Plenty of physical video formats have hit the mainstream over the years and decades - here are the most popular ones, ranked.

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 ...

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The two groups striving to make their respective formats the standard for rewritable DVDs used this week's Consumer Electronics Show as an opportunity to demonstrate their progress. At separate, ...

OK, the the title is a tad-bit deceiving. It's been almost a year now since I wrote my popular yet controversial diatribe on the demise of the competing high definition DVD formats. I wrote the ...

Sony is straddling the fence in the struggle over which DVD rewritable format will eventually dominate the market. The consumer electronics giant has begun shipping to retailers DVD+RW drives and ...

Toshiba and NEC may have won the support of the DVD Forum for their proposed new HD DVD video format, but industry observers warn of a new format war looming. The losers in the standards contest — a ...

In an announcement this week that could lead to even further confusion in the ongoing DVD format wars, Paramount Home Entertainment said it will support the Sony Blu-ray DVD disc format for HD. At the ...

In a dramatic turn, Paramount Home Entertainment and DreamWorks Animation vowed exclusive support of HD DVD, a year after declaring they would release movies in both next-generation disc formats. By ...