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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 Fell Victim To The Xbox Demographic by dabraun · · Score: 4, Informative

    Toshiba should have demanded that the 360 carry an HD-DVD drive standard. The addon carries extra bulk, and if you combine that with the cost of the 360, you might as well have just bought a PS3 instead.


    How would they demand that? Microsoft simply does not care about HD-DVD enough to risk tanking it's game console like Sony did (by forcing the price up for something that doesn't actually help games).
  2. Re:blueray hd dvd? by DrEldarion · · Score: 4, Informative

    That makes HD-DVDs as scratchable as regular DVDs (read: very).

    From what I hear, that coating on Blu-ray is very good.

  3. Not just Sony! by closer2it · · Score: 5, Informative

    This is *NOT* just a Sony Corporation technology! It's an Association of company's

    From wikipedia:

    The current 18 board members (as of December 2007) are:
    * Apple Inc.
    * Dell
    * Hewlett Packard
    * Hitachi
    * LG Electronics
    * Mitsubishi Electric
    * Panasonic (Matsushita Electric)
    * Pioneer Corporation
    * Royal Philips Electronics
    * Samsung Electronics
    * Sharp Corporation
    * Sony Corporation
    * Sun Microsystems
    * TDK Corporation
    * Thomson
    * Twentieth Century Fox
    * Walt Disney Motion Pictures Group / Buena Vista Home Entertainment
    * Warner Home Video Inc. (Exclusively as of January 4 2008)