Taiwan Headlines is reporting that HP will roll out HD DVD Player/Media Centers in September. The device is described as a “Player” but I have to assume they mean Media Center, perhaps similar to the one below demonstrated at last years Consumer Electronics Show. “Hewlett-Packard (HP) plans to roll out HD DVD players in September and [...]

Filed under: Home Entertainment, Media PCs
It must have been a restless night for Microsoft's Steve Riley who mistakenly told a crowd in Australia yesterday that Windows Vista would not support commercial Blu-ray and HD DVD playback on machines sporting 32-bit processors -- the vast majority of PCs in homes today. Not true says a scrambling Microsoft, "playback is possible with Windows Vista in 32-bit" but support will be determined by independen

Just a quick update this morning on HD DVD firmware update 2.0, as of early this morning 08/25/2006 2.0 is live and ready for ethernet updates. No word on the official contents of the update but considering that a disc image of the update has been floating around the internet for several days, we can make [...]

Filed under: Home Entertainment, Media PCs
For all the noise Microsoft made about Vista supporting HD DVD you'd think we'd be able to play those studio-released, HD DVD titles right out of the box right? Not so childrens, at least not in Australia according to c|net. See, Mark O'Shea, a Microsoft OEM systems engineer (not exactly an executive level position, mind you) sez that version 11 of the Windows Media Player s

Filed under: HDTV, Home Entertainment
Toshiba sure does love their firmware updates. Their fourth update in as many months bumps the version number to a nice round 2.0, and promises TrueHD 5.1 support, allowing for full digital reproduction of studio mastered sound with 24-bit/96kHz discrete channels. As our friends at HD Beat astutely point out, it ain't no Blu-ray support, but it's a nice one-up on

Innocuous, semi-questionable title aside, the North American HD DVD Promotional Group’s website got a bit of a makeover today. Some of the notable improvements to ‘The Look and Sound of Perfect‘ include a full color HD background, virtual comparisons of DVD versus HD DVD and a list of dates and locations for the revamped HD [...]