More HD DVD Announcements

January 8, 2007

Ok, I’ve already reached information overload and

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HD DVD: Video Interview with Kevin Collins

December 20, 2006

Last September I had the pleasure of interviewing Kevin Collins, director of “HD DVD Evangelism” at Microsoft. The interview was lengthy to say the least but if your interested in the cliff notes, Kevin was interviewed last week during a pit-stop of the HD DVD Mobile Experience tour in Redmond Washington. (home of Microsoft)

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Toshiba’s HD-A2: First Impressions

December 11, 2006

Earlier today I was able to spend about 2 hours with Toshiba’s second-generation HD DVD player, the HD-A2. Of course this is by no means a full review (full review forthcoming) but I did want to give a few quick thoughts as I felt the improvements over the HD-A1 were notable.
First off the new player [...]

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Planning on Buying a HD DVD Player?

October 26, 2006

If you’ve been eyeing a deal on a Toshiba HD-A1, HD-XA2 or even if you’ve been holding out for Toshiba’s soon to be released HD-A2, you might want to hold out a few more days, 5 to be exact. If you purchase a HD-A1, HD-XA1, HD-D1, HD-A2, HD-A2W, HD-XA2 or HD-D2 between November 1st and [...]

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Xbox 360 HD DVD Add-On Details

September 27, 2006

We finally know the asking price for the Xbox 360 HD DVD add-on, the drive will

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Interview: Microsoft’s Kevin Collins on HD DVD

September 26, 2006

Last Wednesday I had the opportunity to sit down with Kevin Collins to discuss everything HD DVD, at least I think he was sitting; I was three time-zones away.
Kevin Collins is a director in the Microsoft Consumer Media Technology Group, focusing on Microsoft’s role in the DVD Forum around HD DVD and all aspects of [...]

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Interview: Microsoft’s Kevin Collins on HD DVD (Part 2)

Continuation of our interview with Microsoft’s Kevin Collins on HD DVD. Read part one of the interview.
HTB: From there something maybe a little bit more somber, not quite as happy on all fronts but I do know a lot of my readers are interested in pre-recorded high definition content, without question. The problem is obviously [...]

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Toshiba Announces New HD DVD Players

September 14, 2006

As expected Toshiba announced their second generation HD DVD players today at CEDIA in Denver, and with one fell swoop addressed several of the complaints from early adopters of first generation HD DVD players. First up the Toshiba HD-A2:

•720p/1080i
•HDMI 1.2a
•Improved Load Times (Said To Be Half the Current Load Times)
•Support for Lossless Dolby TrueHD and [...]

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Toshiba Announces HD-E1,HD-XE1 HD DVD Players for Europe

August 31, 2006


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Toshiba Moving Forward on 45GB HD DVD Discs

I have to say this bit of news took me by surprise, I assumed Toshiba had relegated their 45GB discs to the PC world and were firmly entrenched in the idea that 30GB’s would become their maximum capacity for pre-recorded HD DVD content, not according to Jim Armour of Toshiba.
DVD Times was lucky enough to [...]

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