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With the high definition format war officially over, you might be thinking about getting a new Blu-Ray player to go with your new HD TV. While it's true that Blu-Ray has trounced HD DVD and relegated the latter to the annals of loosing formats such as Betamax.

HD-DVD may be dead, but it lives on in DVD upconversion!

Microsoft's Neil Thompson has reiterated that the company is focused on making digital downloads the future of video entertainment.

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a few weeks old but still a good read...

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Whenever a war comes to an end, the winning party has only one thing left to do: turn their guns on each other. During the battle between HD-DVD and Blu-Ray, companies that formed the Blu-Ray disc association fought hard together to earn victory in this HD battle. After achieving this not so easy feat, our emails and mail boxes have been bombarded

Thats what I thought of this movie the end. Picture quality is very nice. Will work on an Xbox 360 HD DVD player.

UK boss Thompson downplays significance of HD-DVD failure, saying digital distribution is the right horse to back

Very interesting C|net article about the future of mobile music downloads, and how we might see an HD-DVD/BD-style format war if standards aren't decided upon now.

George Clooney takes on the early days of professional football in the screwball comedy Leatherheads. Wong Kar Wai takes a trip to America with Norah Jones in the sensual My Blueberry Nights. And The Rolling Stones recruit Martin ...

Anime Talk Ok, so the anime market is still kind of quiet and there haven't been too many exciting announcements. There is still plenty of great anime on the market that deserves to be checked out. Shows like Speed Grapher, Moon Phase, ...

As the rumors start poring out that Lite-On will be manufacturing the Blu-Ray drives for Microsoft's Xbox 360, it's becoming clear that in order to keep the price down to where people will adopt the new drive (especially after getting burned on the HD-DVD one...), Microsoft will likely have to sell it at a loss.

Article about the reason why Sony wins against Toshiba on HD Video competition

HD-DVD and Blu-ray aren't the only HD disc formats out there; there's a handful of alternative formats (mostly based on red lasers) that have tried, or are still trying to get a space on that home entertainment shelf.

There Will Be Blood This week the DVD Talk Review Database has some great new entries, including some discs you may have overlooked. Recent DVD Reviews include: There Will Be Blood: 2-Disc Collector's Edition - one of 2007's finest ...

Blast of Silence This week the DVD Savant has a number of new reviews including: Blast of Silence - Allen Baron's 1961 obscurity gets the jump on existential mob movies by several years, introducing a touch of art-movie poetics to a ...

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Microsoft JUST announced that, starting August 18th, they will no longer ship the 360 with the HD-DVD player, instead they will be bundled with a Blu-Ray player, all systems will cost 75$ more.They also announced that people with a 360 can send it in and have the HD-DVD player replaced for Blu-Ray for an extra charge of 50$. Click for press release

The Chinese company "Pri Laneo" has announced in a press release that they acquired intellectual property licenses to all relevant patents and technologies that are required for creating HD DVD media as well as for HD DVD hardware. Retail prices for the first stand alone HD DVD players are expected to be about 770 yuan ($130).

First, HD-DVD died. Then, Steve "Monkey Boy" Ballmer confirmed that Microsoft would support Blu-ray in "ways that make sense." One day later, Stan Glasgow, Sony Electronics' U.S. president, said his company was already in talks with both Microsoft and Apple about adding Blu-ray drives to their hardware.

HD DVD is long dead, but we shouldn’t assume that means Blu-ray is the ultimate winner. In fact, it could already be nearing its end, being beaten by a combination of DVDs and digital downloads.

HDV & HD-DVD - remember those formats? Seems like only yesterday people couldn’t tell the difference between VHS and Beta, but the networks saw that difference and set the broadcast standards. It's no different today, the bar is higher than what HDV can deliver. Did HD-DVD totally suck? Not at all...

According to the young lady at the walmart customer service, They will take back Hd-DVD players they sold from Nov 1st 07 to whenever it was Walmart stopped carrying them. So if you have the following, I believe you can get your money back. 1. Receipt2. UPC code (from the box) If you sent it in to Toshiba Microsoft for the free movies

Sweeney Todd Another banner week for DVDs with the studios releasing some great films and boxed sets such as: Sweeney Todd [review] - an artistic leap forward for director Tim Burton and also happens to be one of the best film musicals ...

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There Will be Blood This week we have a very special giveaway from Paramount Home Entertainment for There Will be Blood: 2 Disc Collector's Edition. Directed and adapted for the screen by Paul Thomas Anderson, the film has not only been ...

As part of a cross-licensing agreement with Microsoft, the latest PS3 firmware update now allows the PS3 Blu-ray drive to read HD DVD discs, complete with the HDi interactivity layer. In the other part of the cross-licensing agreement, the Xbox 360 will now come with a Blu-ray drive built-in. A new improved calendar is also included.

HP gives a face wash to the Pavilion, and this time wager on the option by adding high definition Blu-Ray, and thus completely ignoring the episode of HD-DVD. The models presented are the Pavilion dv2800, dv6800 and the dv9800, 14.1, 15.4 and 17 inches, respectively.

Is Toshiba's move to abandon HD-DVD in swiftly cut its losses unethical? What is the extent of its responsibility to customers who bought its HD-DVD player? Should HD-DVD owners file a Class Action Lawsuit?

Betamax and HD-DVD are like a match literally made in heaven (you know, that place you go when you die?), and now you can get a slice for yourself. Featuring simple one-touch record between either format, your media has never felt less obsolete!

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After the HD DVD format was declared dead, Microsoft's Steve Ballmer hinted that they might be including Blu-ray support in the Xbox 360.Industry pundits starting wondering whether they would produce a Blu-ray add-on for the gaming machine or if they would produce a new Blu-ray complaint Xbox 360 system altogether. As it turns out...

The Xbox 360's video marketplace enjoys a wide variety of television shows and movies available for users to buy or rent, and Microsoft has been holding firm in its strategy to stick with digital distribution in the face of HD DVD's untimely death at the hands of Blu-ray. Another aspect of this strategy has been revealed, as the video marketplac...

Blu-Ray wins; 360 owners blue they aren’t blu.

LG has released its external Combo-drive; the BE06LU10 is a Blu-ray rewriter & HD DVD-ROM. With the ability to read & write Blu-ray & read HD DVD at 6x. LG’s BE06LU10 is ideal for the home or office, as users can back-up a large number of files, such as photos or company documents, quickly and easily.

Last one out, turn off the lights.That was essentially the tone of the note that the HD DVD Promotional Group sent to its members Friday. The obituary for the format was short and to the point:

The Satellite A200-1WL Toshiba is a laptop with both compact and efficient. Equipped with an Intel Core 2 Duo, 2 GB of RAM expandable to 4 GB, graphics quality, an optical drive compatible HD DVD and a 1.3 Megapixel camera, you will appreciate the versatility of your A200: video games, or multimedia communication, anything goes!

LG Electronics announced an addition to its industry leading optical storage range with its external Blu-ray rewriter and HD DVD-ROM, the LG BE06LU10. With the ability to read and write Blu-ray and read HD DVD at 6x, the BE06LU10 offers users a quick portable option for data storage

The latest labor of love is one ApriPoko, an 11-inch-tall talking robot developed by the researchers at Toshiba as a voice-activated universal remote control. Is THIS what Toshiba's been working on after the HD DVD demise?!

Believe it or not, yes – there is. Designed as a low-cost competitor to HD DVD and Blu-ray, comes HD-VMD (HiDef Versatile Multilayer Disc). Designed by New Media Enterprises, this budding rival in the format wars is designed to give a low budget option for high definition with players shipping at a cost less than the lowest priced...

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Best Buy rids itself of HD DVDAlthough Best Buy ran sales for HD DVD, at one point 30 percent off on all stock, it appears that the format’s run at the big box retailer is officially at an end.

With the Blu-ray vs. HD-DVD format war over, Blu-ray disc sales are starting to have an impact on overall DVD sales.

In February, 2008 the HD-DVD VS Blu-ray Disc war ended. Blu-ray won. Best Buy is offering relief for HD-DVD buyers.

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The HD DVD Promo group was dissolved today, its ashes scattered on the Island of Dead Formats. After a moment of silence, make your way to Best Buy to claim your $50 and trade in your obsolete plastic—or soak up the cheap HD goodness—if you haven't already.

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The HD DVD promotion group no longer exists, some six weeks after Toshiba announced that it was to throw in the towel in the next-generation disc format race. So it's time to say your goodbyes to the talkers from the HD DVD group once and for all!

The HD DVD Promotional Group has followed in Toshiba's footsteps and stopped all activities as of March 28th, 2008, including shutting down the website.

"Well, it's no surprise that it was going to happen, but the HD DVD Promotion Group officially dissolved today"

Las Vegas receives a gigantic wet willy from a group of MIT students in the slick gambling drama 21. David Schwimmer directs Simon Pegg in the silly underdog comedy Run Fatboy Run. And American soldiers fighting in Iraq face a ...

I picked up a BD-UP5000 when limited quantities appeared in mid December 2007 and have been quite happy with the unit. It's my first venture into HD disc playback and having a single box to play all DVD formats was essential. This player delivers excellent picture and sound quality (including exceptional SD DVD upscaling).

This Blu-ray & HD DVD Combo Drive is the company’s first external optical disk drive and it supports both read/write Blu-ray and read HD DVD formats.

It appears that Best Buy is not giving HD DVD owners a chance to pickup movies at cheap prices. Best Buy has moved to return all unsold HD DVD software this week and has expanded its Blu-ray Disc merchandising at the same time.

SlySoft, the vendor of DRM hacks located on the legally untouchable Caribbean island of Antigua, last week released an enhancement to its AnyDVD HD program that purports to crack the encryption of Blu-ray discs. The original AnyDVD HD cracked the AACS encryption used on HD DVD discs.

Toshiba has lost the race for HD DVD technology, but they still have big plans for the future. Find out what those plans are! Good read.

good for you. The lesson of how vhs made Betamax obsolete in the '80s is still part of your folk memory, so you didn't buy a Blu-ray or hd dvd player last December. As a video refusenik, unsure which format would win the dvd wars, you demonstrated a sophisticated appreciation of product obsolescence and decided not to buy a new device bljfkd

Noteworthy new Releases on DVD/Blu-Ray are slim this week but noteworthy they are. Something I found most unexpected in new video releases this week is the fact that there are STILL titles being released on HD-DVD!

Laurie Fincham, Chief Scientist at THX , made a remarkable statement about the future of HD discs, especially about Blu-ray's chances to become a dominant format of the future. After the death of HD DVD UK based Home Cinema Choice Magazine asked him for a comment.

Last week, SlySoft announced that it had definitively cracked the extra layer of DRM (BD+) that helped make Blu-ray more popular with the studios than HD DVD. SlySoft originally announced that it had defeated BD+ this past November, with a beta of AnyDVD HD able to bypass BD+ on some Blu-ray titles.

Last week, SlySoft announced that they had cracked the extra DRM that had made Blu-ray more popular with the studios than HD DVD. The company announced that the new version of AnyDVD HD will allow users to make “backup copies” of Blu-ray discs that use BD+. It begs the question, why did they bother putting copy protection on there anyway?

The Blu-ray Disc victory in its recent format war with HD-DVD will propel this BD technology into 29.4 million homes worldwide by the end of 2008 according to Strategy Analytics

I've come to the conclusion that people really like their physical media...whether that's a HD DVD, Blu-Ray or DVD. Microsoft seems to be putting all of their eggs in one basket by poo-pooing Blu-ray on the Xbox 360 and going strictly with Xbox Live downloads. I've said all along, people still like to hold something in their hands

Ice Storm This week the DVD Savant has a number of new reviews including: The Ice Storm - Ang Lee's foray into darkest Americana, an overly significant, rather overbaked look at the psychic fallout from the permissiveness of the 70s ...

Fengtao Software has released a new version of their DVDFab HD Decrypter; version 4.1.2.0. With this tool it's possible to backup HD DVD, Blu-ray, or DVD discs. This release contains some fixes & new language files.

Slysoft has released a high resolution signal optimised version of their AnyDVD anti copy protection software. The new version with the description “HD” should be able to circumvent both the protection on HD-DVD and Blu-ray discs. The programme can even crack the new BD± copy protection for Blu-ray discs.

After Toshiba discontinued HD-DVD and Blu-ray became the triumphant, new functions are flowing in for the user. Among others, we can expect video and ring tone downloads, as well as films based on interactive games. The Blu-ray 2.0 specification, also known as BD-Live, should make it possible.

Thoughts, bot funny and well thought out, as to why HD-DVD died and whether or not Blu-Ray is a good replacement. The future of High Definition home entertainment... and more reasons why Michael Bay is a douchey sucker of cock.

With HD DVD done and dusted, you'd think Sony would have time to chill out, max and relax. Nope! The U.S. government is investigating Sony and other companies that developed Blu-ray for patent infringement.

Netflix told Reuters today that it's been surveying its subscribers about interest in streaming movies using the Xbox 360. Microsoft please gives us something since the HD-DVD didn't pan out.

Bonnie and Clyde There are some great DVDs coming out this week including: Bonnie and Clyde: Ultimate Collector's Edition [review] - The first time this film has really gotten its due in the digital age, it's packaged in a handy box ...

HD DVD joins these other rejected formats.

Plextor LLC today announced two new multifunction disc drives that combine next-generation Blu-Ray and HD DVD technologies, the PX-B920SA and PX-B300SA

Plextor heeft een twee nieuwe interne Blu-ray drive met SATA-interface aangekondigd, de PX-B920SA en de PX-B300SA. Beide drives kunnen ook met HD DVD overweg

Exciting news if you bought your HD DVD player from Best Buy...we're offering you a complimentary $50 Best Buy gift card for each HD DVD player you purchased from Best Buy.

Circuit City to offer 50% OFF discount on ALL HD DVD ( aka HD-DVD ) starting March 30th!!!Visit our site for details!!!!

Toshiba has said the decision to stop making high definition DVD players will cost the company 65bn yen ($666m; £330m) and hit its profits for 2007.

Seems as though BestBuy is pulling the remaining HD DVD stock from all their stores according to this company memo

I'm certainly not the first one to analogize battles over technology to battles over the leader of the free world. There have been many over the past few months. Some of my favorite are this analogy to Apple using the classic "1984" Macintosh ad and this analogy to the console wars. Heck, I'm not even the first one to analogize Hillary to HD-DVD.

Best Buy today said that it will be sending out $50 gift cards to apparently more than 200,000 of its U.S. customers who purchased HD DVD players and Xbox 360 HD DVD units before February 23 of this year.

Plextor LLC, a leading developer and manufacturer of high-performance digital media equipment, today announced two new multifunction disc drives that combine next-generation Blu-Ray and HD DVD technologies.

Sweeney Todd This week the DVD Talk Review Database has some great new entries, including some discs you may have overlooked. Recent DVD Reviews include: Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber Of Fleet Street - 2 Disc Special Edition - an ...

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Microsoft has a lot to celebrate at the moment: while it was looking like Sony had gained the upper hand in the early part of the year, beating back HD DVD and such, Microsoft countered with a punishing price slash - a move that reportedly boosted sales by 40%.

StarBurn is a powerful tool for grabbing, burning and mastering CD, DVD, Blu-Ray and HD-DVD media. StarBurn supports all types of optical storage media (including CD-R/RW, DVD-R/RW, DVD+R/RW, BD-R/RE, HD-DVD-R/RW and DVD-RAM) as well as a wide variety of burning hardware.

Earlier this week Best Buy announced that it would offer $50 gift cards to any of its customers that purchased HD DVD players. Apparently Amazon wanted in on the good PR and has come up with its own way to hook up its HD DVD customers. Here’s the deal from Amazon for “valued HD DVD customers.”

With HD DVD officially dead, multiple retailers are reaching out to soften the loss for early adopters, and maybe entice them back into the store. Ars tells you who's offering the trade-ins and how to take advantage.

Here's another reason you want to be especially wary of unsourced chatter on the Internet. First, you may have encountered certain persons (PR plants in disguise? Is that too paranoid?) claiming HD DVD wasn't going anywhere in the wake of the format's early 2008 studio sponsorship meltdown. Of course it now seems that even the people suggesting

Just seen the news that Blu-Ray has won the high definition DVD war. Now we can all go out and buy Blu-Ray, and forget about HD DVD!

It's possible (although a little cumbersome) to play HD DVD and Blu-Ray films under Ubuntu 7.04 Feisty Fawn.

Microsoft stepped up to deliver iHD (later renamed HDi), which was a trademarked implementation of HD DVD's XML markup language. All of HDi's interactive bells and whistles could theoretically be applied to downloadable video content, as long as a runtime environment was available. Microsoft can run HDi on both their xbox 360 and windows vista.

Brilliant job of subtitling (is that a verb?).

With consumer apathy at its' highest how long will it be before Blu-ray's fanciful name is derived to nothing more than HD DVD, the now-dead format that fought against Blu-ray for domination of DVD empire? After all, isn't a Blu-ray really just a DVD with HD content on it? I am sure it is as far as most consumers care.

$50 rebate for people that bought HD DVD players from best buy.

Average retail prices of the entry-level HD DVD player price saw a big drop on Thursday and first stores are selling the HD-A3 for less than $60. Fewer stores are carrying HD DVD players every day.

Jimmy Xue from xuecast.com writes : "Almost one million HD-DVD players were sold just before Toshiba pulled the plug on HD-DVD after losing support from the few movie studios and major retailers that had stayed with the HD-DVD camp when many others fled to Blu-ray. What could have saved HD-DVD? many might have wondered, well I think that

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Toshiba has said the decision to stop making high definition DVD players will cost the company 65bn yen ($666m; £330m) and hit its profits for 2007.

Best Buy is giving $50 gift cards to most people who purchased hd-dvd players before February 23rd. This doesn't include players that play blu-ray as well.

BestBuy giving away consolation money to please HD-DVD owners.If you don't want to keep your HD-DVD player you have two options from Best Buy - 1) If you bought the player from them before Feb'23'2008 then you can exchange it for $50 of the store credit card.2) If you didn't buy from them then they have some trade-in program.

With Blu-ray declaring victory over HD DVD in the high definition movie format war, Best Buy, the nation's largest consumer electronics retailer, is giving $50 gift cards to customers who purchased an HD DVD player or HD DVD attachment from its U.S. stores before February 23, 2008.

Exciting news if you bought your HD DVD player from Best BuyAs the owner of an HD DVD player, you may have concerns about these developments. At Best Buy, we are dedicated to making sure you always have the right technology for you. That's why we're offering you a complimentary $50 Best Buy gift card for each HD DVD player you purchased from us.

If you bought your Toshiba HD-DVD player or Xbox 360 add on player before 2/23, you may be eligible to receive a $50 gift card and you don't even have to turn in your player! Most qualifying customers will receive their GC automatically. Great news for those who sold theirs on ebay as soon as they could.

Best Buy Stands Behind Customers By Awarding More Than $10 Million in Gift Cards to HD-DVD PurchasersLeading Consumer Electronics Retailer will Send $50 Gift Cards to Customers Who Purchased an HD-DVD Player from Best Buy in the U.S.

...from Best Buy. Put aside your hate and recognize when a corporation does something good.

Electronics retailer Best Buy Co. said Wednesday it will give gift cards to customers that bought HD-DVD players or HD-DVD attachments from its U.S. stores as the format goes away in favor of the Blu-ray standard.

If you bought an HD-DVD player or accessory from Best Buy before Feb. 23, they'll give you a $50 gift card for each player and accessory purchased. Not enough to cover the complete purchase, but at least it's some form of good will.

Electronics retailer Best Buy Co. said Wednesday it will give gift cards to customers that bought HD-DVD players or HD-DVD attachments from its U.S. stores as the format goes away in favor of the Blu-ray standard.

Best Buy said it will distribute $50 gift cards to cutomers who purcahsed a HD_DVD player prior to Feb 23. Customers can begin trading in their HD-DVD players on their online trade-in center starting 3/21.

Okay, so they're a little late to the party, but better late than never. Best Buy is doing a little something-something for all those HD-DVD owners who got left without a chair when the music stopped, and it even looks like they're trying to one-up Circuit City's already-cool return policy.

Best Buy is giving a $50 gift card for anyone who has purchased a Toshiba HD-DVD player from November 2006 - Feb 23rd 2008!!You are eligible for a $50 gift card for each player you purchased withing the qualifying period.

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According to EngadgetHD, the latest version of the popular WinDVD 9 Plus Blu-ray (it actually supports HD DVD as well) has finally updated support for the latest audio codecs Blu-ray has available, namely TrueHD and DTS-HD. Also improved in the update is support for BonusView and the HD video camera Codec, AVCHD.

Best Buy, in an apparent act of good will is giving a $50 gift card to any poor shmo who bought an HD DVD player at their store or website. They're coughing up $10 mill of the things - not really clear on the "why".

"By surrendering to Sony-backed Blu-ray last month, Toshiba-led proponents of HD DVD left player owners holding devices reduced to playing standard DVDs. To make amends, Best Buy plans to distribute more than $10 million in gift cards to people who bought players from the retailer before Feb. 23."

Both stores this month announced they'll accept HD DVD player returns or give out gift cards.

Best Buy is offering a $50 gift card to customers who purchased an HD-DVD player after the format lost out to rival Blu-ray as the dominant technology for high-definition DVDs.

Electronics retailer Best Buy says it will give gift cards to buyers of HD-DVD players or HD-DVD attachments from its U.S. stores as the format goes away in favor of Blu-ray.

Get a complimentary $50 Best Buy gift card for each HD DVD player you purchased from Best Buy before February 23, 2008.Also, beginning March 21, visit BestBuyTradeIn.com to get an instant estimate of the value of your HD DVD player and movies for trade in.

Are you one of the unfortunates stuck with a now useless HD-DVD player? Did you purchase it at Best Buy before February 23rd? If you answered yes to both of these questions, you can return that old door stop to Best Buy and get a $50 gift card in return.

Feeling like the village idiot for springing last year for the late HD DVD? Fear not. Best Buy is here to help, and they are willing to give you some spending power in exchange for you old crap.

The high-definition-video war may be over now that Toshiba has conceded defeat for its ailing HD DVD format, but those interested in buying a high-def Blu-ray player still might want to wait for new features coming in the fall.

Best Buy is giving $50 to anyone who bought an HD DVD player from Best Buy before February 23. Best Buy also plans to offer trade-ins for players and HD DVD movies, regardless of where they were purchased, through its online trade-in center. An example given shows a trade-in value of $54 for player with 6 movies.

When people go to Vegas they expect to do a lot of betting and they also expect to lose a lot of those bets. But who knew that in the HD DVD vs. Blu-Ray war consumers would be making bets and losing them too? Within all the confusion in the HD DVD vs Blu-Ray world, a lot of us put our money on HD DVD and boys are we paying for it now. We didn%u2019

If you were one of the unfortunate souls who invested in Toshiba's now-defunct HD-DVD high definition disc format -- and you bought your player from Best Buy -- you can now get a consolation prize in the form of a $50 gift certificate.

Best Buy announced today that they will give all of their customers who bought an HDDVD player 50$

For months, there has been much debate surrounding the two competing high-definition video formats: Toshiba's HD DVD and Sony's Blu-ray Disc. Recently, Toshiba announced that they will no longer produce HD DVD players, and movie studios have decided not to release new titles in the HD DVD format.

Apparently, the cost of Best Buy declaring Blu-ray the winner is $10 million—at least, that's how much it plans to give away when it issues a $50 gift card to everyone who bought an HD DVD player or HD DVD Xbox drive before February 23.

Best Buy is stepping it up and giving everyone who bought an HD DVD drive prior to 2/23/08 a free $50 gift card. I would not have expected them to do something as generous as this. Now if only they would put all their HD DVD movies on sale.

On the bad HD-DVD news Toshiba lower their financial forecast 50%

Antigua based software developer SlySoft claims to have cracked the copy protection scheme used by Sony's Blu-Ray discs (BD+). The latest version of SlySoft AnyDVD HD now has the capability to copy and backup copy protected High Definition (HD) movies stored in Blu-Ray or HD-DVD discs.

Toshiba will take a serious but far from fatal blow to its bottom line for its decision to discontinue HD DVD.

DVDFab HD Decrypter is a simple version of DVDFab Platinum. It copies entire DVD movie to hard disk, and removes all the protections (CSS, RC, RCE, APS, UOPs and Sony ARccOS) while copying. It includes full HD-DVD and Blu-Ray support (Removes AACS).

Best Buy is looking to make good with all the unfortunate souls who purchased an HD DVD player or accessory (be it the 360 HD DVD player or another product) before the format was officially declared kaput on February 23, 2008.

Antigua based software developer SlySoft claims to have cracked the copy protection scheme used by Sony’s Blu-Ray discs (BD+). The latest version of SlySoft AnyDVD HD now has the capability to copy and backup copy protected High Definition (HD) movies stored in Blu-Ray or HD-DVD discs.

You want a little $$$ back on the HD-DVD player that you shouldn't have purchased? If you got it at Best Buy, READ THIS!

Best Buy is giving $50 gift cards to its customers who purchased HD DVD players before February 23, 2008.

The format war. It’s over. Done. Break out the blue victory hats and Curaçao, right? Wrong. There won’t be a Blu-ray victory party. Don’t take my word for it? How about Sony Electronics CEO Stan Glasgow’s? “From our perspective, the battle really begins now.” Now that HD DVD is dispatched, the members...

S3 Graphics announced today the U.S. availability of its Chrome 430 GT, the first graphics card from its Chrome 400 Series to reach the market.What's more, it supports DX10.1 and hardware-assisted high-definition playback of Blu-ray and HD DVD content.

HD DVD buyers are getting relief from Best Buy in the form of $50 gift cards if they purchased a HD DVD player before February 23 from the retailer.

This year is shaping up to be a year of technology battles-Microsoft vs. Google, iPhone vs. Android-but just last month, we saw the end to a momentous tech showdown. On Feb. 19, the high-definition disc format war was finally over. And when the dust settled, Toshiba's HD DVD technology lay beaten on the ground-left for dead by its former friends...

You’ve heard of video upscaling in Blu-ray, now-defunct HD DVD and high end DVD players. Enter the Philips GoGear SA52 PMP that does upscaling on the audio front, claiming that its embedded digital signal processor is smart enough to inject quality into compressed audio tracks.

For many people, Sony's oft-maligned PlayStation 3 video game console had one no-doubt-about-it selling point: When it launched, it was by far the cheapest Blu-Ray player on the market. That's no longer true, what with plenty of low-cost players flooding the market now that Blu-Ray has effectively vanquished HD DVD as the next-generation playb

Are my favorites the best choices? They are for me, and after the jump you can read all about why I use an HD DVD machine as my primary disc player as well as how a simple flashlight earns the top spot in my gadget roster. But we'd love to hear from you, too: what are your favorite gadgets and gear?

Profile 2, or BD-Live, makes Blu-ray players capable of downloading content, which I should point out means Blu-ray will now have the same ability that HD DVD players had from day one. Starting at $399, the PS3 is one of the least expensive Blu-ray players around.

Now that the HD DVD format has gone belly up, stranding consumers with a defunct technology, Best Buy wants to make sure that that doesn’t happen to them. To assuage the feelings of the 200,000 customers who purchased HD DVD hardware or drives from a Best Buy store, the company will announce Wednesday that it is giving each buyer a $50 gift card.

Minneapolis (MN) – Best Buy today said that it will be sending out $50 gift cards to apparently more than 200,000 of its U.S. customers who purchased HD DVD players and Xbox 360 HD DVD units before February 23 of this year.