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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.
Two years ago people were warned that HD-DVD was a dead format.
Toshiba would have given up with most of the electronics and media companies putting their weight behind BluRay but for Microsoft seeing a way to try to sabotage the next gen movie format and came to Toshiba's side.
Thus the world had to listen to endless FUD filling the Net from the Microsoft faithful as they lined up behind the unwanted and inferior HD-DVD completely oblivious to the fact that Microsoft didn't give a damn about the format.
It is the fanatical and foaming at the mouth Xbox fanbase that made the past year so miserable for everyone for nothing more than another despicable but completely inept bit of corporate sabotage on Microsoft's part.
Awesome!
Suck it your miserable fucking loser.
Hence the reason for region encoding.
Which is almost certainly illegal (shame no one has been sued yet).
http://blog.nexusuk.org
Well in that case they must think 'Ze Germans' are still on there way because even the new housing is built the same way.