war

Blu-ray trounces HD DVD in sales

Crave When Warner Bros announced it was becoming a Blu-ray exclusive studio, most observers of the format war agreed that it was a mortal wound for HD DVD. We previously thought HD DVD's only road to victory was by selling loads of cheap standalone HD...

Tags: war, hd, blu, sales

24 January 2008, 9:27

Blu-ray vs HD DVD: Heavyweight title bout

Crave The story that dominated CES this year was the standards war around high-definition DVD. This is no longer a phony war: both Blu-ray and HD DVD players will arrive in less than six months. What's clear from talking to people at the show is that...

Tags: toshiba, hd, high definition, war

9 January 2006, 13:53

Hi-def news: Paramount drops Blu-ray support

Crave It's not often we see significant advances in the high-definition disc format war, but yesterday -- in a move that had us re-reading the press release with our mouths wide open -- Paramount announced that it would shift from supporting both...

Tags: hd, deal, ray, war

21 August 2007, 11:02

Samsung BD-UP5000: Sit on the high-definition fence

Crave If you're an AV pacifist then the whole next-generation DVD format war will no doubt be as distasteful to you as kicking kittens. So is the war over with minimal bloodshed, or will we wading through the spilt entrails for some time to come?

Tags: samsung, discs, interactive, ray

16 April 2007, 10:30

HD DVD disc sales figures: Blu-ray gets really cross

Crave In the latest skirmish in the hi-def format war, the HD DVD promotion group announced on Monday that in Europe, HD DVD is the king of the 'attach rate' -- the average number of discs each person buys for their player.

Tags: hd, rate, ray, discs

14 November 2007, 10:05

Crave Talk: Bob Dylan is right to fear digital music

Crave His anti-war songs of the 1960s redefined the way a musician can influence and reflect the opinions of a generation. Whether digital music will prove as powerful a source of lyrical inspiration for Dylan as the Vietnam war remains to be seen.

Tags: war, listening, engineers, engineer

5 September 2006, 11:39

Back to the front: Battle for Middle Earth II

Crave Where the real-time strategy game genre was once thought moribund and repetitive, the 3D achievements of games like Warhammer 40K: Dawn of War and the Total War series in particular have pushed the RTS into new areas.

Tags: electronic arts, earth, war, battle

20 February 2006, 16:18

Crave Talk: Can anything save HD DVD?

Crave The surprise move of Warner to move to exclusive Blu-ray support has sunk any hope the HD DVD group ever had for winning the format war. Of course, the moment one or other of those companies leave, the war would certainly be over.

Tags: dvds, ray, war, hd

17 January 2008, 9:05

Stupidly big screen violence: InFocus Screenplay 7205

Crave Watching this movie on the InFocus Screenplay 7205 is the most visceral simulation of war man has yet invented. This is Ridley-Scott-branded war delivered at 1280x720 pixels and a 16:9 aspect ratio that makes every bit of American military hardware...

Tags: infocus, war, machine, die

15 September 2005, 10:24

CNET UK Podcast 111: Deafening silence from the Mars Phoenix rover

Crave We also talk about a new way America is dealing with the war on fat kids, by means of encouraging text messages. Though they'll probably spend even more time in front of the computer now full-length films are coming to Google's YouTube.There's an...

14 November 2008, 11:30

Blu Monday: Hitachi touting world's first Blu-ray camcorder?

Crave It's hard to get excited about a format war that seems more like an endurance slog, as Sony has been muttering about Blu-ray camcorders since way back in 2005. Even if Hitachi is first to finally open the format war on the camcorder front, Sony and...

Tags: hitachi, japanese, hd, disc

23 July 2007, 12:03

State of Play: Xbox 360

Crave Plus there's a nasty format war going on and it might end up obsolete (we doubt that, but still). Gears of War is an absolute ripsnorter. Now the cool kids have turned up: the PlayStation 3, the rich kid with the flash new car; and the Wii, the...

Tags: microsoft, party, dvd player, care

22 November 2006, 10:23

We can now reveal the winner of our £1,000 gaming comp...

Crave So you want to know who's the proud owner of an Xbox 360, a 32-inch Samsung LCD TV, Pro Evo 6, Gears of War and Oblivion? Our l33t gaming competition closed at the end of November and we have a winner, ladies and gents.

Tags: samsung, christmas, inch, gaming

15 December 2006, 11:47

What AV gear can we expect from CeBIT 2007?

Crave If the LG was fully HD DVD compliant and could utilise the format's full interactivity, we'd probably declare the war over. We always look forward to CeBIT, an opportunity to mix with a huge variety of tech people from all over the world and...

Tags: money, battle, players, hd

7 March 2007, 11:47

Crave Talk: Would the future of hi-def please stand up?

Crave Rejoice, you might think -- the high-definition format war is over before it's even begun. The smaller companies (in other words, any outside of Japan and Korea) do not have the level of resources necessary to fight the war, and will not even...

Tags: lg electronics, cd dvd, definition, universal

6 March 2006, 16:14