Some companies simply don’t forget about VHS: Toshiba Japan announced [JP] the D-BW500 today, which essentially is a Blu-ray /DVD and VHS recorder plus a 320GB hard disc rolled into one. The Swiss ...

Toshiba said it made the decision to cease developing, manufacturing, and marketing HD DVDs after "recent major changes in the market." It promised to continue offering support an ...

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Intel announced on Tuesday its official backing for Toshiba’s next-generation HD DVD format, which is set to go head-to-head with Sony’s Blu-ray in a replay of the rivalry a generation ago between VHS ...

Japan's Toshiba waved the white flag in the high-definition home movie war on Tuesday, giving up on its HD DVD format after losing the support of key studios and retailers to the Blu-ray technology ...

Toshiba rolled out a prototype of its next HD DVD player at CEATEC in Japan, and from the looks of it, it’s about half the height of Toshiba’s first outing into the HD DVD player world, the HD-A1. The ...

The Good: Tremendous image quality at 1080i and 720p; features a full suite of audio and video connections; attractive price tag compared to forthcoming Blu-ray players. The Bad: Extremely slow ...

Talks between Japanese electronics giants Sony and Toshiba aimed at reaching an agreement on a unified next-generation disc format have collapsed, says SCE president Ken Kutaragi. Speaking in a press ...

Toshiba announces on Tuesday that it is abandoning its HD DVD format. The capitulation comes after a protracted and costly battle with rival Sony, developer of the Blu-Ray DVD format. Toshiba has ...

TOKYO (Reuters) - Toshiba Corp <6502.T> is planning to give up on its HD DVD format for high definition DVDs, conceding defeat to the competing Blu-Ray technology backed by Sony Corp <6758.T>, a ...

2007 is going to be the year of high definition, or so we are told, and with that, Toshiba has finally waded in with two players in the UK that are capable of playing back its next generation HD DVD ...