After first appearing on Blu-ray earlier this year, HD DVD owners can now also enjoy the classic arcade game Dragon’s Lair in full high definition. Making his HD DVD debut this August, Dirk the Daring swings in to action on the Microsoft Xbox 360 with HD DVD add-on drive and standalone HD DVD movie players.

Bringing further heat to the burgeoning HD DVD format, Universal Studios Home Entertainment (USHE) will release more than 100 new film and television titles in 2007. Perennial favorites such Scarface and instant classics like 40-Year-Old Virgin, Battlestar Galactica S1 and Oscar®-winning Brokeback Mountain will be joined by dozens of new titles released day and date with the DVD. Since the format’s inception in April 2006, USHE has released 60 titles on HD DVD, and currently boasts four of the top 10 best-selling HD DVDs year-to-date, including Casino, Serenity, Fearless and Miami Vice.

And now there are three? According to reports today from The New York Times, Time Warner will be showing a new disc called Total HD at the upcoming CES trade show in Las Vegas that will host both Blu-ray and HD DVD content on a single disc. The move comes as Blu-ray and HD DVD are fighting a bitter format war the likes we haven’t seen since VHS versus Beta. The new disc is slated to be more expensive than a traditional DVD release of a movie and can play on HD DVD players including the external drive of a Microsoft Xbox 360 game system or Blu-ray players including the hard-to-find Sony Playstation 3. The question is will consumers care?

As the war between Blu-ray and HD DVD battles on, Warner patented the all-in-one disc, containing a movie both in Blu-ray and HD DVD as well as Standard DVD. Just recently New Medium Enterprises announced that they have actually developed a technology that is capable of accomplishing this feat. However, the fees involved with the creation of these combo discs could very well hinder their production. These new discs would require licensing fees for three different versions of a film as well as most likely requiring the consumer to purchase yet another player, not in existence, to play the multi-layered discs. You may have heard of New Medium Enterprises when they announced early this year that they developed a 20-layer DVD that is capable of storing 100GB of data and prices of the discs and players are comparable to current DVDs.

MIPS Technologies, Inc. and Dolby Laboratories, Inc. today announced that the companies will deliver next-generation audio technology across all segments of home entertainment, including the set-top box, HD DVD, and Blu-ray Disc markets. MIPS Technologies is the first processor IP company to support the new Dolby Digital Plus technology. The newly optimized codec from Dolby Laboratories has been approved for use with all MIPS32 processor cores. Dolby Digital Plus is Dolby's next-generation home entertainment audio technology designed for high-definition programming and media. Providing the same high quality available today with Dolby Digital, Dolby Digital Plus requires less bandwidth and maintains compatibility with millions of existing Dolby Digital receivers. Additionally, Dolby Digital Plus has the power and flexibility to maximize the full audio potential of the newest HD DVD and Blu-ray Disc formats -- so listeners get even higher-quality audio, more channels, and superior multi-channel audio performance.