The Digital Bits
Encyclopedia
The Digital Bits is a DVD
-related website, established in 1997 by editor Bill Hunt. It includes frequent news updates about upcoming DVD releases, images of upcoming DVD cover art, and DVD reviews.
Additionally, the staff of The Digital Bits annually announce the winners of their "Bitsy Awards," recognizing achievements in DVD production throughout the year. Past winners of "Best DVD" Bitsy include the Ultimate Matrix
Collection and The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring — Special Extended Edition.
In 2007, The Digital Bits announced that it would no longer remain neutral in the high definition disc format war
and, after careful consideration, sided with Blu-ray Disc
. Their decision, an effort to save readers from buying a format destined to failure, was based on careful analysis of studio, manufacturing, and retail support of the competing formats. The Bits chose wisely: by March 2008, HD-DVD was discontinued.
DVD
A DVD is an optical disc storage media format, invented and developed by Philips, Sony, Toshiba, and Panasonic in 1995. DVDs offer higher storage capacity than Compact Discs while having the same dimensions....
-related website, established in 1997 by editor Bill Hunt. It includes frequent news updates about upcoming DVD releases, images of upcoming DVD cover art, and DVD reviews.
Additionally, the staff of The Digital Bits annually announce the winners of their "Bitsy Awards," recognizing achievements in DVD production throughout the year. Past winners of "Best DVD" Bitsy include the Ultimate Matrix
The Matrix series
The Matrix is a science fiction action franchise created by Andy and Larry Wachowski and distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures. The series began with the 1999 film The Matrix and later spawned two sequels; The Matrix Reloaded and The Matrix Revolutions, both released in 2003, thus forming a trilogy...
Collection and The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring — Special Extended Edition.
In 2007, The Digital Bits announced that it would no longer remain neutral in the high definition disc format war
Comparison of high definition optical disc formats
This article compares the technical specifications of multiple high definition formats, including HD DVD and Blu-ray Disc; two mutually incompatible, high definition optical disc formats that, beginning in 2006, attempted to improve upon and eventually replace the DVD standard...
and, after careful consideration, sided with Blu-ray Disc
Blu-ray Disc
Blu-ray Disc is an optical disc storage medium designed to supersede the DVD format. The plastic disc is 120 mm in diameter and 1.2 mm thick, the same size as DVDs and CDs. Blu-ray Discs contain 25 GB per layer, with dual layer discs being the norm for feature-length video discs...
. Their decision, an effort to save readers from buying a format destined to failure, was based on careful analysis of studio, manufacturing, and retail support of the competing formats. The Bits chose wisely: by March 2008, HD-DVD was discontinued.