The format war that could have changed home entertainment forever.

DVD vs. Blu-ray looks like a simple size upgrade, but the real gap between the two formats hides in the light and the numbers ...

With the release of the PlayStation 3 and other HD players some people have already made their choice, but it's still too early to predict an outright winner. Not the least of all because Paramount ...

Physical media is back in the conversation in 2026, and the comeback is being led by 4K UHD, Blu-ray, and DVD. After years of ...

The SACD is a “super” CD, it sounds better, offers multichannel, high-resolution sound, and hybrid SACDs are backwards compatible with CD players. Sony initially pushed SACD as a CD replacement and ...

Here we go again: another battle for the hearts and minds of the TV-viewing public. This time its not Blue America vs. Red America, but Blue vs. Blue in a conflict between two high-capacity blue-laser ...

Between 2006 and 2008 a war raged on between two optical disc formats: BD (Blu-ray Disc) and HD DVD (High Density Digital Versatile Disc), with Sony and Toshiba as their major backers, respectively.

Apple was one of the first manufacturers to exclude DVD players from its laptops, and the same quickly became true for iMacs as well. This meant that if you wanted to rip CDs for your iTunes library, ...

The format war. Over the last few decades it has played out across various forms of tech — AC vs. DC, VHS vs. Beta — usually with fierce battle lines drawn and millions, or even billions, of dollars ...