If current schedules hold, the battle will not begin at least until later this year, and won't start to impact most supermarket customers until hardware prices come down to mass market levels, which ...

LAS VEGAS — It was supposed to be the grand unveiling of a new generation in home entertainment when Kevin Collins of Microsoft Corp. popped an HD DVD disc into a Toshiba production model and hit ...

TOKYO -- A format war is brewing between two competing successors to DVD. In late November, four major studios -- Universal, Paramount, Warner and New Line -- said they would endorse the HD DVD format ...

Sony 360 Reality Audio vs. Dolby Atmos Music may seem like a kinder, gentler format war. But it's part of a broader competition involving MPEG-H 3D Audio for the music & digital broadcast TV markets.| ...

For Blu-ray, the format war has turned into one of those epic quests you see in badly dubbed martial arts movies. Sure, its kung fu was too good for rival HD DVD to overcome. But hold on to those ...

You may have thought stupid format wars were over. You thought wrong! This week brings the first saleable “China Blue” players—a rival to Blu-ray. My guess on the rationale? Players made of heroin.

The current decade has seen a surround-music revival through new digital technologies and Dolby Atmos Music isn't the only game in town. Sony's 360 Reality Audio (360RA) is a growing new format ...