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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:It's only MOSTLY dead. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Redundant

    God help me for posting this, but you knew it was only a matter of time...


    It's official; ComputerWorld now confirms: HD DVD is dying

    One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleaguered HD DVD community when IDG confirmed that HD DVD market share has dropped yet again, now down to less than a fraction of 1 percent of all home theater systems. Coming close on the heels of a recent ComputerWorld survey which plainly states that HD DVD has lost more market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. HD DVD is collapsing in complete disarray, as fittingly exemplified by falling dead last in the recent CES public survey.

    You don't need to be a Kreskin to predict HD DVD's future. The hand-writing is on the wall: HD DVD faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for HD DVD because HD DVD is dying. Things are looking very bad for HD DVD. As many of us are already aware, HD DVD continues to lose market share. Red lasers flow like a river of blood.

    Toshiba is the most endangered of them all, having lost 93% of its core HD DVD developers. The sudden and unpleasant departures of long time Toshiba HD DVD developers Guy Smiley and Rosco P. Coltrane only serve to underscore the point more clearly. There can no longer be any doubt: HD DVD is dying.

    All major surveys show that HD DVD has steadily declined in market share. HD DVD is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If HD DVD is to survive at all it will be among videophile dilettante dabblers. HD DVD continues to decay. Nothing short of a cockeyed miracle could save HD DVD from its fate at this point in time. For all practical purposes, HD DVD is dead.

    Fact: HD DVD is dying