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Toshiba Execs Declare HD DVD Not Dead Yet

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the they're-doing-science-and-they're-still-alive dept.

Lucas123 writes "HD DVD proponent Toshiba remains defiant that its format will not succumb to the mounting tsunami of support for Blu-ray Discs. Akio Ozaka, head of Toshiba America Consumer Products, said at CES today that he was surprised by Warner's decision." It should also be noted that the HD DVD group has cancelled many of their meetings at CES.

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  1. Re:Toshiba by ChronosWS · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    What's interesting to my mind though was that the quality of movies for Blu-Ray was so inferior. When we went to get our next-gen equipment, we surveyed the movie landscape. To this day, BluRay still has fewer good movies for it than Blu Ray. We tried to buy every movie of interest, and HD DVD had at least 4:1 ratio of quality flicks.

    Since I already own both players, I guess I am technically format-agnostic. I would rather have had the region-less, less DRM-crippled format win, but as we all know this is not to be for our generation.

  2. Re:Toshiba Fell Victim To The Xbox Demographic by Daniel+Phillips · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    So it goes like this:
    1. Add Blu-Ray to console
    2. Be a year late to market, more expensive than competition, and overall the worst selling console
    3. ???
    4. Dominate the HD market! A nice summary, but your ??? is in the wrong place, it is really more like:

    1. Add Blu-Ray to console
    2. Be a year late to market, more expensive than competition, and overall the worst selling console (but still sell millions)
    3. Dominate the HD market!
    4. ???
    --
    Have you got your LWN subscription yet?
  3. Re:Excellent news by foreverdisillusioned · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Errrr... well I suppose that's a possibility, but that's not what happened with Betamax, was it? They remained more expensive than VHS, and maintained a niche hobbyist/professional market.

    Of course, in that case Betamax was arguably the superior format. HD-DVD is not, (except in terms of DRM, but then is that really important to people who are burning their own?)

  4. Re:Toshiba Fell Victim To The Xbox Demographic by svunt · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    And that will sort out your choice of Hi-Def playback how, exactly? Try to follow the conversation.