Microsoft had a swanky little event in a penthouse overlooking the Thames this morning and one of the many bits and bobs on show (check back soon for the games) was the Xbox 360's HD DVD drive. This ...

LOS ANGELES — Vanity, thy name is hi-def TV. The holiday shopping season was expected to boost the number of U.S. homes with high-definition televisions to nearly 33 million. In the eyes of ...

HD channels from the BBC, ITV and others should be freely available to most of the country by the time the World Cup kicks off, so you can enjoy seeing England predictably and pathetically fail in ...

You’ve got your HDTV up and running, you bought a high-definition DVD of the movie “2001: A Space Odyssey,” and you can’t wait to watch it. To do that, though, you’re going to have to get a ...

It’s now official. Wal-Mart announced today that its 4,000 Wal-Mart and Sam’s Club stores and internet websites will move forward this year with just one hi-def movie and hardware format: Blu-ray. The ...

New movie download services launched by Amazon, Apple, Microsoft and, most recently, Wal-Mart still play in a separate sandbox from the physical world of HD DVD and Blu-ray. But as Sony and other ...

Amazon has officially entered the lossless sound wars. On Sept. 17, the company launched Amazon Music HD, the highest tier of its subscription streaming service. With 50 million HD songs, Amazon's… By ...

Kobo’s next eReader could be a model with an illuminated 6 inch, 1448 x 1072 pixel E Ink display. An unannounced device called the Kobo Glo HD showed up recently on the website of New Zealand retailer ...

Tech journalists have begun reviewing the new high-definition disc formats, Blu-ray and HD-DVD, that are vying to replace the standard DVD. It has not been fun stuff to read, full of incomprehensible ...

SINGAPORE — High-definition television trials launch this month with World Cup soccer on StarHub digital cable and “The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers” on MediaCorp terrestrial. Move is spearheaded ...