Microsoft had a swanky little event in a penthouse overlooking the Thames this morning and one of the many bits and bobs on show (check back soon for the games) was the Xbox 360's HD DVD drive. This ...

All you high-definition fanatics out there, take note: we have it on good authority that the Xbox 360's long-awaited HD-DVD drive is right around the corner, set to ship this Christmas. More ...

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 ...

Oh Microsoft. What were you thinking? When people point to Microsoft’s biggest folly of the last hardware generation, they’ll normally suggest either the Red Ring Of Death pandemic or an unhealthy ...

The setup is a little weird, in that when you pop in the drive, it detects it and gives you the HD DVD menu update we saw from before. Unfortunately, it's not that easy (nor was support entirely ...

Microsoft used a press briefing before the launch of the Tokyo Game Show to announce a number of Xbox 360 developments, including launch information for an external HD DVD drive and news of a ...

Toshiba on October 2 unveiled a slim HD DVD drive for notebooks, the SD-L902A, that can read and write to HD DVD, standard DVD and CD discs with sample shipments of the new drive scheduled to start by ...

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 ...