A majority of U.S. households now know what a Blu-ray Disc is, while the number of households with a high-definition disc player has crossed the 10 million threshold, a new study shows. By Thomas K.

In early 2006, two new high-definition videodisc formats, HD DVD and Blu-ray Disc, are expected to begin vying for the attention of consumers in an effort to replace current DVD as the future standard ...

Blu-ray Disc may have beaten out HD DVD as the high-definition optical disc format to replace DVDs, but it now faces a new test against Internet downloads, market researchers Gartner and iSuppli said.

Two decades after its splashy debut at CES, Blu-ray is still spinning in living rooms, even as streaming dominates the way ...

After months of spear shaking on both sides, the first skirmishes in the high-definition disc format wars have begun. In early May, I looked at Toshibas chosen format, HD DVD. Today, I present the ...

Warner Bros. gave its dual-format high-definition disc, called Total Hi Def (THD), a formal sendoff at International CES. Several days prior to the show, Warner Bros. announced plans to begin ...

SHANGHAI -- The Blu-ray/HD-DVD war is over, right? Maybe not in China. Shanghai United Optical Disc said Tuesday that it has completed the first production line for China Blue High-definition Disc. By ...

The next generation high definition disc format is still being battled out in homes across the world, but are we yelling in the wrong argument? Could digital delivery steal the spotlight? News has ...

At Twentieth Century Fox Studios on November 29, the Blu-ray Disc Association (BDA) gave an update on their blue laser technology. BDA felt that it was time to highlight its progress in bringing ?the ...

Port Washington, N.Y. — Among those who currently own HDTVs, 52 percent are familiar with the availability of high-definition DVD players, but only 11 percent expressed strong intentions to buy one in ...

The Walt Disney Co. and its Buena Vista Home Entertainment division have thrown their support behind the Blu-ray high-definition disc format, providing another big name for Blu-ray backers to attach ...