Disc format rivals Microsoft and Disney set aside differences for HD content on Xbox Live Marketplace.   At this week’s E3, Microsoft announced it will carry Disney movies in HD on Xbox 360’s Xbox Live service. The Disney movies will be made available on Xbox 360 online community as part of Xbox Live Marketplace’s expanding media ...

Blu-ray may have the edge in exclusive support from Hollywood film studios. But and you know what they say about giant Hollywood blockbuster films: Once you’ve seen one, you’ve seen about twenty - that is until next summer. But HD DVD is giving a serious boost to Indie film makers, a pleasant surprise. In an alliance between Microsoft and ...

The disk format war is over according to Sony Computer Entertainment America and Blu-ray has won. January sales statistics look good for the Blu-ray Disk Association but the victory party is clearly on Crank. The snapshot in sales figures that has SECA so happy looks like this. As of January total Blu-ray sales are 439,000 while total HD DVD ...

Although Blu-ray has the edge in the format war it’s far from over. This video will make a case not necessarily for HD DVD but questioning the Blu-ray format's resolve to put forth the interests of the consumer. So, BD+ was a complete failure. But the plan to implement additional DRM is one example of how the Blu-ray Disc Association ...

Few electronics are designed to work alone these days, nearly everything can perform some form of digital communication. We use routers to communicate with computers to other computers to VoIP phones to your home theater system. That's a whole lot of wires! A consumer electronics consortium called the HomePlug Alliance has created ways for ...

Another major console release has come and gone already. How time flies! It seems like only yesterday I was standing out in the cold wishing I could get my hands on Microsoft’s gaming machine. Here are some highlights of the area’s PS3 release madness.   See GizmoCafe's full PS3 vs. Xbox360 head to head comparison   See More ...

  1/ Proprietary Formats: We all remember Beta and what a rousing success that was. Well you’d think Sony would learn about those closed proprietary formats. • Beta: True, it was the “better” format than its competitor VHS but only Sony devices could play back Beta at that time. Competing formats caused consumer panic in ...