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• Ads roll for Blu-ray: Sony pushes BD with DVD titles.(HEADLINERS)

  - 2006-06-12

  HD DVD made it to retail shelves first, but Sony's Blu-ray Disc format looks to be launching with more fanfare. With HD DVD players in short supply and software distribution spotty, Warner Home Video and other HD DVD supporters will delay most...

  Tags: advertisement, Blu-ray disc, DVD, HD-DVD, Sony Corp.

• Marketing war looms for dueling DVD formats; HD or Blu-ray? Sony, Toshiba will spend big to win in $24B market.(News)

  - 2006-04-10

  Byline: BETH SNYDER BULIK Byline: BETH SNYDER BULIK

  Tags: Blu-ray disc, DVD, marketing, Sony Corp., Toshiba Corp.

• Just say what it is.(universal media disc format)

  - 2005-08-15

  Thank goodness someone stopped the madness and has begun using the jargon PSP when referring to movies produced on the so-called UMD format. Sony's billboards for Guess Who say "... on DVD Aug. 2, and for PSP." ...

  Tags: Blu-ray disc, disc, DVD, Sony Corp., Sony PlayStation Portable

• Once more, with feeling: Fox and Warner officials have rarely let an opportunity to snipe at each other go by.(Twentieth Century Fox Film Corp.)(Warner Bros.)

  - 2005-08-08

  EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: * Fox's move to support Blu-ray reflects the ill will between the studio and HD DVD supporter Warner, which began during development of the DVD. * And the format war itself has been generated...

  Tags: Blu-ray disc, CSS, DVD, Fox, HD-DVD, Sony Corp., Toshiba Corp., Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc.

• SONY TO MAKE PROTOTYPE BLU-RAY DVDS FOR HOLLYWOOD STUDIOS.

  - 2004-07-14

  TOKYO, July 14 Asia Pulse - Sony Corp. (TSE:6758) will by fall build lines in the U.S. to produce next-generation Blu-ray Disc DVDs on a trial basis to refine its manufacturing process and DVD specifications by reflecting the wishes of major film studios TOKYO,...

  Tags: Blu-ray disc, DVD, Hollywood Studios, Sony Corp.

• Feingold: wild Blu yonder closer than you think: first Blu-ray product could be just 18 months away.(Headliners)

  - 2004-04-05

  In perhaps the boldest bid yet to use both the hardware and software sides of its business to achieve a strategic objective, Sony Corp. is planning to throw the full resources of its Hollywood studio into establishing a new generation of DVD develo In...

  Tags: Blu-ray disc, DVD, hardware, Sony Corp.

• High (DEF) anxiety: high-definition DVD is proceeding much differently than did the current DVD standard. (Headliners).

  - 2003-08-11

  EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: * When work began on the current DVD format, it was pretty widely acknowledged that it would be playback-only. That put the studios in the driver's seat. It's not working the same way with HD-DVD. ...

  Tags: Blu-ray disc, DVD, HD-DVD, Sony Corp.

• High-def DVD; A free-for-all: Myriad studio interests, formats, patents muddle progress.(studios are working to develop a workable format for HD-DVDs)

  - 2003-06-02

  High-definition video produces pictures of remarkably clarity, but the pictures might be the only thing clear about the development of an HD-DVD format. With the introduction of prerecorded HD-DVDs at least three years off, the studios most i ...

  Tags: Blu-ray disc, Columbia, Disney Corp., DVD, HD-DVD, Sony Corp., Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc.

• DVD hardware is axis of home network of future: but format questions need ironing out. (Consumer Electronics Show).

  - 2003-01-13

  LAS VEGAS--With DVD players now in nearly 40% of all U.S. homes, the format is being positioned to do even more heavy lifting in the home entertainment arena. At last week's Consumer Electronics Show, hardware makers and computer companies ou ...

  Tags: Blu-ray disc, DVD, hardware, hardware maker, home entertainment, home network, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, network, recorder, Sony Corp.