Toshiba said Tuesday it will no longer manufacture HD-DVDs, effectively ending the long-running battle with the rival Blu-ray for a dominant high-definition format. Toshiba said it made the decision to cease developing, manufacturing, and marketing HD-DVDs after 'recent major changes in the market'. It promised to continue offering support and service for all 1.3+ million Toshiba HD-DVDs sold so far.
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Member since:2005-07-06
Fully agreed! This whole mess could've been avoided if:
1. they kept working with Sony and 180+ other companies (source: http://www.blu-ray.com/faq/ section 1.3) back in 2005 to realize a unified format;
2. they didn't cowardly steal Paramount/Dreamworks from Blu-ray and made them sign an exclusive HD-DVD contract.
Now I can't wait for Transformers to be released on Blu-ray...it'll probably be the ultimate high-tech demonstration of what that platform is capable of! :-D
Member since:2006-02-04
Regarding Transformers. I'm not sure if it would be any different than the HD-DVD release (which I own and looks nice). Not sure if any of the stuff would truly be different as it's all dependent on the source material.
I have a couple of HD-DVDs and with some of them, the quality isn't all that exciting because the source footage wasn't all that great to begin with and no about of clean up was going to fix it.
Member since:2007-09-06
There will always be the "next generation" thing but hopefully the next format war end a little sooner.
For this generation of disk stored data, it's now smooth saily and all those who baught PS3's too get affordable disk readers seem to have guessed right.
Now too wait while the disk writers slowly drop in price to remotely reasonable.
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2005-07-06
From now on it wont be a gamble buying into the next generation
This is excelent news!