Soon those ripped HD DVD files won't look quite so huge.

Blu-ray versus HD DVD format war could Betamax your discs.

Pretty Pony HD DVD crack gets ready for a ride.

Toshiba Kills HD DVD Panasonic Announces Slim Notebook Blu-ray Drive

However, he stopped short of expressing strong support for the HD DVD standard in particular.

That makes it one of the most inexpensive, high-quality HD DVD drives on the market.

In a completely unsurprising move, Sony picks at the wounds of the HD DVD consortium.

It dropped HD DVD in 2008 after losing the support of film studio Warner Bros Entertainment.

Whether this truly does mark the beginning of the end of HD DVD remains to be seen.

Then there's the ongoing war between the two competing high-def optical disc formats, Blu-ray and HD DVD.

Taiwan disc maker Ritek says it plans to start making rewritable discs for Blu-ray and HD DVD recorders.

Upon hearing the news, Toshiba's competing HD DVD group canceled a series of press events at this week's CES.

Toshiba will continue, however, to provide full product support and after-sales service for all owners of Toshiba HD DVD products.

Memory-Tech and Toshiba will propose the new disc to the HD DVD Forum, the industry body that defines DVD standards.

And costing just two Benjamins, this drive is quite possibly the finest low cost HD DVD player on the market.

But things change quickly, and once the studios dropped their support at CES, the end was near for HD DVD.