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 ...

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 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 ...

A few weeks ago the DVD Forum, the industry organization in charge of the DVD format, decided that Microsoft's Windows Media Video 9 format would be one of the mandatory playback standards for ...

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, 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 ...

The DVD Forum has formally adopted the Advanced Optical Disc (AOD) format under development by Toshiba Corp. and NEC Corp. as the next-generation DVD drive, but in the near-term, it doesn't mean a ...

TOKYO — With digital video disk systems selling faster than any other consumer-electronics item in history, consumer OEMs are doing what comes natural: They're eating their young. Nine companies ...

The approval of the DualDisc audio standard by the DVD Forum could open up some potentially interesting options for not only DVD-Audio but plain ol’ DVD-Video, as well. The DualDisc format basically ...