Universal Home Entertainment has just announced another slate of HD-DVD releases, slated for release in June, continuing to dig through their catalog titles. The line-up contains high definition ...

Warner Home Video has just announced plans to release The Road Warrior and Battle Of The Bulge in high definition this May, offering both titles up on HD-DVD and Blu-Ray Disc simultaneously. “The ...

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Another day, another all-in-one solution for copying AACS-protected HD DVDs hits the streets. Fengtao Software has thrown support for the next generation format into the latest beta version (3.0.9.0) of its DVDFab copying software. Following in the steps of Slysoft's AnyDVD HD, the maker of DVDFab HD Decrypter says Blu-ray backup support is "coming soon", and that it's capable of copying an HD DVD to the hard drive -- sans any copy protection restrictions -- in less than one hour. Of course the changelog doesn't provide details on how DVDFab does it's unDRMing thing, but with so many methods available, does it really matter which one? Still no word on how AACS LA plans to respond to the growing availability of easy hacks and DRM-free HD editions of Hollywood's latest, but at this rate we'll have a war between various makers of one-click backup software to rival Blu-ray vs. HD DVD.

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Warner’s Total HD format could be in market by June this year Movie studio Warner revealed their plans to sell movies in their own hybrid format named Total HD few months back. The company is continuing promoting this format as a solution to the competition between Toshiba’s HD DVD and Sony’s Blu-Ray format. Warner has now indicated [...]

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Looks like Samsung's got another sexy laptop on display at CeBIT to go with the R70, R20, and Q45 that we saw earlier in the show, and this one is aimed squarely at gamers on the go. The company's M-series has always incorporated high-end features -- various iterations of the M55 were among the first on the market with Blu-ray and HD DVD drives -- and the upcoming M60 is no different, sporting top of the line Core 2 Duo processors, Santa Rosa chipsets, BD drives, and most importantly, DirectX 10-compatible NVIDIA cards with 512MB of video RAM. Notebook Review tells us to expect these sometime in May or June, for an as-yet-to-be-determined price. 
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According to the latest sales numbers from Nielsen VideoScan, the Blu-ray format appears to be gaining momentum over HD DVD.

Remember those Total HD discs we talked about back in January? In a nutshell, they were Warner's solution to the format war, super discs that offered Blu-ray on one side and HD DVD on the other. Well, the discs are ready for their 15 minutes of fame debuting this June for "a little more" than the cost of current single-format discs. But there's a small problem...

You see, the first gen discs will have 15GB HD DVD on one side and 25GB Blu-ray on the other. Come August we'll see higher-capacity Total HD discs with 30GB HD DVD/25GB Blu-ray. So what's the problem? 50GB Blu-ray is outta the picture. (At least in the short term). So Blu-ray fans are bound to feel a little burned over that.
No other studios (other than Warner) are backing Total HD right now, so it'll be interesting to see how they do. Technically, Total HD isn't a third format, but to me this just gives me more reason to stick with my DVDs. – Louis Ramirez
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It unfortunately didn't make it to the show floor, but Asus used the run-up to CeBIT to announce its new ASmobile C90S barebones laptop, the first to boast a so-called D-door design allowing for more expansion options than is normally possible with a laptop. One of the few things on the laptop that's not upgradeable is its 15.4 widescreen display, which can be complemented with up to an E6800 Core 2 Duo processor, any standard MXM graphics card, up to 2GB of RAM, your choice of SATA hard drive and, apparently, an "HD DVD and Blu-Ray optical drive," although we're guessing that doesn't mean a combo drive. Rounding out the specs, the 6.8 pound C90S comes standard with a built-in 2-megapixel camera, Bluetooth, WiFi, and a TV tuner, as well as a full line-up of ports including, most notably, HDMI. Pricing will obviously vary quite a bit depending on how you configure it, but there's word yet one what it'll cost you to get going, nor is there any indication of when ...

Apparently Sony and its cohorts are certain that they will own the market in just three years. At least, this is what Frank Simonis, the Blu-ray Disc Association's European chairman, has said today at CeBIT:
"Within three years it will just be Blu-ray" Frank is not only talking about beating HD DVD, but also replacing DVD entirely. In three years. Thanks to "a plan", which includes the amazing success of the PS3. Apparently, they are doing stand-up comedy mornings in Hanover and we are, like, totally missing them. – Jesus Diaz
CeBIT 2007: Blu-ray Association has three-year plan to replace DVDs [IT Pro]

Doth our eyes deceive us? Have we finally happened upon a real life computer with real life CableCARD after all these years? It looks like PC Mag's finally got that early review up of the Dell XPS 410 with ATI TV Wonder Digital Cable Tuner (and Blu-ray, to boot!), which we've come to find out is, unfortunately, still just a working prototype (read: not hitting the market just yet). That didn't stop them and their dual CableCARD tuners from jacking into some serious HD cable though. Interesting notes:
Dell claims that the sales rep who takes the order for your CableCARD-equipped Dell box will also schedule an appointment with your local cable company to have the CableCARDs delivered and installed the same day your system comes. (Really? We're skeptical.) The initial CableCARD install apparently took three friggin hours to drop in, provision, and get running; one of the two tuners continually didn't work for PC Mag, which caused lingering issues. Both t...