A patent application has been filed for a disc that would play two competing high-definition DVD formats which, if successful, could help appease a battle that has divided Hollywood and confounded ...

The patent application was filed by three Warner Bros. employees, two of whom are engineers for the company. The “multilayer dual optical disk” would have one layer of data in the standard CD or DVD ...

It was disclosed this week that a patent application has been filed for a single DVD disc that could accommodate the non-compatible Blu-ray and HD DVD formats, as well as standard DVD, although it's ...

Perhaps not everyone will agree with us, but here at Gizmodo, we’ve officially declared Blu-Ray the winner over HD DVD in the battle to be DVD’s replacement format. It’s technically superior to HD DVD ...

Was peace possible in the Blu-ray vs. HD DVD war? In the world according to Warren Lieberfarb, the schism between the two next-generation disc formats shouldn’t have happened. Before ...

Time Warner’s Warner Bros. plans to announce a high definition disc at CES that combines both the Blu-ray and HD DVD formats. In other words, the disc—called Total HD—will come with both Blu-ray and ...

Stunning picture and audio quality is only part of what the HD DVD format has to offer. The combination of HD video, interactivity, connectivity, and dynamic content integration is what enables HD DVD ...

Does riding the DVD/HD DVD/Blu-ray Roller Coaster of Consumer Confusion make you queasy? Supporting three formats is giving the movie studios indigestion, but so far they haven’t found the right ...

Every now and then tech companies will launch a product that'll make you think, "Wait, why weren't we doing this all along?" Universal Studio's new "Flipper" disc is one of those: a two-in-one disc ...