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• Microsoft stops HD DVD drives for Xbox 360

  - 2008-02-25

  SAN FRANCISCO AFP — Microsoft confirmed on Monday that it will no longer make HD DVD drives for its Xbox 360 video game consoles. The much-anticipated announcement comes in the wake of the format being abandoned by its creator, Japanese electronics giant Toshiba, as well as major Hollywood studios...

  Tags: Blu-ray, DVD, HD-DVD, Hollywood Studios, Microsoft Corp., Toshiba Corp.

• EU seeks answers in Hollywood disc war.

  - 2007-07-05

  Jul 05, 2007 (The Australian Financial Review - ABIX via COMTEX) -- Some Hollywood studios have chosen to use the new Blue-ray DVD format, while Universal Studios has released its DVDs in the rival HD DVD format. The European Commission has written to the Hollywood studios, ...

  Tags: disc, DVD, European Commission, HD-DVD, Hollywood Studios, Universal Studios

• HD DVD's ''Look and Sound of Perfect'' Now Playing in Europe; HD DVD Players and Movie Content Available for the 2006 Holiday Season; European and Hollywood Studios Show Strong Support for the Format

  - 2006-09-01

  BERLIN -- In a press conference today at IFA, the HD DVD Promotion Group, a multinational organization comprised of more than 130 leading consumer electronics, entertainment, software, IT, and disc replication companies, announced that next-generation HD DVD players and high-definition content will be widely available to the European market beginning...

  Tags: HD-DVD, HD-DVD player, Hollywood Studios, movie

• HD DVD Hardware and Content ``Now Playing'' at the Consumer Electronics Show; Leading Consumer Electronics and PC Companies Unveil New HD DVD Hardware; Hollywood Studios Showcase Availability of HD DVD Content Starting March 2006

  - 2006-01-05

  LAS VEGAS -- The HD DVD Promotion Group, a multinational organization comprised of more than 120 top consumer electronics, IT, disc replication and entertainment companies, today announced at the 2006 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas that next-generation, HD DVD players and leading film content will be widely available in...

  Tags: consumer electronics, electronics, hardware, HD-DVD, Hollywood Studios, PC

• Sonic Debuts Scenarist HD; First HD DVD Authoring System Enables Hollywood Studios to Begin High-Definition Title Development

  - 2005-04-18

  LAS VEGAS -- Sonic Solutions (NASDAQ:SNIC), the leader in digital media software, debuted today ScenaristR HD, the world's first HD DVD authoring system, enabling high-end production facilities and major motion picture studios to begin developing the first wave of titles in the highly anticipated HD DVD format. Based on Scenarist,...

  Tags: HD-DVD, Hollywood Studios

• Four More Studios Back HD-DVD (TWICE)

  - 2004-12-06

  TOKYO -- As expected, the next-generation DVD format called HD DVD received independent commitments of support from four major Hollywood studios, announced Toshiba, one of the system's developers. The studios include Paramount Pictures, Universal Pictures, New Line Cinema and Warner Bros. Studios, Toshiba said. ...

  Tags: DVD, HD-DVD, Hollywood Studios, Toshiba Corp.

• Toshiba Announces the Next-Generation DVD Format Endorsement by Major Hollywood Studios

  - 2004-11-29

  TOKYO -- Toshiba Corporation disclosed today that the company has received separate commitments of support from Paramount Pictures, Universal Pictures, New Line Cinema, and Warner Bros. Studios, respectively for the next-generation, high-definition DVD disc format, HD DVD. HD DVD is the newly developed high definition DVD disc standard being...

  Tags: disc, DVD, HD-DVD, Hollywood Studios, Toshiba Corp.

• Toshiba Announces the Next-Generation DVD Format Endorsement by Major Hollywood Studios.

  - 2004-11-29

  TOKYO, Nov 29, 2004 CCNMatthews via COMTEX Toshiba Corporation disclosed today that the company has received separate commitments of support from Paramount Pictures, Universal Pictures, New Line Cinema, and Warner Bros. Studios, respectively for the next-generation, high-definition DVD disc format, HD DVD. ...

  Tags: disc, DVD, HD-DVD, Hollywood Studios, Toshiba Corp.

• Toshiba wins 4 Hollywood studios' support for HD DVD format.

  - 2004-11-29

  Kyodo News International, Tokyo Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Kyodo News International, Tokyo Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

  Tags: HD-DVD, Hollywood Studios, Toshiba Corp.