Sony will use Gemstar’s interactive program guide in its new Blu-Ray recordable DVD receiver, creating a TiVo-like capability with considerably more flexibility to take recorded programs and watch ...

Marketplace's Tess Vigeland talks about Paramount's decision to release its movies on the next generation of DVD technology. The formats are called BluRay Disc and HD-DVD, and Paramount is the first ...

PARIS — InterActual Technologies Inc. has lined up support from several high-tech companies and Hollywood studios to install its interactive DVD technology, which combines DVD video and Internet ...

An industry standards group has made a preliminary decision to include Microsoft's video compression technology in a next-generation DVD format, giving the company a key boost in the digital media ...

While high-definition DVD technology has been in the market for a year now, consumers have yet to fully embrace the technology, which promises better viewing resolution and additional features; two ...

PC giants Hewlett-Packard and Dell have lined up behind a blue-laser optical disc technology backed by Sony and others, the latest development in a simmering DVD format battle. Last week, HP and Dell ...

Google has a DVD screensaver Easter egg that might seem pointless to younger folks, but will mean a lot to those who grew up when DVDs ruled the world.

This year, Blu-ray won the war. Now it faces another battle. Technology analysts say the world's economic roller coaster could mean consumers will be holding onto their money instead of buying pricey ...

LAS VEGAS — Hewlett-Packard and Matsushita Electric Industrial (Panasonic) have agreed to support each other’s favored rewritable DVD technologies in some of their respective products, they said ...

At the upcoming CES conference in Las Vegas, one company plans to demonstrate the ability to store half a terabyte of data on a DVD disc that is made of a polymer similar to Plexiglas. Israel-based ...