It was 20 years ago this month that consumer electronics companies Sony and Toshiba launched a new home video format called Digital Video Disc, or DVD. The format promised a four-fold increase in ...

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Movie buffs, brace yourselves for another round of Betamax versus VHS. Two decades after the competing video formats battled for space in American living rooms, a new war is looming between two ...

Forget about high-def DVDs. Standard-definition DVDs are losing ground in the U.S., thanks to the Internet and studio complacency. If movies on disc will remain relevant, the film industry needs to ...

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - In the wake of Toshiba's formal surrender in the next-generation DVD format war, Universal Studios Home Entertainment said Tuesday that it will begin releasing ...

Microsoft has decided to support one of two competing formats for popular DVD recording technology, a decision that is intended to make the storage devices as easy to use as current CD burners and ...

Microsoft is taking a more active role in developing one of the formats in the heated DVD rewritable debate. The DVD+RW Alliance announced late Monday that Microsoft had joined its ranks, adding that ...

It's a dirty little secret that's not all that dirty (or secretive) for those who follow technology trends. The porn, or "adult industry" — to use today's preferred nomenclature — tends to serve as ...

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I recently purchased a DVD drive and I've been playing around with ripping and encoding my DVDs. I'm trying to determine the best format, bitrate, etc. for storing the files. So far I've tried ...

Nero InfoTool can give us a quick reference screen showing the various reading and writing capabilities of CD and DVD drives. We've taken screenshots that show the various disc formats that are ...