Microsoft had a swanky little event in a penthouse overlooking the Thames this morning and one of the many bits and bobs on show (check back soon for the games) was the Xbox 360's HD DVD drive. Hang ...

We may earn a commission from links on this page. Oh Microsoft. What were you thinking? When people point to Microsoft's biggest folly of the last hardware generation, they'll normally suggest either ...

Dan over on UNEASYsilence has come up with a interesting way to get a cheap HD-DVD drive for a PC - by using the HD-DVD drive designed for an Xbox 360! So, how hard is it to hack the HD-DVD drive to ...

World’s First Dedicated HD DVD Write Drive for the Desktop Supports Read and Write to All Main Optical Discs Toshiba brought the wide ranging capabilities of HD DVD to the desktop PC with the ...

Microsoft has been busy rolling out games, Xbox Live updates, and new console accessories all season long to keep the Xbox 360 from being forgotten during all the PlayStation 3 and Wii launch mayhem.

Suited for small slim drives used in notebook computers as well as for half-height drives in desktop PCs and consumer DVD recorders, the ATR0881 laser diode driver IC is offered as the smallest of its ...

TOKYO — Toshiba announced the world’s first slim HD DVD drive for notebook PCs that can read and write to HD DVD, standard DVD and CD discs. Sample shipments of the new drive, SD-L902A, are scheduled ...

Now that HD-DVD has imploded, I've been wondering what will happen to the company's highly-rated Qosmio G45, the first laptop in the U.S. to offer an HD-DVD player and recorder. HD-DVD may be a ...

NEC was busy showcasing PC-based high-definition DVD players and recorders at CeBIT. NEC presented the HR-1100 multireader 3-in-1 drive that can play HD DVDs as well as normal DVDs and CDs. The drive ...

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.