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It may sound like a bad movie title, but HD DVD, after being kicked to the side of the road by Blu-Ray is striking back. . More >

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You may have noticed that many new DVDs and Blu-Ray discs are being advertised with a new, extra ‘feature:’ Digital Copy. These films, such as Wanted, The Dark Knight and Mamma Mia!, come with an additional disc. On this disc is a copy of the movie you can put it on your computer, and from [...]

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One of the perpetual pains of desktop Linux is dealing with DVDs and proprietary video and audio formats. Ubuntu, like the other Linuxes, have the same problem. Now, however, Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu, has made it easier for Ubuntu users to legally play DVDs and files encased in proprietary formats. In a Canonical blog, [...]

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When Apple first talked about movie rentals, one of the downers about it was that movies would be released 30-days after they appeared in DVDs. Well, maybe some studios are holding out on Apple TV and video iPod customers, but many are letting Apple sell and/or rent movies at the same time as they appear [...]

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Toshiba executives haven’t made an official statement, but the word is leaking out from multiple sources: HD DVD is dead. The hand-writing has been on the wall for months now. Any doubt that HD DVD was losing to Blu Ray should have been removed last week when both Netflix and Best Buy announced that they [...]

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