LAS VEGAS - March 16, 2006 - Sony Electronics today debuted its first Blu-ray Disc™ (BD) products in the U.S. , along with details on suggested pricing and availability for some of the new offerings.

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.

Development of High-Performance Reflective Film Enables Triple Layer Structure Comprised of Blu-ray Disc Layer and DVD Dual Layer JVC announced that it has developed the world's first Blu-ray/ DVD ...

Philips plans to show a Blu-ray disc drive at the upcoming Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas that has backwards compatibility with CDs and DVDs. Currently still a prototype, the device reads and ...

Blue Ray Technologies was expecting business to boom shortly after the format war concluded, and apparently the shock is in full effect. According to founder and chairman Erick Hansen, America's ...

Advocates of potential next-generation media formats appear en route to a significant competitive showdown. Equipment makers and replicators are monitoring the situation so they can adapt to whatever ...

The EL6900C is the world's first laser driver designed specifically for the new Blu-Ray Disc industry-standard disc-recording format. The complete laser diode driver includes a two-channel sample and ...

After steadily declining for the past five years, home entertainment sales have broken their downward trajectory, thanks in part to a 13.3% lift in Blu-ray Disc purchases. By Thomas K. Arnold More ...

Yash Raj Films have released their 11 films on Blue-ray disc to give consumers an experience of high definition viewing through the cutting edge technology format. Yash Raj Films (YRF) have released ...

Gamespot’s (exceedingly quality, for real) News section is reporting that the Playstation 3 may use the Blu-ray Disc format. A Sony director is quoted as saying, “We’d like to establish a ground by ...

Just as in the 1980s, when the Betamax and VHS video formats were battling it out for supremacy, the pornography industry will likely play a major role in determining which of the two blue-laser DVD ...