Blu-Ray launched another offensive in the DVD war in the form of the 20th Century Fox studio. Make no bones about it; it is a war as Sony, Toshiba and all the companies who’ve signed off on the respective high definition formats continue to look for an edge.

A survey sponsored by the Blu-Ray Disc Association (BDA) found that, SURPRISE, people like Blu-Ray technology better. Imagine everyone’s shock when BDA’s survey said that 4 times as many people said they liked Blu-Ray better when the survey BDA sponsored explained the differences to them.

Google has introduced another method users can refine their queries with by introducing a new advanced search feature focusing on numbers and their range.

The future of high-definition blue-laser DVDs will happen, but competing standards make the future a little less clear.

Famed Norwegian hacker Jon Lech Johansen, better known as DVD Jon, has taken the open source nature of Google’s newly launched, browser-based video player to heart evidently.

Toshiba adds a little Microsoft firepower to the high-density DVD war going on with Sony. The two companies announced today they would further their recent collaborations as they both work to develop the future of the HD-DVD format.

Somewhere Sony founder Akio Morita is smiling. As the world baby steps to a completely digital format for movies, music and other entertainment, VHS is slowly being left behind for the DVD format.

The warlord known as Sony rides back to camp. He tells his generals there could be no parley with the lord Toshiba. They cannot decide whose sword will rule. No compromise can be reached. He commanded his generals to ride and muster soldiers from all corners of the land to prepare for the War of the Blue Light.

The high-profile heart of the forthcoming PlayStation 3 will have key details disclosed in Barcelona today.

While neither Sony’s Blu-ray nor Toshiba’s HD-DVD have become the clear winner, consumers definitely lose.

Having the ability to label and refine search results is quite the hot topic among the search industry. Because search results can number in the millions, plus the fact that they can be quite convoluted, the ability to weed out unwanted results is much desired.

Blu-ray versus HD DVD, liquid crystal versus plasma, and how manufacturers want us to see in the future.

Iomega Corp. announced yesterday that is has received a patent for a nanotechnology storage method that will allow up to 100 times the capacity on DVDs.

The president of Matsushita, which supports Sony and its Blu-ray technology, tells rival Toshiba to back down in talks.

New partnership with Netflix connects Wal-Mart’s movie sales business with Netflix’s rental operations.

Sony and Toshiba stand like two old samurai waiting for the other to flinch in the DVD duel. Toshiba seems to be getting annoyed with the powerful Sony, the Shogun of Japanese electronics firms. Parley attempts remain at a standstill and Toshiba say little ground will be gained until Sony softens its attitude on the unification of the DVD formats.

After a protracted three-year battle over the structure of next-generation DVDs, an agreement may be at hand.

Toshiba announced recently they were adding a third layer to its HD-DVD format to increase the capacity to 45Gb. This is going to give them a much stronger competitor against Sony and perhaps give them some more bargaining room as Sony and Toshiba continue negotiations to develop a universal standard for DVDs based on the blue laser technology upgrades.

The two technology companies wish to avoid the VHS-Betamax conflict that marred early adoption of VCRs.

Relevancy. It’s something that drives the search engine industry in almost every aspect. From providing quality search results to contextual advertising, relevancy is crucial to any search engine’s success. The question is how do you define relevancy? More importantly, how do search engines define relevancy?

Sony added two new DVD burners to its offering in the 800 series. The internal DRU-800A and the external DRX-800UL burners support 4X DVD R Dual Layering technology and can burn roughly 8.5 gigs of video, audio or data onto a single DVD-R-UL. This will get you 4 hours of video.