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[/quote]Toshiba Corporation has decided to withdraw from next generation high-definition DVD production.
The company said it will continue to sell HD-DVD products for a while but will stop further development of HD DVD. Meanwhile, it said its DVD factories in Aomori Prefecture, northern Japan, would be closed.
Market observers said that Toshiba could suffer a loss of hundreds of millions of US dollars.
I'm personally quite pleased with the price of Blu-Ray writers at the moment. For about £180, I can get a 6x Blu-Ray writer that also reads HD-DVDs, which is less than the cost of my first CD-RW and DVD-RW drives.|darc| wrote:As much as I hate Sony and have previously denied that I would buy Blu-ray products, I'm really glad this format war is finally over. Hopefully we'll start to see affordable Blu-ray writers and writable media... that's what I'm most interested in.
Nico0020 wrote:Yea I read this at xbox-scene the other day. Hate to see HD DVD go, but oh well. I can build myself a really cheap HD movie collection whenever stores start to clearance this stuff. I preferred HD DVD over BluRay, but I am glad to see the format war over. All I had though was the 360 Player and got a lot of free movies with that. And apparently M$ is going to have a Bluray360 player in the works as early as May.
I dunno. At this point I'm definitely going to be using DVDRs for quite a while, but I don't think I'll bother to buy anything until Blu-ray comes down in price. I don't want to have to rebuy anything.Jeeba Jabba wrote:I'll be rocking DVD for at least another 5 years.
Bluray has more space, but nearly every feature is optional, meaning there's no guarantee that a given disc will play on your player. If you're lucky, all you need is a firmware update. Unfortunately, since most Bluray players lack an Ethernet port (it's in the spec, but it's optional) you have to download the firmware on your computer and burn a disc.gamedudex2 wrote:im glad to see the better format one for once. now hopes for some higher quality 1080p transfers down the line since bluray has a higher bit rate and more space.
Oh crap. I foresee dozens of thousands of Blu-Ray players getting frustrated after buying shitty players. And my mom will almost certainly be one of themRoofus wrote:Bluray has more space, but nearly every feature is optional, meaning there's no guarantee that a given disc will play on your player. If you're lucky, all you need is a firmware update. Unfortunately, since most Bluray players lack an Ethernet port (it's in the spec, but it's optional) you have to download the firmware on your computer and burn a disc.
For HDDVD, the entire spec was required, meaning that every player could play every disc. And they all had Ethernet, so no disc burning.
One could argue that having an all-optional spec is better because it opens the door for future expandability, but those people are wrong.
.AFAIK, that's not how it works. The only optional parts I've heard of are all Java-related stuff, and discs for the highest profile (which seems to be just a thinly-veiled way of saying "for the PS3, and maybe PCs someday") are already out, even though player support isn't (PS3 hasn't gotten the FW update yet) and play fine in existing players.Roofus wrote:Bluray has more space, but nearly every feature is optional, meaning there's no guarantee that a given disc will play on your player.
