Aw, shucks: the shooting has jut barely begun on the blustery format war for dominance of the next-generation DVD landscape, with Blu-ray still struggling to get out of the gates and HD DVD out ...

As everyone already knows, the HD disc format war is over, resolved in true domino fashion by Warner Brothers' decision to back Blu-ray exclusively. Most of the studios in the HD DVD camp have now ...

Apple Computer has sided with the Blu-ray Disc Association, as it enters the debate over which specification will become the next-generation DVD format. The association, which includes the likes of ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Warner Brothers — a major proponent of the original DVD format — plans to announce at the CES ...

Perhaps not everyone will agree with us, but here at Gizmodo, we’ve officially declared Blu-Ray the winner over HD DVD in the battle to be DVD’s replacement format. It’s technically superior to HD DVD ...

Licensing to Begin for BD-ROM, BD-R and BD-RE Las Vegas– January 5, 2006 — The Blu-ray Disc Association announced today that the format specification is complete and that licensing is ready to begin ...

To format a disk, launch Explorer. In the left windowpane, highlight the icon of the diskette or disk you want to format, and right click the mouse. Select Format and click Start. THIS DEFINITION IS ...

The Blu-ray Disc Association (BDA) just announced the finalization and release of the specifications for BDXL™, the new multi-layer recordable Blu-ray Disc™ format with up to 128GB of capacity. With ...

At Twentieth Century Fox Studios on November 29, the Blu-ray Disc Association (BDA) gave an update on their blue laser technology. BDA felt that it was time to highlight its progress in bringing ?the ...

The new "long term storage" format will take 300GB of data and seems to have a logo written in Klingon. Nic Healey is a Senior Editor with CNET, based in the Australia office. His passions include ...

Back in the 1980s, Peter Giles knew that the fledgling music format, the compact disc, came with some compromises. CDs were smaller than vinyl record albums. That meant the end of the 12-inch album ...

If you’re installing a new hard drive, or need to wipe your drive clean for that “fresh” feeling, you’ll end up formatting your drive. Formatting will check the drive for errors, and prepare it for ...