Update - June 19, 19:30 Over in the HEXUS.community, our own Matt Davey pointed out that PLAY.com is already advertising blank Blu-ray Disc media for sale, though not HD DVD blanks as yet.

to burn your own kind of 'HD DVD' discs onto normal blank DVDs. These hold about three times the data of a conventional DVD and should be playable in HD DVD players and PC drives. 5. Most HD DVDs ...

The high-definition movie disc battle between HD DVD and Blu-ray Disc can be traced all the way back to 2000, when companies began experimenting with using new blue lasers in optical disc systems.

HD-DVD is a new disc format that uses blue lasers to achieve ... in an interview. The blank media, which only became available days before Cebit began, is single-sided so can store up to 15GB ...

Ritek, the second largest Taiwan-based producer of blank optical discs, has obtained OEM orders for blank 2x HD DVD-R (recordable, write once) discs from Toshiba, with shipments to begin in the ...

Sony’s three-sentence press release confirmed similar death dates for its blank MiniDisc ... than-half the size of those in a DVD. A traditional Blu-ray disc holds about five times as much ...

Ritek, the second largest Taiwan-based maker of blank optical discs, on October 30 announced it will launch HD DVD-R (recordable, write once) and HD DVD-RW (rewritable) discs under its own brand ...

The battle between the two competing next-generation optical disc formats, HD DVD and Blu-ray, is shaping up to be this generation's VHS versus Betamax. HD DVD has the slight advantage of getting ...

All of this reminded us of the time Microsoft decided to get involved in the last physical disc format war, which happened in the mid-2000s. It was a battle between Blu-ray and HD DVD and in the ...

To coincide with the launch of the new laptop, Hitachi Maxell is putting blank HD DVD-R media on the market for about 1,500 yen per disc.