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Toshiba Quits HD DVD Business (Official) | |
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| Time: 11:14 EST/16:14 GMT | News Source: Press Release | Posted By: Byron Hinson | ||
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Toshiba said Tuesday it will no longer develop, make or market HD DVD players and recorders, handing a victory to rival Blu-ray disc technology in the format battle for next-generation video. "We concluded that a swift decision would be best," Toshiba President Atsutoshi Nishida told reporters at his company's Tokyo offices. The move would make Blu-ray backed by Sony Corp., Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., which makes Panasonic brand products, and five major Hollywood movie studios the winner in the battle over high-definition DVD formatting that began several years ago. |
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| #1 By 21705 (142.213.176.140) at Tuesday, February 19, 2008 11:31:38 AM |
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God bless all those who invested in HD-DVD. It was needed to make things advance but it's never funny when in the end you are in the loser camp.
Glad I'm not into HD yet. |
| #2 By 116 (66.193.251.146) at Tuesday, February 19, 2008 12:00:18 PM |
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Yeah it kind of sucks but its not the end of the world... I got the 360 HD DVD addon for my Birthday with Matrix and a slew of other HD DVD's... It will be interesting to see how many people pick up a PS3 just for the BluRay feature. The PS3 remains the cheapest and most future proof blu-ray player out there. Everyone was saying this is a loss for Microsoft but their VC1 which is in blu ray gives them royalties from every bluray player and software sold. Either way Microsoft wins. I wonder how long it will be before the Blu Ray add on comes out for MS. I really hope HDi makes it onto a future Blu Ray rev (in practice it smokes anything the BD-Java people have made).
Peace, RA |
| #3 By 3 (86.1.38.147) at Tuesday, February 19, 2008 12:03:18 PM |
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I'm sure it won't be long before MS release a blu-ray add-on, they'll need to and there is already call for it from their userbase in the forums and on the web and as you state, either way Microsoft will get some money from it all.
I can see the PS3 sales picking up, although they already are anyway as I don't buy into Microsoft's excuse of low inventory at the moment for their reasoning for lower sales. This will be the year of the PS3 - but will it be enough to overtake Xbox 360, who knows. |
| #4 By 2960 (72.196.195.185) at Tuesday, February 19, 2008 12:15:20 PM |
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MS's smart move would be to release a dual-format player so all their HDDVD users are taken care of as well.
TL |
| #5 By 3653 (65.80.181.153) at Tuesday, February 19, 2008 03:31:00 PM |
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forget the xbox bluray drive. just give users a netflix and an amazon unbox blade.
ps... i still wont use either. |
| #6 By 39852 (69.70.86.250) at Thursday, February 21, 2008 12:52:58 PM |
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If they don't up the bitrate on downloadable content, I'll never be watching it. It looks like garbage. If anyone says otherwise, I'd question if they really have an HDTV or not. Personally one thing I notice on the 360 vs PS3 versions of games is the movie quality during cinematics. Yeah I realize some games are doing in-engine cinematics now so that's fine, but they can't always do that with fast scene changes. Also, extra videos they released on the 120GB Elite HDD also don't look that great. And then there's the download time... Plus the fact that it'll be harder to lend a buddy your movie and borrow some of theirs... And how exactly do you sell them used at blockbuster or whatever? I guess you can't trade them in and get some new movies either...
You know, I think most people will just be sticking to physical media. |
| #7 By 3653 (65.80.181.153) at Thursday, February 21, 2008 03:15:34 PM |
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Physical media use is on an irreversible decline. Anyone 25 years or younger (and a few 30-somethings like myself) have an absolute AVERSION to it. From the planned obsolescence that comes from the scratch-prone media (yeah, please someone stand up for the manufacturers really trying hard to fix that 20+ year problem. I'll drop kick your response in two seconds), to the constant price increases (despite the fact that each media technology jump gives them more scale and cheaper manufacturing), to the arrogant attitudes of the music and movie industries in general. This post was edited by mooresa56 on Thursday, February 21, 2008 at 15:16. |
