Plenty of physical video formats have hit the mainstream over the years and decades - here are the most popular ones, ranked.

With the release of the PlayStation 3 and other HD players some people have already made their choice, but it's still too early to predict an outright winner. Not the least of all because Paramount ...

LOS ANGELES — Blockbuster will rent high-definition DVDs only in the Blu-ray format in 1,450 stores when it expands its high-def offerings in July, dealing a major blow to the rival HD DVD format. The ...

The Mini Blu-ray Disc format is an optical disc standard that deserves some post-mortem recognition for its compactness.

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Licensing to Begin for BD-ROM, BD-R and BD-RE Las Vegas– January 5, 2006 — The Blu-ray Disc Association announced today that the format specification is complete and that licensing is ready to begin ...

PALO ALTO, Calif. and AUSTIN, Texas, September 29 - Worldwide computer leaders and Blu-ray Disc Association members, Dell, and Hewlett Packard, today addressed the inaccurate information cited by ...

Now that Blu-ray has taken the apparent lead in the format war with Warner’s pending defection, things may finally get ugly. Remember that business about the incomplete Blu-ray specifications, ...

The BluRay disc format has made up for HD-DVDs early sales lead, exceeding the number of HD-DVD discs sold last month for the first time. Of course, as always, the stastistics are maddeningly short on ...

Sir Ridley Scott’s Alien is 40 years old this year. So naturally 20th Century Fox is celebrating this anniversary of one of cinema’s most celebrated films like any self-respecting film studio would: ...

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The format war. Over the last few decades it has played out across various forms of tech — AC vs. DC, VHS vs. Beta — usually with fierce battle lines drawn and millions, or even billions, of dollars ...