Toshiba Paid Off To Drop HD-DVD?

TripleP writes "Was Toshiba paid-off to concede the HD battle? There are some signs that may point to this as a direct result of the ended format war. Reuters has reported that Sony has agreed to sell its Cell and RSX fabrication plants in Japan to Toshiba. The WSJ is reporting that is is a joint venture in the form of 60% Toshiba,%20 Sony and %20 Sony Computer Entertainment Inc."

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Re:PS3 = Still Sucks

[Nick Fury]

THIS IS SLASHDOT MAN!!!! Your title should be PS3 == Still Sucks. GAH!!

Apologies for a somewhat offtopic post...

[Enleth]

But what, for the $(DEITY)'s sake, is going on with this damn "it's"!? It's the THIRD TIME in the past 24 hours and hell knows which in the past few weeks that the editors can't spot such a basic, common mistake. I'm not a native English speaker - not even a near-native - and I can see them, hunderds of slashdotters see them, they look just silly, if not discrediting, yet they are still there. Maybe the submission system should highlight every "it's" in red for the editors reviewing the stories, just in case it's a mistake, or something like that?

HD DVD could still come back

[thanksforthecrabs]

If the Church of Scientology bought bout the format and produced those groovy Xenu speeches on them. Imagine -- a free HD flick with each E-reading.

Re:Standards should be set by engineers, not PHBs!

[IceFox]

So KDE or Gnome? We sure know how to choose standards alright.