Source: ANN
Wal-Mart, the largest retail chain in the world, has announced that it “will offer only Blu-ray [Disc] movies and hardware machines, as well as standard definition movies and DVD players, and up converts.” It will begin phasing out HD DVD, Blu-ray’s high-definition disc format competitor, in less than 30 days and finish by June.
Refer to Podcast #1 for details here (link is not up yet)
Source: Phyxion.net
Earlier, Japanese broadcaster NHK broke the news that Toshiba decided to cancel the development of further HD DVD technologies, but to manufacture current HD DVD players for some time. A production plant in northern Japan is already confirmed to be shut down
HD-DVD defeated ? Is this the end?
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February 18th, 2008 at 8:12 am #Vertago
end? End of the stupid war yes…beginning of the bluuuuu
February 18th, 2008 at 10:34 am #oOgA
whoever wins.. it is best to have a standardized format. i hope they wont jerk up bluray or its hardware prices
February 18th, 2008 at 8:38 pm #Akiraman
Hopefully the BR-D movies prices will go down as I want to watch some anime movies like paprika BD on my PS3. But more importantly I want sony to bring Down the prices of those BD-RW drives on the PC, imagine burning a few anime series (not episodes) on a single disc