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Toshiba Making Funeral Plans for HD DVD
Blue Light Special writes "With HD DVD on life support, Toshiba is reportedly preparing to bow to the inevitable and allow HD DVD to expire quietly. 'While denying that a decision on the fate of HD DVD has been made, a Toshiba marketing exec left the door wide open. "Given the market developments in the past month, Toshiba will continue to study the market impact and the value proposition for consumers, particularly in light of our recent price reductions on all HD DVD players," Jodi Sally, VP of marketing for Toshiba America Consumer Products, said.'" A few folks have also noted that Wal-mart is joining the Blu-ray train, further lowering the stock of HD DVD.
Down with Microsoft!
Too bad that Slashdot has turned into effectively an informercial site for companies like Apple or a FUD spreader for companies like Toshiba/Microsoft for the dead HD-DVD format with sleazy editors like Zonk.
Don't say you weren't warned long about about HD-DVD. You have no one but yourself to blame if you are stuck with hundreds to thousands of dollars on a dead format.
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>>Am I the only one who doesn't give a damn one way or the other?
Yes.
"You heard it here first"
I highly suspect that when all the players finally surrender to Blu-ray that Sony is going to pull a serious hidden rabbit out of its ass.
Prediction the PS3 is currently and always has been HD-DVD compatible, making it so was one of the delay reasons during PS3 launch. Sony wanted to be sure they had everything right to make it so. Right now the HD-DVD compatibility is turned off in the firmware. Once the battle dust settles we will see an announcement that in the next firmware the compatibility will be turned on, see Sony helping ya out! Wasn't that nice of us. How when your early adopter HD Unit dies that's alright you can use your PS3. You do have a PS3 right? No thats OK, we'll be happy to sell you one.
Lets examine this, Blu-Ray and HD-DVD are practically the same thing, they only vary slightly in some small technical details. I suspect that those variations hardware wise are accounted for in the PS3 hardware. And well, the software side, thats what PS3 does best.
Power Corrupts,Absolute Power Corrupts Absolutely, leaving one person(group)in charge is absolutely corrupt.
That's great.. I'm still not buying either, DVDs still work fine and are cheaper.
You people with your 100" TV are in the minority.
If you need large amounts of space optical media is a shitty choice unless the need is for something you can pitch out the car window once it's been scratched. I'll take external harddrives and flash drives any day over crappy discs.
Since copyrights and patents are a legally granted right to monopoly I have a hard time swallowing that it's the opposite of the original intention. I'll agree that the abuse isn't good, and the current time limits are perverse, but the whole point is to eliminate competition for specific works to increase the profit potential and hence the motivation to create more works.
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