What's up with HD DVD?

re: What's up with HD DVD?

GhostWalker38 — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 15:03:13 GMT

It's official, Blu-Ray won

news.yahoo.com/.../japan_toshiba

re: What's up with HD DVD?

madpostman — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 14:21:04 GMT

Not worried about HD-DVD or Bluray. I have decided to no longer play the video disc game. Instead I will download movies I want to watch and save lots of $$$ by not having to purchase a Bluray player and movies (which will sit on a shelf for years never to be used again). I am sorry to see HD DVD lose out as it seemed to be the superior format for hi def movies.

re: What's up with HD DVD?

Crono Breaker — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 14:17:36 GMT

Everybody knows that BLUE RAY gonnna win this battle comon, more quality and more space so?

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TheFortyFourth — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 13:35:49 GMT

To be honest...I could care less. As long as the game system I purchase has good games on it then so be it. HDDVD and Blu-Ray both are just side effects to what should be a gaming system first and foremost. Make no mistake...I own an Xbox but am not opposed to the PS3, but right now the Xbox simply has better games. A simple look at the past year and the list of hot games shows that in the gaming arena Xbox is the current leader. When the PS3 begins to put more 1st party killer apps then I will consider the switch or the possibilty of owning both systems.

re: What's up with HD DVD?

Monkey65 — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 12:58:59 GMT

Looks like the Sony fanboys are out in force on the Gamerscoreblog. Quite sad really that they're going on about a movie format which Sony themselves created. I didn't buy into any of this format war nonsense, so I'm happy to have no part in the fallout which follows. All this will be redundant soon anyway when downloads become more and more popular over physical media.

re: What's up with HD DVD?

Hex Blade — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 12:41:55 GMT

Now what are all us HD-DVD drive owners going to do with our HD drives now?? What a waste of money. I'm going to to part exchange mine (and all my HD-DVD's) for a PS3. Not for the games mind, but purely for the blue-ray player. PS3 is shite other than that. At least the Xbox360 is still the best as a 'games' console.

re: What's up with HD DVD?

Jeronimo66 — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 12:03:10 GMT

rumor guys xbox 360 with bluray drive built in and for current xbox 360 owners an external bluray drive lol yesterday sony fans were rejoicing claiming victory for ps3 now with this rumor they will be singing a different tune LOL

re: What's up with HD DVD?

Aussie Gamer — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 11:38:00 GMT

Toshiba Announces Discontinuation of HD DVD Businesses

oshiba Corporation today announced that it has undertaken a thorough review of its overall strategy for HD DVD and has decided it will no longer develop, manufacture and market HD DVD players

and recorders. This decision has been made following recent major changes in the market. Toshiba will continue, however, to provide full product support and after-sales service for all owners of Toshiba HD DVD products.

HD DVD was developed to offer consumers access at an affordable price to high-quality, high definition content and prepare them for the digital convergence of tomorrow where the fusion of consumer electronics and IT will continue to progress.

"We carefully assessed the long-term impact of continuing the so-called 'next-generation format war' and concluded that a swift decision will best help the market develop," said Atsutoshi Nishida, President and CEO of Toshiba Corporation. "While we are disappointed for the company and more importantly, for the consumer, the real mass market opportunity for high definition content remains untapped and Toshiba is both able and determined to use our talent, technology and intellectual property to make digital convergence a reality."

Toshiba will continue to lead innovation, in a wide range of technologies that will drive mass market access to high definition content. These include high capacity NAND flash memory, small form factor hard disk drives, next generation CPUs, visual processing, and wireless and encryption technologies. The company expects to make forthcoming announcements around strategic progress in these convergence technologies.

Toshiba will begin to reduce shipments of HD DVD players and recorders to retail channels, aiming for cessation of these businesses by the end of March 2008. Toshiba also plans to end volume production of HD DVD disk drives for such applications as PCs and games in the same timeframe, yet will continue to make efforts to meet customer requirements. The company will continue to assess the position of notebook PCs with integrated HD DVD drives within the overall PC business relative to future market demand.

This decision will not impact on Toshiba's commitment to standard DVD, and the company will continue to market conventional DVD players and recorders. Toshiba intends to continue to contribute to the development of the DVD industry, as a member of the DVD Forum, an international organization with some 200 member companies, committed to the discussion and defining of optimum optical disc formats for the consumer and the related industries.

Toshiba also intends to maintain collaborative relations with the companies who joined with Toshiba in working to build up the HD DVD market, including Universal Studios, Paramount Pictures, and DreamWorks Animation and major Japanese and European content providers on the entertainment side, as well as leaders in the IT industry, including Microsoft, Intel, and HP. Toshiba will study possible collaboration with these companies for future business opportunities, utilizing the many assets generated through the development of HD DVD.

www.pr-inside.com/toshiba-announces-discontinuation-of-r443917.htm

re: What's up with HD DVD?

Hybrid Alien — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 10:54:46 GMT

Ill miss you HD DVD :( It was good times I will always love you xxx

re: What's up with HD DVD?

SlapnutzUK — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 10:05:29 GMT

As someone who sold his HD-DVD drive back in Jan 2007 ready for the jump to PS3 / BR I can only say I am not the least bit surprised.

HD-DVD was on a shakey ground to begin with. The PS3 had the advantage of being the cheapest BR player on the market and it was a games console. It's a no brainer. You have two markets buying it the HD movie buffs and the gamers. By proxy the gamers will start to buy BR movies. The same happened with the PS2 and its DVD capabilities.

Add to this the fact MS wanted its backed format to fail so that it can push its user base of 10 million users to buying HD downloads...its not like they will make HDDVD titles in a few months time is it.

All in all MS did a great job of shafting its own userbase :)

re: What's up with HD DVD?

I LordPheonix I — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 09:59:24 GMT

HD DVD IS Dead

re: What's up with HD DVD?

BALLIE — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 09:57:17 GMT

Not what you wanted MS, or isit?

re: What's up with HD DVD?

SkinnerY2K — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 09:46:42 GMT

Blu-Ray and HD DVD will become less and less common any way, like music movies will move online as apposed to on physical object which can be lost/broken/damaged and more importantly, COSTS more to produce.

who cares what player's in what. long live the download

re: What's up with HD DVD?

This is annoying — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 09:30:46 GMT

www.bbc.co.uk/.../red_ring_of_death_returns.html

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Don Giusuppe — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 09:02:33 GMT

I'm wondering on how much the Blu-Ray add-on is gonna cost. Probably an Xbox 360 and a Blu-Ray add-on together will be slightly more expensive than a PS3.

re: What's up with HD DVD?

Dunyu Pismeoff — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 09:01:36 GMT

Look, I am very dissapointed.

HD/DVD had everything going for it. Cheaper production, interface was

fantastic. I am not really sure what on earth happened, but I think

it all comes down to data storage. You can store more data on a BluRay

disc than you can a HD/DVD. That is why they won.

Ms helped develop the code for HD/DVD, they have it! They can help

Bluray with their product. I will miss HD/DVD, got the player for

Christmas ( Xbox 360). I guess I will just have to go out and buy

all the Fire Sale HD/DVD's out there!

Rip.