DVD giveaways signal woes of once-booming format
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British newspapers are now giving away  free as many DVDs as are being purchased in stores, revealing a  stealth contributing factor to the decline of Hollywood's cash  cow format.
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When the history of the nearly three-year, high-definition DVD format war is written, this may be the point when both sides realized the end is near.
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The online DVD rental price wars have been heating up quite a bit over the last year. NetFlix had a corner on the market that they practically created, but Wal-Mart and Blockbuster jumped into the fray, intent
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Consumers looking to upgrade their home theaters can now choose between two types of high-definition DVD players &#151; the confusing result of a long-running format war involving Hollywood studios and technology companies.
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HD DVD has recently faced some head wind in its struggle to become the high-definition successor to the DVD, but its supporters are playing an ace from their sleeve with the arrival of the first discs that take advantage of its players' built-in Internet connections.
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Consumers are snatching up old and new TV favorites on DVD as quickly as studios can release them. TV shows on DVD are one of the fastest-growing trends in the home video business.
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Many experts in the DVD industry said unremarkable picture quality on some early Blu-ray releases was due to studios' decisions to encode titles in the MPEG-2 compression format.
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Let the format wars begin ... again. As if Beta versus VHS wasn&#39;t bad enough, and if you just couldn&#39;t get enough of DVD versus Circuit City&#39;s DivX format, you&#39;re sure to love HD-DVD versus Blu-Ray.
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Once a dumping ground for movies considered virtually unwatchable, the direct-to-DVD pipeline is becoming increasingly important to mainstream film franchises.
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Toshiba and Memory-Tech announced they developed a dual-layer DVD disc. This wouldn&#39;t be newsworthy unless the disc is able to contain two formats: HD DVD and DVD formats.
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Recordable DVD players don't sell well here. Blame Comcast.
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For many collectors, owning DVDs is becoming more important than actually watching them.
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Discs would offer 100 times the capacity of today's DVDs--but when will they be available?
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TOKYO - A full-scale war over DVD formats is only a matter of time - the electronics industry can smell it in the air. As the two opposing camps continue to recruit allies, negotiations are no longer about averting a confrontation.
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No We surrender Toshiba has abandoned HD DVD "following recent major changes in the market", spinning the failure of its favourite format as a move made to strengthen the industry.â¦
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It has been my theory for a little while that sometime in the near future, we are going to see the downfall of physical discs for watching movies. Check out this and other original content on CNET's blog network.
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Want to get into the market for DVD players? Intense competition and standardization mean that you might make more as a mime.