The war between the two competing high-capacity, high-definition DVD standards might be drawing to a close. The DVD Forum, the trade group composed of electronics manufacturers and movie studios which ...

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 ...

Ready for high-definition DVD? The DVD Forum has approved the new DVD HD standard developed by Toshiba and NEC. DVD HD will offer five times the storage capacity as current DVDs and its approval comes ...

Toshiba and NEC formally announced here that the DVD Forum, a multi-industry association that sanctions standards based on the DVD optical disc system, has approved the two companies’ standard for a ...

The DVD Forum announced today that they will officially support the burning of CSS-protected content to DVD-R discs. The forum specifically approved "CSS Managed Recording" during its 36th Steering ...

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 ...

LAS VEGAS — After much delay, the DVD Forum will select an advanced encoder/decoder for the HD-DVD format in the next few months, allowing development of next-generation DVD systems to move forward.

NEW YORK — A working group of the DVD Forum will scrutinize Microsoft Corp.'s next-generation Windows Media technology and several other codecs when it meets next week in Japan to explore encoding ...

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 ...

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 ...

Well, the 34th DVD Forum Steering Committee meeting occurred two days ago in Seattle, but it wasn't just the usual hum drum logo approvals and plans for world living room domination. This time they ...

...so of course half the DVD companies won't accept it and we'll have competing formats regardless. Toshiba and NEC are the biggest backers, and of course it can't be a format without Sony not ...