Format Wars: Strange Bedfellows

October 5, 2006

To the uninitiated Blu-ray and HD DVD may seem like oil and water and while that may be true from a compatibility standpoint, don’t think for one second manufacturer allegiances to one format over the other preclude companies from working with the competing format.
Exhibit One: the ‘Toshiba Samsung Storage Technology Corporation’ a joint venture between [...]

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HD Audio, the Second Go-Round

September 28, 2006

A funny thing happened about six years ago, two audio formats were introduced that offered superior sound to the compact disc; what’s funny about this you ask? by and large no one cared. But that’s not to say that all of us ignored SACD and DVD-A, however if anyone was looking for an excuse the [...]

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Faulty Logic with Dual-Format Discs

September 20, 2006

I can’t help but think the news reports of Warner Brothers filing a patent for a dual-format Blu-ray - HD DVD disc, or “multilayer dual optical disk” as its referred to in the patent, missed the big picture.(pun) Dual format discs won’t solve the format war.
The very notion the existence of a

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Warner Bros. Little Secret in the Format War

September 3, 2006

It’s amazing the kind of things you can stumble upon while looking at old quotes for references in future articles. For example let’s say you were trying to get some background information on how the studios arrived at which format(s) to support.
Google being the vast resource of current and archived information it is, provides you [...]

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Lite-On announces HD DVD Player

August 29, 2006

I first heard mention of Lite-On working on a HD DVD (and Blu-ray) player several weeks ago but without firm

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The High Definition DVD Advertising Blitz

August 24, 2006

Recently I ran across an article by Craig Birkmaier over at Broadcast Engineering that really struck a lot of good points. Craig rightfully

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Format Wars: The First Six Weeks

August 16, 2006

File this one under the no-real-shocker heading but some retailers are already reporting that in the first six weeks HD DVD and Blu-ray were available to consumers, neither set any new sales records. It’s a bit odd to even report on what everyone and their brother predicted as a given but there are some interesting [...]

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Widescreen Review & Joe Kane on Blu-ray

August 15, 2006

In the latest Widescreen Review

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Format Wars: A Different Perspective

August 1, 2006

You know where I stand on Blu-ray and HD DVD, we can even see what other consumers

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Format Wars: Fox Bullish On DVD and Blu-ray

July 28, 2006

Fox Home Entertainment’s Worldwide President, Mike Dunn recently spoke with Home Media Retailing on a variety of entertainment mediums but of course his comments on Blu-ray were what I found most interesting.
The in-depth

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