Samsung Electronics, a market leader and award-winning innovator in consumer electronics, announced today the launch of its Blu-ray Resource Center which will be hosted on the company's web site at www.samsung.com/bluraysupport.

The battle between two rival high definition formats for video disks has been decided in favor of Blu-ray, which was jointly developed by Sony, Samsung, Philips and other companies. Mike O'Sullivan reports, a U.S. manufacturer based in Washington State has embraced the new technology, and sees a bright future for it.

The battle between the two high definition optical disc formats, Blu-ray and HD DVD has ended after sole HD DVD manufacturer Toshiba has announced it will no longer produce HD DVD players.

Warner Bros. Entertainment will start to release its products only on Blu-ray disks from June 1, 2008. It also became known that Paramount and DreamWorks animation amended their contracts with HD DVD makers to win an opportunity to terminate their partnership if Warner Bros. supported Blu-ray.

Imation Corp. exclusive licensee of the "TDK Life on Record" recording media brand, today announced the global release of 8cm recordable Blu-ray Discs. Available in both BD-R (recordable) and BD-RE (re-recordable), each TDK 8cm Blu-ray Disc offers 7.5 gigabytes of capacity, ample to store 60 minutes of full-quality high-definition video.

Blockbuster is going to rent high definition DVDs only in Blu-ray format. 1450 new stores will be opened in July offering only Blu-ray rental.

NVIDIA Corporation, the worldwide leader in programmable graphics processor technologies, today announced the extension of the award-winning NVIDIA GeForce 8 Series line-up to include three new graphics processing units (GPUs), bringing high-resolution gaming, stunning Microsoft Windows Vista graphics, and stellar HD DVD and Blu-ray video playback to virtually everyone regardless of budget.