Filed under: Gaming, HDTV, Home Entertainment
Nothing official or anything, but the folks at GamesIndustry.biz are catching wind from their retail pals that Microsoft is prepping to drop their HD DVD drive in the UK this November for £199. Added to the current price of an Xbox 360 Premium in the UK the total price comes to £478, compared to the PS3's £425 asking price in the UK. The good news is that sources also suggest Microsoft is planning on selling a bundle of

Microsoft and Toshiba showed off their HD DVD drive for the Xbox 360 at IFA 2006. No video demonstration or life usage, but starting halfway in the video, you can get a 360 degree view of the drive. There's two USB ports on the back of the drive, one standard and one small one—most likely one USB A and one USB B. This gives you a better look at the actual dimensions of the drive, which is about as thick and long as the 360, but not as tall. – Jason Chen Toshiba HD DVD [IFA2006]

Well folks there you have it, ever since the launch of both Blu-ray and HD DVD many have wondered when the big Hollywood blockbusters would make their way to the fledgling HD formats and prove the studios were serious about their success. It looks like November 14th is that date for HD DVD owners. Let’s hope [...]

Filed under: Home Entertainment
Much like Pioneer, Samsung is still bumming us out by not whipping up a combo Blu-ray and HD DVD player. But good ol' Sammy is announcing its first Blu-ray player, the BD-P1000, to be released in Europe in October 2006, with price estimates reaching €1,400. It's due to go h

Filed under: HDTV
Despite our earlier report that Pioneer's upcoming BDR-103 would be a combo drive, supporting both Blu-ray and HD DVD discs, it appears that Pioneer will join the legions of soulless hardware makers that will not be supporting both formats. Our sister blog, HDBeat, reports that those quotes from Pioneer o

Filed under: Laptops
Acer isn't really messing around with their rollout of Core 2 Duo laptops. They've got 13 new ones, including six TravelMates and seven Aspires, and they've even managed to get Blu-ray or HD DVD drives into a few of them. The headliner of the bunch is the new TravelMate 8210, which runs the full range of Core 2 Duo chips, boasts of the Windows x64 OS, and tops it all off with a Blu-ray drive. You can upgrade the RAM to a max 4GB to really get the use out of the 64-bit Windows, and there are plenty o

Some rather interesting revelations have come to light surrounding the European launch of the Toshiba HD-E1 and HD-XE1 HD DVD Players. According to Heise Online the players benefit from several refinements, features and additions over their predecessors: The translation is a bit rough but after going back and forth between Google Language Tools and Babel Fish [...]

Toshiba has announced two HD DVD players for the European market, The HD-E1: Available in November for 599 euros supports 480p, 720p and 1080i as well as Dolby Digital Plus, Dolby TrueHD and DTS-HD The HD-XE1 goes for 899 euros and will be available in December. The HD-XE1 supports 480p, 720p, 1080i and 1080p and again [...]