Toshiba Responds to Warner Brothers Blu Ray Move
Toshiba have issued a press release in response to Warner Brother’s blu-ray moves. I guess what else could they say, but they need to accept two things, they lost, and the more they try to convince people they were actually winning when the numbers clearly showed the opposite the more ridiculous the look.
Here’s the press release:
TOKYO, Jan. 4 /PRNewswire/ — Toshiba is quite surprised by Warner Bros.’ decision to abandon HD DVD in favor of Blu-ray, despite the fact that there are various contracts in place between our companies concerning the support of HD DVD. As central members of the DVD Forum, we have long maintained a close partnership with Warner Bros. We worked closely together to help standardize the first-generation DVD format as well as to define and shape HD DVD as its next-generation successor. We were particularly disappointed that this decision was made in spite of the significant momentum HD DVD has gained in the US market as well as other regions in 2007. HD DVD players and PCs have outsold Blu-ray in the US market in 2007. We will assess the potential impact of this announcement with the other HD DVD partner companies and evaluate potential next steps. We remain firm in our belief that HD DVD is the format best suited to the wants and needs of the consumer.
There are two things wrong with that statement.
“HD DVD players and PCs have outsold Blu-ray in the US market in 2007.” – Only because Toshiba decided not to include the number one selling blu-ray player, the PS3 in those statistics. Disk sales showed blu-ray consistently outselling hd-dvd by as much as 3-1.
and even funnier….
“Toshiba is quite surprised by Warner Bros.’ decision to abandon HD DVD in favor of Blu-ray,”
It was rumored on every technology, dvd and many mainstream news sites for the last month. Surprised? Really?
What will be really funny is if Microsoft decides now, that it is finally going to put a hd-dvd drive into the xbox as a built in drive, just as it’s too late to do any good.
By the way, in case anyone is wondering why this move means so much, Blu-Ray now has exclusivity of 70% of the entertainment industry content producers. HD-DVD can not survive on the remaining releases from Paramount, Dreamworks animation, and Universal, all of whom must be seriously considering their options right now. Paramount looks particularly stupid arly stupid right now.
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