Category: HD DVD
Bristol Sound & Vision '07 – what piqued my interest
Well, it would've been a heck of a lot more, had I not seen all of it already at this year's CES. Those Americans, moving too fast for us Brits. Still, from what I gathered from walking around the…
Marantz's DV7001 DVD Player Upscales To HD!
5px; float: left;" />Fancy having the quality of HDTV but don't want to fork out hundreds for a new TV? Never fear, because Marantz is here. They've just launched the DV7001, a DVD player capable of upscaling normal standard…
JVC 2007: Liveblogging the keynote speech direct from Athens
We're here in a hot conference room at the Intercontinental hotel in Athens, waiting for the highly-anticipated keynote speech to begin. All around us sit fellow journalists, from both the UK as well as Europe. There are many Japanese dealers…
LG's BH100 hybrid high definition disc player comes to market, minus HD DVD logo
Just when it seemed that the high definition optical disc format war was over, thanks to the first combo player, along comes the HD DVD forum and states that the player can't be called HD DVD certified. Well, that hasn't…
Toshiba unveils 51GB HD DVD disc
Toshiba has submitted a triple-layer, 51GB HD DVD-ROM disc to the standard's overseer, with the intention of getting it adopted by the end of the year. That will exceed the currently superior 50GB storage capacity of Blu-ray. The HD DVD…
CES 2007: The Top 10 vids so far
We've been blogging and shooting videos for what feels like weeks, so we thought it time to give you a rundown of the Top 10 CES 2007 vids so far. Drumroll please…
CES 2007: HD DVD press conference
HD DVD's event kicked off with a short film showing supposedly real people being asked questions about HD DVD Blu-ray and the format wars. It was hard to tell whether this was aimed at exposing the ordinary punter's confusion about…
CES 2007: Toshiba add a new HD DVD player to its ranks, the HD-A20
As well as joining forces with MTV to conquer the music world, Toshiba are today celebrating the continued success of their HD DVD players by adding another model to their range. The HD-A2 (entry level) and HD-XA2 (top of…
CES 2007: JVC launch first hard disk full HD camcorder – the Everio GZ-HD7
As well as those new easier to use standard Everios, JCV's other huge CES news is the release of the high definition Everio (just as we predicted). The first of it's kind, the hard drive camcorder records in full HD…
CES 2007: LG unveils BH100 Blu-ray / HD DVD player
So, the rumours were correct then. LG has unveiled its ‘Super Multi Blue Player’ (or, more prosaically, the BH100) which can play both Blu-ray and HD DVD discs. It’s going on sale by the end of March in the US,…
