Toshiba have officially confirmed the leaked reports that it was ending production of HD-DVD and ending the format war. What's interesting is the title of the press release, it's worded as such that they are still committed to Hi Def in general which is of course, a good thing. By the end of March however, HD-DVD will no longer exist in the retail market, both in movie players and PC hardware.

http://www.toshiba.co.jp/about/press/2008_02/pr1903.htm

well seem can go for blu-rays now.....

one of the big guys in the HD-war finally bow out

should have seen it coming

they have their chance and blew it

maybe they were playing the safe card,
the film producer waits the market for the hardware supports
while the hardwares waits for the film supports

well just have to move on
maybe toshiba have something up their sleeves perhaps?

maybe coz of sony's aggressive advertisement/sales of PS3 consoles

well time to grab PS3 instead of BD players for RM2999

waaa...so the expensive BD win this war...

Maybe once it reaches mainstream the price should decrease.Currently blu ray movie disc selling in malaysia are rm154++.Not too bad I would say.

sony rules the market better perhaps.....

maybe both formats are dying? ps3 sales weren't that great after all...

yeah, maybe that's only for the past.
the ps3 sales definitely will up after this announcement.

yea... when DVD first came out it was a around tat price range. Right now is less than half d price. Only those imported DVD still sell at those prices.

HD-DVD or BD... as long as its affordable, i dun mind whicheva format win.

ya , who wanna spend RM2999 for an BD player~~~ instead of RM1400 for a PS3 40GB with BD player inside which also can play games , etc etc etc

oh boy , those who bought the xbox 360 hd drive are going to be mad .lol

^ no they wont. they'll go insane and/or depressed.

well ur putting more fire to the hd camp hahahaha.....

no more competition in HD
isnt this a bad news for us?

HD-DVD movies should be really cheap now along with the players
short term enjoyment

the war ended between blu rays and hds were end finally.

is this true?how abt xbox 360?

maybe microsoft would come up with Blu-Ray drive for XBOX

This post has been edited by cyew86: Feb 19 2008, 09:39 PM

Xbox360 HD -DVD drive is DOOMED but the games and console still ROCKS

Huh? It's good for us consumers. Now all the studios will produce only on Blu-ray and this will certainly lower their production cost and ultimately, the discs themselves. Also, more hardware manufacturers will not have a headache of which way they should go, and now that they are certain, they can ramp up production knowing that consumers that want HD will go for Blu-ray no matter what.

This solve a hell lot of headache than create them...and the headache would only be: will I want a 40GB PS3 or a 80GB PS3? Or wait for future SKUs? Sony wins this time...their strategy finally pays off. Ken Kutaragi should be really proud.


In due time...in due time... http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=10749



Also, note that since PS3 helped them win this war, Sony is going to have a jolly good time selling PS3 since it is the cheapest Blu-ray player. So...thing's going good for Sony this year?

This post has been edited by clayclws: Feb 19 2008, 10:57 PM

So betamax nightmare stops echoing ? lulz

It's the cheapest right now because it's mad subsidized. Once things reach a steady state, standalone players will be cheaper.

this is just like when PS2 was first launched, people get it coz it was the cheapest DVD player available during that time

now Blu-Ray

Michael Bay also became mad about this matter..

I hope this HD-Bluray issue will not effects him on making superb great movie

sony will be first ...ps 4 with blue ray

Huh! for sure blue ray price will be like

it's good that the format war ended up much earlier
there's never been good to consumers to have format war
btw this time, Sony 2 : 0 DVD consortium

they sort of lose up when Sony founded the DVD RW association, that DVD+R format has deemed better than the original DVD-R

Transformers II

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Added on February 21, 2008, 2:48 pmDude, PS3 already using Blu Ray la

This post has been edited by karhoe: Feb 21 2008, 02:48 PM

Now we wait for region-free Blu-Ray players.

This post has been edited by RAMChYLD: Feb 21 2008, 02:58 PM

den sony wil monopolize yet again,...

Sony does not own Bluray...
http://www.blu-ray.com/info/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blu-ray_Disc

I read somewhere in the news yesterday that Sony sold Blu-Ray factories to Toshiba.

Also that the DVD format wars caused both parties a lot of funds.

Anyway, hopefully BluRay will be standardized soon enough. Frankly, I don't even mind the quality of the old DVD9, as I still watch them on my old 39 inch CRT TV and my 19inch LCD monitor which will be 22-24inch LCD monitor 2009 or 2010.

Cheers

Well, so will this be the end of Xbox 360 as well?

My opinion, Sony killed three birds with one stone
1) format war (BluRay vs HD DVD)
2) console war (PS3 vs Xbox 360)
3) revenge (they lost previously, Betamax vs VHS)

region free ps 3 cukup ;P

micrsoft= baynak duit , so the 360 will prolly live on for a while , else , its gonna be another dreamcast ... lol

The 360 is already been long in production to be killed off that easily. Gaming studios has committed to making games for it, thus it won't die, not in a long shot. Heck, I'd see it still outsells the PS3 for a while as the HD-DVD is not a standard for it, just as an Add On.ah well, sad to see bluegay won, and I doubt we will use it for the PC in the next 4 years unless softwares starts to sell in that format, which I doubt as not many uses that much space anyways, and ppl are nao being comfortable with just downloading the software you want and just buy the serial key online

Dun worry... Xbox360 will never die, it die just bcoz of 3rod.

xbox360 will live on.....but ps3 might just might flourish more ahead of this news.....

And in another news, Sony gives Toshiba something in return for its trouble: http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=10826

No wonder Sony didn't comment on HD-DVD's defeat...

good news for customer since they no need struggle to choose what is the best...

ah, don't jump to conclusions too fast, eventhough hd-dvd is out, customers still have to do their homework before getting a bluray player, there are soooo many different brands out there.

And Microsoft's HD-DVD add on gets the axe: http://www.dailytech.com/Microsoft+Xbox+36...rticle10829.htm

Actually i think SONY make a big sacrifice to win this war also... and i think is mainly from PS3... They even sell PS3 under production cost... read the link below
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PS3
read under "Sales and Production" then u guys will know how big SONY Sacrifice for this...