"The DVD Forum, the body that oversees the DVD specification, has decided to stick with red laser technology and current storage capacities rather than make the move to blue light and more capacious ...

Microsoft has come a long way from its announcement at CES 2004 that it had entered the foray of high-definition DVD. This week the company won a very crucial vote when the Steering Committee for the ...

The DualDisc — a double-sided hybrid disc format which can fit regular CD audio tracks on one side and DVD music or video on the other — just received approval from the high council of elders known as ...

The DVD Forum has adopted an IEEE 1394-based technical standard that will simplify connections between DVD-Audio/Video players and other consumer electronics products, including receivers and TVs. The ...

LAS VEGAS — After much delay, the DVD Forum will select an advanced encoder/decoder for the HD-DVD format in the next few months, allowing development of next-generation DVD systems to move forward.

The DVD Forum Steering Committee has approved the Thomson Film Grain Technology as an optional HD DVD-Video format. Using algorithms, the film grain tool allows users to edit and manipulate picture ...

The DVD Forum denied a published report that it had approved a Toshiba/NEC HD DVD blue laser disc format, saying it continues to study blue laser optical disc proposals based on both 0.6mm and 0.1mm ...

Looks like DualDisc wasn’t the only format approved by the DVD Forum last week — the HD-DVD specification was pushed through, as well, including the VC-9 codec (read: Windows Media Player 9) from ...

The DVD Forum, the international DVD standard authority, has given Chinese engineers the go-ahead to look into developing a next-generation DVD format which will compete with Sony's Blu Ray and ...

<p>Ready for high-definition DVD? The DVD Forum has approved the new DVD HD standard developed by Toshiba and NEC. DVD HD will offer five times the storage capacity as current DVDs and its approval ...