STUDIOS INDICATE NO HIGH-DEFINITION DVD'S BY XMAS

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	HIGH-DEFINITION DVD TALKS COLLAPSE IN JAPAN Jun 21 2005
	Sony Computer Entertainment President Ken Kutaragi has confirmed that talks between Sony and Toshiba about (more)
	SUMMIT CONFERENCE ON NEXT GENERATION DVD'S IN THE WORKS May 19 2005
	Toshiba and Sony, locked in a stalemate in talks aimed at deciding on a single (more)
	HYBRID HIGH-DEFINITION DVD SYSTEM IN WORKS Apr 21 2005
	After spending three years trying to gain support from the major studios for their rival (more)

STUDIOS INDICATE NO HIGH-DEFINITION DVD'S BY XMAS
Thursday, August 11 2005

Although Warner Bros., Paramount, and Universal all announced in January that they planned to release a slate of high-definition DVDs by Christmas time this year, two of the studios, Warner's and Paramount, now say they are likely to wait until 2006, and Universal is saying it's reconsidering its release schedule, Home Media Retailing magazine reported on its website Wednesday. The delay, they indicated, was dictated by the expectation that Toshiba and Sony, which have developed two competing high-definition video systems, will resolve their differences and agree on a single standard. "We are considering rolling back our launch in the hopes of a last-minute compromise, which would avoid two formats straining the marketplace," Jim Cardwell, president of Warner Home Video, told the magazine.

TOSHIBA IN HIGH-DEFINITION DVD ALLIANCE WITH MICROSOFT
Tuesday, June 28 2005
Like belligerents preparing for war, Sony and Toshiba are continuing to announce powerful new allies backing their incompatible systems for high-definition DVD's. Toshiba announced its latest ally on Monday as its president, Atsutoshi Nishida appeared at a news conference with Microsoft's Bill Gates in Tokyo where the two said they plan to develop high-definition DVD players together and also cooperate in developing a new line of mobile PCs. Toshiba has developed the HD-DVD format, which (more)

FORMAT WAR LIKELY TO BREAK OUT OVER HIGH-DEFINITION DVD'S
Monday, June 27 2005
With the first high-definition DVD players due to be introduced in the U.S. and Japanese markets by the Christmas season, the time for an agreement between the developers of two competing systems appears to be quickly running out, setting up the likelihood of a format war like the one between Betamax and VHS in the 1980s, the Los Angeles Times observed today. Josh Peterson, director of strategic alliances for Hewlett-Packard, which backs Sony's Blu-ray system, (more)