Toshiba To Halt HD-DVD Production

Multiple users have written to tell us that Toshiba is planning to halt production of devices related to HD-DVD. According to Japanese broadcasting network NHK, Toshiba will lose "hundreds of millions of dollars" as the format war finally draws to a close. Regardless, investors are pleased that Toshiba has made the decision to cut its losses. This comes after a last-ditch price cut was unable to prevent Wal-mart from throwing their lot in with Blu-ray, although some sources suggest that Wal-mart was already aware of Toshiba's plans to withdraw from fight.

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whew, fewer syllables

[Anonymous Coward]

Blu-Ray is so much easier on the tongue than a mouthful of acronym(s).

Re:whew, fewer syllables

[ledow]

Yeah, they would have been much more accepted if they had pronounced it "Heidi DVD". :-)

I always think the funniest acronym is PXE UNDI - it sounds like fairy knicker to me.

Re:whew, fewer syllables

[AvitarX]

Imagine the confusion when Hard Disk camcorders became available.

Re:whew, fewer syllables

[Tony Hoyle]

Blu-Ray is so much easier on the tongue than a mouthful of acronym(s).

I'm not sure something that can be (and frequently is) pronounced 'Blurry' is a great name for an HD format either...

Re:whew, fewer syllables

[The Qube]

Not to burst your bubble, but Sony has won pretty much every format war:
3.5" Floppy Disc - today's format is based on Sony design
Compact Disc - developed by Sony and Philips
DVD - developed by Sony and Philips
Digital Audio Tape - de-facto standard in the music and professional audio industry
Beta - the standard tape format in the video industry for the past 20 years

Re:Better luck next time

[Jafafa Hots]

Exactly. When will huge multinational corporations stop forcing competition down people's throats and realize that what consumers want is monopolies, lack of choice and the resulting high prices!

Sony won a format war...

[beset]

And in other news, satan is ice skating to work today.

Re:Better luck next time

[Charcharodon]

Left, right it doesn't really matter. I took me all of two weeks to stop feeling weird driving on the left and a month to stop making random right lane errors.

The only thing that I find unfamthomable is the use of some of the colors on the road.

For example they only use white paint for the lines. In the States they use white and yellow. You can tell the difference real quick which lanes are for your direction of traffic (white) and which is the divider line (yellow). I've had more than a few moments of panic where I could not tell for the life of me which lanes were which.

I take that back there are two things about driving in the UK, the second is do you people believe in F'ing street/road signs? Considering that the names of the streets change every 3 blocks and they don't run in a straight line more than 25 yards at a go, it would be simply amazing to have both the street and the cross street names on a sign, you are lucky just to even have a cross street that you can see from the road you are travelling on.

I foresee a GPS in my immediate future.

Re:Better luck next time

[0xdeadbeef]

Toshiba will think twice next time when it comes to forcing competing formats on consumers.

I bet you post comments on YouTube.

For Sale

[PinkyDead]

1 HD-DVD Player, never used. Best offer accepted.

(Please...)

Err.

[Xenex]

Yes.

PCMCIA

[smittyoneeach]

People Can't Memorize Computer Industry Acronyms.