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…

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…