For a brief period of time, optical discs were being produced with readable data on both sides - here's why they never gained ...
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 ...
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 ...
One standard outlasted the other, but initially, the more unpopular one had a few neat advantages.
Chances looked slim that consumers will be spared a DVD format war, as the backers of one standard said Sept. 2 there was no common ground for a unified format and it was on track for a market launch… ...
Everyone loves DVD. Most big-screen TVs sold nowadays are HDTVs. So you?d think a high-definition version of the DVD format would a natural­splashing a sharper and more detailed picture onto a screen ...