Covering home audio and video, Matthew Moskovciak helps CNET readers find the best sights and sounds for their home theaters. Before yesterday's firmware update, the PlayStation 3 couldn't upscale ...

On the surface, the U.S. sales figures from the first several days of this current holiday season are looking way up for HD DVD proponents, who captured slightly more than 60 percent of the next-gen ...

The folks at Ars Technica have made an interesting discovery. Apparently, Sony’s PS3 does a better job of playing scratched up DVDs than the Xbox 360, which spits them out the minute it notices any ...

Covering home audio and video, Matthew Moskovciak helps CNET readers find the best sights and sounds for their home theaters. With its new $300 price tag, the PS3 Slim has been selling like crazy, and ...

The format war. Over the last few decades it has played out across various forms of tech -- AC vs. DC, VHS vs. Beta -- usually with fierce battle lines drawn and millions, or even billions, of dollars ...

Blu-ray DVD drive no bonus for some PS3 buyers Gamers love Sony Corp.'s new PlayStation 3 for its graphic capabilities and firepower, but the advanced Blu-ray DVD drive is annoying some by raising the ...

With the launch of the PlayStation 3, Sony is playing not just for the gaming console crown but for the future of home entertainment itself, in the shape of the next generation of DVDs. But can it ...

The PlayStation 3 is and will forever be regarded as the best Blu-ray player available. That's right, we said it. Say what you will about how the system racks up against other game consoles, but it is ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. One of the biggest “ifs” in the next-gen disc war is merely a game. A game console, to be exact.