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February 19, 2008

11:33 am | 0 recommendations | 2 comments

HD-DVD Dead and Buried

| posted by Kevin Ohannessian

The format war is officially dead. Toshiba, the head company in the HD-DVD camp, announced today it will stop manufacturing HD-DVD players. The film studios that supported the dead format will most likely jump to the victor, Blu-ray.

It took two years, but a format war that never should've happened is finally over. Now consumers can reap the benefits of a single standard -- cheaper players, cheaper films, and a larger selection of titles. Let the healing begin.

Tags: Innovation, Technology, Blu-ray, Format War, HD-DVD
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February 19, 2008 at 4:11pm

Paul Michelman
Sony may have won the DVD battle but they certainly haven't yet won the video war. It remains to be seen how many consumers will choose Blu-ray over the many forms of direct downloads coming online, and for how long. As bandwidth and memory grow cheaper and cheaper, the DVD format could well disappear altogether. The question is whether Sony will ever recoup the investment they've made in Blu-ray and in beating out Toshiba and whether it was worth their seemingly single-minded innovation approach to do so. My 10 terabyte hard drive is going to store an awful lot of HD content one day in the near future...
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February 21, 2008 at 3:11pm

David Grossman
Direct downloads don't come anywhere near the quality of Blu-Ray. It will be some time before we get anywhere near the bandwidth to download 50 gig worth of video quickly and cheaply. Mark Cuban (of all people to be for digital downloads) doesn't think it will happen in his lifetime.
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