Pioneer Electronics is aiming to reduce confusion in the DVD rewritable market by incorporating support for several major formats with its next-generation drive. The Long Beach, Calif.-based ...

ChromeOS devices, like Chromebooks and Chromeboxes, have to serve a wide variety of audiences, including schools and businesses that might have media and AV equipment that's decades old, but still in ...

Microsoft announced this week that Windows 8 will not support playback of DVD movies unless you explicitly add software that supports that feature. The economic reasons for doing so are compelling ...

At the TechEd 2006 conference held in Sydney, Australia, Microsoft senior program Steve Riley said that only 64-bit versions of Windows Vista will be able to play high-definition video content on HD ...

Sonic Solutions on Wednesday announced plans to support both the Blu-ray and HD DVD data recording standards in its consumer applications, including those published by its recently acquired Roxio ...

With the ground war phase of the next-generation optical format tussle only weeks away, you might think that the battle lines are clearly drawn. Strangely enough, they're not. Before the real battles ...

The version of Windows Media Player that will ship with Windows Vista won't include playback support for either Blu-ray or HD DVD movie titles. "In box we have the Microsoft VC1 decoder...but in order ...

The next version of Windows Media Center Edition may not support the playback of high definition formats out of the box, according to a Microsoft spokesman. Despite being part of the consortium ...