BEIJING -- China, the world's biggest maker of DVD (Digital Versatile Disc) players, moved on Tuesday to create its next-generation rival -- the EVD -- the first step toward creating a possible new ...

While Sony (Blu-ray) and Toshiba (HD-DVD) go head-to-head with competing high-definition DVD technology, Hitachi-Maxell and InPhase Technologies are working on a disc that will hold 300GB of ...

Ahh, the simplicity of life in China. No technology nail-biting over which next-generation DVD technology to embrace. Instead, the people victorious march on their own path with EVD (enhanced ...

Just to make this whole mess over which standard will succeed the DVD, a Chinese business consortium and two Chinese DVD manufacturers are rolling out the Enhanced Versatile Disc, or EVD. The idea is ...

As if anyone needed yet another high-capacity optical disc format to contend with, a company called New Medium Enterprises has been showing of their new 20GB high-definition Versatile MultiLayer Disc, ...

In the past year, sales of DVD players have declined by 15 percent. Nov. 5, 2007 — -- After the compact disc ushered in the first digital music revolution, there were questions about whether the ...

Despite the widespread belief upon their introduction to the market in the early 1980s that CDs would safely store data encoded on them forever, CDs and DVDs are actually susceptible to damage from ...

I felt especially embarassed for the booth promoting the FVD red-laser video disc, a Taiwanese “alternative to DVD.” Unlike HD-DVD and Blu-ray, which increase the storage of standard-sized optical ...