Toshiba Gives Up on Format Wars
Submitted by Alafista on Saturday, 16 February 20082 Comments
Toshiba has officially announced that it will be pulling out of the format wars and will be ceasing all manufacturing of HD-DVD equipment.
Toshiba made its announcement after Wal-Mart announced it would no longer carry HD-DVD stuff. That means SONY’s Blu-Ray emerges as the victor in this format war between the 2 Japanese electronics giant.
But then I really like what wired.com has to say about this:
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.
Source: Wired.com
That’d be funny if we’re still all using DVDs 10 years down the line from now.
hahaha, betamax all over again, sony when will you ever learn? i cannot see this bluray crap holding up…… love the picture lol gave me a chuckle