Ready for high-definition DVD? The DVD Forum has approved the new DVD HD standard developed by Toshiba and NEC. DVD HD will offer five times the storage capacity as current DVDs and its approval comes ...

The DVD Forum Steering Committee has approved the Thomson Film Grain Technology as an optional HD DVD-Video format. Using algorithms, the film grain tool allows users to edit and manipulate picture ...

The war between the two competing high-capacity, high-definition DVD standards might be drawing to a close. The DVD Forum, the trade group composed of electronics manufacturers and movie studios which ...

The DVD Forum has adopted an IEEE 1394-based technical standard that will simplify connections between DVD-Audio/Video players and other consumer electronics products, including receivers and TVs. The ...

LAS VEGAS — After much delay, the DVD Forum will select an advanced encoder/decoder for the HD-DVD format in the next few months, allowing development of next-generation DVD systems to move forward.

The DVD Forum denied a published report that it had approved a Toshiba/NEC HD DVD blue laser disc format, saying it continues to study blue laser optical disc proposals based on both 0.6mm and 0.1mm ...

The DVD Forum in Tokyo has decided to adopt a DVD format proposed by NEC and Toshiba Corporations for the storage and display of HD television programs and feature films. The 0.6-mm bonded disk, which ...

NEW YORK — A working group of the DVD Forum will scrutinize Microsoft Corp.'s next-generation Windows Media technology and several other codecs when it meets next week in Japan to explore encoding ...

Looks like DualDisc wasn’t the only format approved by the DVD Forum last week — the HD-DVD specification was pushed through, as well, including the VC-9 codec (read: Windows Media Player 9) from ...