The centrepiece of Toshiba's stand at IFA 2006 was the area promoting HD DVD. Toshiba announced the European launch dates and pricing for two players, the mainstream HD-E1 and the high-end HD-XE1.

Toshiba has introduced the first laptop capable of playing next-generation, high-definition DVDs. The Qosmio G35-AV650 supports the HD DVD format, which Toshiba helped develop, and also plays standard ...

The Qosmio G35-AV650 is also quite special. It's the first notebook computer to incorporate an HD DVD-ROM Drive. The drive will play ordinary DVD movies, and it will also play HD DVD movies, of which ...

When the first high-definition DVDs finally hit shelves this spring, a mad scramble may ensue--not for the discs themselves, but to figure out what computers and devices are actually able to play them ...

So the high-definition DVD war’s over, and to the victor go the spoils. Now that Sony’s Blu-ray Disc DVD format has beat out Toshiba’s HD DVD , the question arises: Just what spoils are there? Many ...

Broadcom Corp. could help PC and DVD manufacturers sidestep the choice between two high-definition recording standards with a chip that can decode signals recorded in either format. The chip company ...

While high-definition DVD technology has been in the market for a year now, consumers have yet to fully embrace the technology, which promises better viewing resolution and additional features; two ...

MADISON, Wis. — After months of intense wrangling between the competing Blu-ray and HD-DVD groups, the battle lines in the war over a next-generation high-definition DVD format have moved to the ...

EC: Exclusive deals between movie studios and backers of HD DVD, Blu-ray Disc formats may be a sign of anticompetitive activity The European Union’s antitrust regulator has asked Hollywood studios to ...