Oct. 3 — Paramount Home Entertainment says it will offer movies on both HD DVD and Blu-ray Disc. Dec. 16 — Hewlett-Packard decides to drop exclusive support for Blu-ray Disc and back both formats.

Blu-ray and HD DVD players can constrain an image down to 960x540 if the signal is going over a component cable -- still better than DVD but nowhere near the full capabilities of Blu-ray/HD DVD.

Here's another punch thrown in the ongoing Blu-ray vs HD-DVD format war. Tomorrow at 8 am, Wal-Mart is offering a "secret sale" of a Toshiba HD A2 HD-DVD player for a rock-bottom price of $98.87 ...

March 10 — Blu-ray Disc-supporter LG Electronics surprises the industry with news that it’s developing an HD DVD drive. March 31 — Toshiba launches the world’s first HD DVD player, the HD-XA1.

A lot of Blu-ray studios pointed me to a Financial Times article today claiming that, thanks to a contract clause, Paramount would drop its support of HD-DVD after Warner Bros’ recent decision ...

LG has announced its second HD DVD/Blu-ray player, following up on its pioneering BH100, which won CNET "Best in Show" award at CES 2007.

Porn industry may be decider in Blu-ray, HD-DVD battle Just as in the 1980s, when the Betamax and VHS video formats were battling it out for supremacy, the pornography industry will likely play a ...

Blu-ray-exclusive studios Sony, Fox and Disney could miss out on $175 million in consumer spending by not publishing their films on HD DVD, though Blu-ray’s stronger sales mean that HD DVD-only ...

In the battle between HD DVD and Blu-ray, HD DVD proponents have been counting on a Holiday 2005 launch to get a leg up on Sony, whose Blu-ray spec isn't expected to materialize before mid-2006.

The HD DVD is now the Highly Dead DVD. Toshiba Corp., creator of the HD DVD, dropped out of the battle Tuesday over the next generation of movie-disc technology and conceded to the rival Blu-ray ...

Among the big hitters in the computing industry, Apple, Dell, Sony (obviously), HP, and Philips (among others) remain committed to Blu-ray. HD DVD's backing is considerably weaker, although ...

Here’s how it works. Findings of a new poll suggest a 4-to-1-consumer preference for the Blu-ray disc over HD-DVD. The poll may also deliver a louder message to proponents of the competing blue-laser ...