Paramount joining the Blu-ray camp would leave HD DVD likely to suffer the same fate as Sony’s now obsolete Betamax video technology, which lost out to VHS in a similar format war in the 1980s.

THE BATTLE to become the next-generation DVD standard has escalated, with Paramount Pictures becoming the first major movie studio to support both rival formats. Until Paramount’s announcement ...

Warner Brothers Home Entertainment announced Friday that it will begin offering its high-definition DVDs exclusively in the Blu-ray disc format, striking a major blow in the marketplace battle between ...

Paramount Home Entertainment has decided to offer HDTV content on both HD-DVD and Blu-ray Disc, it said Sunday.

Japan's Toshiba and its partners gained a much-needed boost in the next-generation DVD format war after Paramount Pictures and DreamWorks Animation said they would exclusively support HD DVD.

Warner Bros remains dual format, while Universal, and now Paramount, will only release videos in HD-DVD. "Toshiba and HD-DVD offered this deal because they are desperate.