Blu-ray vanquished its rival HD-DVD earlier this year to emerge as the next generation standard for high definition video storage. In North America, though it continues to trail DVD as most consumers ...

HP is planning to offer a hybrid HD DVD/Blu-ray optical drive for some of its build-to-order this week. An HP representative told Ars Technica that the new options will be available this Wednesday for ...

Blu-ray is now officially more popular than plain ol’ DVD in Japan. Wait, let me rephrase that: there are now more Blu-ray disc recorders in Japan than there are DVD recorders. More than 50 percent of ...

The Blu-ray Disc group, which aims to set the standard for next-generation DVDs, says it will not adopt a proposal from Hewlett-Packard by the launch of the technology, leading the PC maker to say it ...

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If that 1TB-packin' Blu-ray recorder Sharp announced earlier today is just a tad out of your reach, you might want to consider one of the company's also-just-announced hard drive-less recorders, which ...

Okay, so having half of the DVD recorders in Japan be of the Blu-ray variety is pretty impressive in and of itself, but considering that this same statistic sat at 30% in late October (with players ...

Sharp Corp. said it will put its first Blu-ray Disc recorder on sale in Japan next month. The BD-HD100 will be the third recorder on the market to support the Blu-ray Disc format, which is one of two ...

Sony Corp. said it will launch four models of new Blu-ray high-definition optical disc recorders in November in Japan, as its format battle with the HD DVD camp heats up. Sony, along with Panasonic ...