Study Shows Technology Company Support, Capacity and Ability to Play Discs Across More Brand-Name Players, Computers, and Gaming Machines Drive Preference HOLLYWOOD, July 13, 2005 – A new poll ...

Combined disc sales for the two formats neared the 1.2 million mark for the first quarter, breaking out into 832,530 Blu-ray titles and 359,300 HD DVD titles.

Early holiday sales data from Nielsen VideoScan indicates more than 72 percent of next-gen discs purchased by consumers were the Blu-ray Disc format. It’s unclear exactly what content the “discs” ...

According to published reports, a shortage of blue laser diodes at various optical disc drive (ODD) manufacturing plants is not likely to markedly ease in coming months, which could result in delaying ...

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.

Expectations vary from 20 to 100 years for these discs.” The scourge of “disc rot” Blu-rays and other optical discs are made out of polycarbonate substrate, otherwise known as plastic.

In this side-by-side format comparison, 58% of the 1200 consumers surveyed preferred Blu-ray Disc, 26% were undecided and only 16% preferred HD-DVD. Of those consumers who indicated that they are ...