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 ...

It's been months since the DVD Download DL logo surfaced, offering little info for anyone trying to figure out how this might play into Toshiba's post-HD DVD anything-but-Blu-ray plans, but now that ...

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.

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 ...

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, the international DVD standard authority, has given Chinese engineers the go-ahead to look into developing a next-generation DVD format which will compete with Sony's Blu Ray and ...

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 ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The DVD Forum in Tokyo has decided to adopt a DVD format proposed by NEC and Toshiba Corporations ...

...so of course half the DVD companies won't accept it and we'll have competing formats regardless. Toshiba and NEC are the biggest backers, and of course it can't be a format without Sony not ...

<p>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 ...

Yet more news from the HD-DVD front, Toshiba has announced that the DVD Forum has approved the proposal for a 30GB, dual-layer HD-DVD R disc. Originally the proposal that was being used was a spec for ...

The DVD Forum has formally adopted the Advanced Optical Disc (AOD) format under development by Toshiba Corp. and NEC Corp. as the next-generation DVD drive, but in the near-term, it doesn't mean a ...