Sunday, February 17, 2008

HD DVD dead... No More Format War... Go Buy A Blu Ray Player


From AICN, (excerpt)Depending who you are... you're either jubilant or morose today - because it's pretty much over. Sources inside Toshiba have begun leaking to the press - that Toshiba is no longer going to be manufacturing HD DVD players - and is abandoning the format altogether. Apparently, this decision is going to cost Toshiba hundreds of millions of dollars -

In the last few months, Sony has completely and totally flanked and surrounded HD-DVD. It started with the Warner Brothers move, when Warner's announced their decision to become dedicated to the BLU RAY format beginning this June - the world could feel a seismic shift. Then in a series of announcements from BEST BUY to NETFLIX to the most recent WAL-MART support for Blu Ray and abandonment of the HD DVD format... well, the rush to bury HD DVD has become quite aggressive.

2 comments:

Johnny Sweatpants said...

I'm not going near those things until someone can convince me even slightly that it is a significant improvement over DVDs.

Octopunk said...

Yes, yes, yes. My eyes will have to pop all the way out of my head from the picture, or I'll have to get a surprise suitcase full of money.

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