The more portable HD streaming stick will be available in more than a dozen countries, starting at $34.99 in the U.S.

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Engineers at iZYREC have released the companies latest generation of voice recorder in the form of the smallest to date. Weighing just 18g the ultralight voice recorder is equipped with a 50 day stand ...

Last month’s release of a second format in high-definition DVD players conjures up images of money spent, or wasted, on Betamax recorders, laserdisc players and AM stereo radios. Even Comedy Central’s ...

Format Wars May Be Over, but High-Definition DVD Still Faces Challenges, According to ABI Research Aided by the major motion picture studios, Sony’s Blu-ray format has emerged as the undisputed ...

TOKYO — Japanese electronics giant Toshiba formally conceded defeat Tuesday in the battle between rival high-definition DVD formats. Speaking to reporters at the company’s headquarters in Tokyo, prexy ...

Toshiba Corp. announced Tuesday that it will discontinue its HD-DVD products, handing victory to rival high-definition disc format Blu-ray Disc. The company said it will no longer develop, manufacture ...

The high-definition movie disc battle between HD DVD and Blu-ray Disc can be traced all the way back to 2000, when companies began experimenting with using new blue lasers in optical disc systems.

ViXS Systems has debuted its XCode 3290, an MPEG-4 AVC (MPEG-4 Part 10/H.264) transcoder/encoder/decoder System-on-a-Chip (SoC), in North America. The XCode 3290 SoC features real-time MPEG-2 ...

Toshiba is showing three yet-to-be-launched HD DVD recorders at this week’s Ceatec show in Japan. A main feature of all three players is the ability to transcode in real-time an off-the-air MPEG2 high ...

TOKYO (Reuters) - Sharp Corp <6753.T> said it would launch a Blu-ray high-definition DVD recorder with a 1-terabyte hard disk drive (HDD), the world's largest storage capacity on any Blu-ray recorder, ...