Some companies simply don’t forget about VHS: Toshiba Japan announced [JP] the D-BW500 today, which essentially is a Blu-ray /DVD and VHS recorder plus a 320GB hard disc rolled into one. The Swiss ...

Which DVD-VCR combo is best? DVD-VCR combos are getting harder to come by, but you can still find them at a handful of retailers. Still, they’re fairly expensive, so it’s important to make sure the ...

The bottom line: over 6 million Blu-ray players have been sold and only 1 million HD DVD players. That's what drove the studios to support Blu-ray. The download threat The wildcard was the retailers.

The standard DVD is a wonderful format. Its picture quality, surround sound and utility are hard to ignore. Movies on DVD pushed many to clean up their basements and set up home theatres. For more ...

Japan's Toshiba waved the white flag in the high-definition home movie war on Tuesday, giving up on its HD DVD format after losing the support of key studios and retailers to the Blu-ray technology ...

Toshiba said on Sunday its HD DVD high-definition video format is not dead despite being dealt a big setback by Warner’s decision to exclusively back Sony rival Blu-ray technology. Akiyo Ozaka, ...

Now there is a new challenger. For the past few days I have been testing one of the first high-definition DVD players – Toshiba’s HD-XA1. HD-DVD is one of two rival formats vying to replace DVD for ...

LAS VEGAS (Reuters) - Toshiba Corp insisted on Sunday that its HD DVD high-definition video format is far from dead despite being dealt a major setback by Warner Bros studio's decision to exclusively ...

Toshiba Corp. may pull the plug on its HD-DVD business, the Japanese electronics maker said Monday, in what would signal the almost certain defeat of its next-generation video format to rival Blu-ray ...