Toshiba said Tuesday it will no longer develop, make or market HD DVD players and recorders, handing a victory to rival Blu-ray disc technology in the format battle for next-generation video.
"We concluded that a swift decision would be best," Toshiba President Atsutoshi Nishida told reporters at his company's Tokyo offices.
The move would make Blu-ray — backed by Sony Corp., Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., which makes Panasonic brand products, and five major Hollywood movie studios — the winner in the battle over high-definition DVD formatting that began several years ago.
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What do you all think about this? I figured HD-DVD would win out after the failure Sony experienced with previous video formats (i.e. Beta-Max and UMD). Does anyone have an HD-DVD currently and will this seriously effect how you will by next-gen movies in the future?