Saturday, February 16, 2008

We barely knew ye

Toshiba put HD-DVD out of its misery today. Reuters confirmed this afternoon that it will cease manufacturing HD-DVD equipment, following earlier reports from Japan's NHK public broadcasting network.

This leaves Blu-Ray as the presumptive victor in the irrelevant optical disk format war. It now must face up to the real competition: the continuing success of DVD and the growing popularity of downloads, both on the internet and on-demand cable TV.
Wanna know what sucks the most? HD DVD has the potential to be a better format than Blu-Ray. The format wasn't completed unlike Blu-Ray which was at its peak. HD-DVD movies already came with more features, and the possibility was there for larger capacity after it was finalized. But in todays world money speaks louder than consumers who didn't even know those facts..

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