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Today Toshiba officially announced the discontinuation of their HD-DVD businesses.
A press release by Toshiba states that “Toshiba will begin to reduce shipments of HD DVD players and recorders to retail channels, aiming for cessation of these businesses by the end of March 2008.”
Also, from the press release, Toshiba will continue to support standard DVD but no Blu-Ray anytime soon.
What does it all mean? Blu-ray wins by knockout, since Toshiba was the chair company of the HD-DVD consortium. All hail the PlayStation 3.
Full press release after the jump:
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Summa looks down on Cami, and Kam-Ra would buy that for a dollar! We haven’t perfected time travel yet, but we’re working on it! Cami gives us a cheat code for Rock Band. We open up the phones and get some interesting calls.
Film director Michael Bay has once again spoken out in the debate over the next high definition format. Last time Michael expressed anger at his film Transformers not being available on Blu-Ray disk, but only HD-DVD and DVD. This time, Bay called out Microsoft for their interference and deliberate delay tactics. Below is a quote from his blog website:
What you don’t understand is corporate politics. Microsoft wants both formats to fail so they can be heroes and make the world move to digital downloads. That is the dirty secret no one is talking about. That is why Microsoft is handing out $100 million dollar checks to studios just embrace the HD-DVD and not the leading, and superior Blu-Ray. They want confusion in the market until they perfect the digital downloads. Time will tell and you will see the truth.
Mr. Bay calls Blu-Ray the “superior” format and hinted that Microsoft was behind the now infamous Paramount payoff.
Michael Bay’s blog can be found here.
In the war between the hi-def formats (Blu-ray supported by Sony and HD DVD supported by Microsoft), HD DVD has served Blu-ray a potentially fatal blow. Canadian electronics manufacturer Venturer is making available the first hi-def disc player for under $200. Continued…
