Microsoft, once a leader in tech, appears ready to play follower.
Tech tracker X-bit Labs is reporting that a joint Toshiba-Samsung venture is about to bring Blu-ray to the Xbox, in the form of an external disk drive costing $100 to $150. The…
Sir Howard Stringer just doesn’t seem to get it.
You’d think the Sony CEO, or anybody in that job, is deftly perceptive of public interaction with the gaming-hardware market. After all, his company’s PlayStation 3 mostly-for-gaming console has been locked in a consumer…
Talk that Microsoft would relent and build an Xbox 360 with Blu-ray technology has flared on and off since the preferred optical disc format, HD DVD, went belly up in February.
They appear to be flaring again. The Economic Daily News out of Taiwan…
The former HD DVD allies are falling into step with Blu-ray. Now, it’s Paramount Pictures‘ turn.
Hollywood’s oldest movie company says it will release its first Blu-ray-only titles starting next month with the animated flick “Bee Movie” starring Jerry Seinfeld, “Face/Off”…
Down Under, they’re underwhelmed with Xbox 360. So much so that retailers are talking about giving up on the console and stocking only Sony and Nintendo gaming systems instead.
That prospect stems from a survey of 10 Australian chains, running more than…
Saving your pennies for a new Xbox 360 with built-in Blu-ray technology? Spend them elsewhere.
Microsoft Corp. has no immediate plans to incorporate Blu-ray in the game console following HD DVD’s recent demise, according to an Xbox product manager, though it…
It’s official: HD DVD will go the way of Betamax, the Edsel and every TV series that has starred Ted McGinley.
After a month of speculation over the technology’s future, most of it negative, the chief of Toshiba Corp., Atsutoshi Nishida, announced early…
The high-def format war appears over — maybe.
Toshiba Corp. will give up on its HD DVD format for high definition DVDs and give in to rival Blu-ray, a technology developed by Sony Corp., a source with Toshiba has told news services.
So…
