17 February 2008 0 Comments

The War is Over. HD-DVD officially (almost) dead

From Wired:

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.

[Read HD-DVD Death Made Official. Downloads To Kill Blu-Ray Next. | Gadget Lab from Wired.com]

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