Thomas Baekdal recently wrote a post with the same title, and it interested me. I have known that sooner or later YouTube would put up some better quality videos, as they have Google’s deep pockets backing them, but what Thomas has shown is that YouTube is already doing so, at least on certain videos.
YouTube has […]

The format war is over.
As I’ve always told my friends, Blu-ray is going to win and I am quite glad that I actually got it right (imagine the ridicule I would’ve received from them had HD-DVD won). With just one format in the High-Def playground, the Blu-ray group can now refocus its attention to making […]

Wired’s How-to Wiki has a post up that talks about converting your HD DVD’s from their quickly dying format over to the “new hotness” of Blu-ray. In case you didn’t hear, HD DVD is going the way of Betamax, and so it is time to embrace Sony’s Blu-ray format. All of you PS3 owners out […]

Microsoft has decided to slash the price of its Xbox 360 HD-DVD add-on.
Microsoft’s decision to cut the price of the add-on from $179.99 to $129.99, may be a last ditch effort to stave off what could possibly be the inevitable — Blu-ray winning the format wars. Warner Bros.’ decision to go Blu-ray exclusive has been […]

Amazingly, in a research laboratory in Japan, the public broadcast service is secretly beavering away at new technology that will go beyond HD. NHK calls this (so far) Super Hi-Vision – it’s all very Japanese isn’t it!
The future is around 2025 apparently and it requires a screen size of 60 inches – which really […]

I never knew the porn industry would also have a serious stake on the current HD format wars. According to news articles I’ve read the adult film industry is still maintaining a wait and see attitude with regards to which format to support.
I know that adult films are a multi million dollar industry but […]

Probably the biggest tech news to come out in the last week was the surprise decision of Warner Bros. to drop support for HD-DVD and go Blu-ray exclusive. Warner Bros., which is the biggest distributor of DVDs, with market sales of about 18 to 20 per cent in the United States, used to be format […]

One of the reasons I like Stage6 better than YouTube is because of the upper limit of quality that DivX’s video sharing site provides is much higher than anything you will see on YouTube, but it looks like that might be changing with the announcement of YouTube HD over on TechCrunch.
YouTube co-founder Steve Chen […]

4x certainly isn’t lighting fast, but it’s getting better. The new BWU-200S can burn a 50 gb Blu-Ray disk in about 45 minutes. It can also burn to BD-RE at 2x, DVD±R at 16x, dual-layer DVD±R at 8x, CD-R at 40x and CD-RW at 24x. The unit also features a SATA interface and comes […]

That’s right folks, because HD-DVD and Blu-Ray weren’t enough for…wait a minute…this post is sounding familiar…but no, I’m not making this up, and it isn’t a joke…there is ANOTHER entrant into the HD disk market: HD VMD.
So what is HD VMD? Well, here’s an excerpt from the Gizmodo article that explains it […]

Because 2 standards wasn’t enough for China, here comes CH-DVD. Engadget has the full details.
From the article:

The Optical Memory National Engineering Research Center has announced CH-DVD, a high definition DVD standard based on the DVD Forum’s HD DVD, but with additional Chinese-owned technology tacked on. This additional technology takes the form of advanced copy […]

It was a very busy weekend for the hi-def DVD wars, and this is the first of three posts on Forever Geek today on that subject.
The 51 gb triple layer HD-DVD has been approved by the DVD forum, and the DVD/HD-DVD hybrid disk is expected to be approved by the end of the year. […]

Sony has unveiled the high end (at least, I think it’s the high end) of their “S” series of Blu-Ray players. This one features HDMI 1.3, 1080p/60 and 24p output , x.v.Color, 7.1-channel Dolby Digital Plus, Dolby True HD and DTS-HD1, seperate audio / video boards to keep interference to a minimum and […]

Engadget reports on some of Sony’s announcements at CEDIA. One of those reports is about his curios device. The HES-V1000 is a home entertainment center/massive Blu-Ray Disk changer. The idea is to keep all of your media in one place…as long as your media is all on Blu-Ray. It also features a […]

Toshiba is all about HD-DVD these days, and they have just announced yet another HD-DVD drive into the market. This one, measuring at 5.04- x 4.96- x 0.51-inches and weigh 5.82 ounces is simply titled, the HD-DVD Writer. The drive can play HD-DVDs and also write to HD-DVD single and dual layer disks, allowing […]

Let me start by saying that I’m choosing HD-DVD in the format wars. I want to be clear about that upfront, because I have mentioned it in previous posts. HD-DVD has the content that I want to see in Hi-Def on my TV - so that’s what I’m choosing.
Having said that […]