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LOS ANGELES--Microsoft on Monday offered the first glimpse of the external HD-DVD drive built for the Xbox 360 game console. Kevin Collins, senior program manager at Microsoft, demonstrated the HD-DVD ...

Experimentalists at UNEASYsilence have outlined how you can turn the Xbox 360 HD DVD drive into a Windows-compatible HD DVD drive -- all you need are the proper drivers. If that wasn't enough, they ...

Almost a year ago at CES 2006, Bill Gates announced during his opening night keynote speech that an HD-DVD add-on drive would be released for the Xbox 360. That was back when we thought the ...

Is there anything stopping me (short of voiding the warranty) from replacing the XBox 360's built-in DVD unit with the HD-DVD unit sold separately from the system? Has anybody tried this yet? I'd much ...

NEC has developed a prototype optical drive with a single optical head that can read CDs, DVDs and high-density DVDs. The drive, announced on Monday, appears to solve some of the compatibility issues ...

Microsoft has revealed that Xbox 360 will be compatible with the Toshiba-based next-generation HD-DVD format - the main rival to Sony's Blu-ray disc format, which will be part of PlayStation 3 ...

Industry giants Intel and Microsoft announced today that they would endorse Toshiba's HD DVD standard over rival Sony's Blu-ray format. This marks the end of a long dry spell for HD DVD, which as of ...

HD DVD fans are getting a double helping of good news this morning thanks to Toshiba. Their SD-L912A is not only the first HD DVD-RW drive for laptops, but measuring in at half an inch thick, it’s ...

Last week the rumormill was churning again about the black Xbox 360 and today this picture of a black 360 HD DVD drive landed in our inbox. This dark drive it is a special edition model only given to ...

The format war between Blu-ray and HD DVD was always going to be ugly, but its Hiroshima moment might well have been the launch of the Sony PlayStation 3. Overnight, half a million Blu-ray players had ...