When I last spoke about the high def optical format war, it was in reference to Best Buy deciding to go blu ray.
In that post, I said I was done speaking about the battle until the war was done. It was tempting to comment on Wal-Mart going blu ray, but that was apparently the nail in the coffin.
My swearing off hd posts lasted…. one story.
R.I.P. HD DVD: Toshiba reportedly ends the war | Crave : The gadget blog:
by Matthew ElliottWell, that’s it. Toshiba appears to be pulling the plug on HD DVD. Toshiba has not commented publicly, but a report on Japan’s NHK says Toshiba has made the decision to withdraw from next generation high-definition DVD production.
This news certainly doesn’t come as surprise to anyone remotely following HD DVD’s format war with rival Blu-ray. HD DVD had suffered a recent string of defections, with Warner, Netflix, Best Buy, and Wal-Mart all recently pledging their alliance to Blu-ray.
The NHK report says existing HD DVD products will remain in the market for a while, but Toshiba will stop further development of HD DVD.