Sharp Corp. said it will put its first Blu-ray Disc recorder on sale in Japan next month. The BD-HD100 will be the third recorder on the market to support the Blu-ray Disc format, which is one of two ...

Sony released details on several products that will feature Blu-ray high-definition DVD drives--but like the PlayStation 3, you're going to have to wait awhile to take them home. The company unveiled ...

As a refresher, DVD discs can hold up to 4.7 Gbytes per layer, and each disc can have two layers per side. In contrast, Blu-ray discs can hold up to 25 Gbytes per layer, and single- and double-layer ...

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Broadcom Corp. could help PC and DVD manufacturers sidestep the choice between two high-definition recording standards with a chip that can decode signals recorded in either format. The chip company ...

While Sony’s goal of having Blu-ray control 50 percent of the video disc market by the end of this year may be laughable, there are some interesting collaborations going on with the technology that ...

Sony will launch a pair of Blu-ray Disc video recorders in Japan this December, the company said Tuesday. The machines both feature hard-disk drives for day-to-day recording and a Blu-ray Disc drive ...

Pioneer Electronics (USA) Inc. today announced the new BDC-202 combination Blu-ray Disc BD-ROM computer drive with enhanced DVD and CD writing and reading capabilities. The newly designed Pioneer ...

Here’s a startling quote for you, from Sony’s executive deputy president Katsumi Ihara: “Sony will release only BD [Blu-ray Disc] recorders for the Japanese market from now.” That’s right: Sony won’t ...

Blu-ray backers such as Sony, Pioneer and Hitachi are lauding the end of uncertainty about formats and predicting a bright future for it, but are not prepared to commit to Blu-ray recording, at least ...

Broadcom Corp. could help PC and DVD manufacturers sidestep the choice between two high-definition recording standards with a chip that can decode signals recorded in either format. The chip company ...

Blu-ray is well on its way to replacing DVD as the format of choice when it comes to watching movies on the living-room TV. So, with Blu-ray player prices tumbling, it could be time to ditch that ...