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Toshiba drop HD-DVD - official.
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At least they had the business sense not to drag it out.
A sad loss - but hopefully we will have have one standard that can develop properly now (and end up at resonable prices)
If only they had agreed on a standard years ago, all the companies involved would have been better off.
A sad loss - but hopefully we will have have one standard that can develop properly now (and end up at resonable prices)
If only they had agreed on a standard years ago, all the companies involved would have been better off.
Agreed,.. they have the business sense not to be involved with HD optical disc, and to spend development resources on ssd and convergent tech.
It will be very interesting to see how the 1.1 and 2.0 players are now sold, and at what price points they will be introduced.
Royalties is THE reason for the existance of BD, Spony et all are now rubbing their hands at the prospect of extracting as much cash as they possibly can from selling us the same films again, and a few players aswell.
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I created this as a new thread since the other one had been diverted into a "HTPC vs Standalone player" debate.
Was going to point that out. The apparent reason for this is because the longer this "battle" dragged out the more money Toshiba would apparently loose.
I wonder what effect this will have with Microsoft and there XBOX 360.
Personally I am glad it is over and we can now have 1 format.
Oh and remember SONY do not fully own/create this Blue-Ray technology, it is a group of other companies. I believe SONY just have the largest share or something.
This is something I am referring to a long time ago so I may be totally wrong!
But they did drag it out. This could/should have been resolved last year. Think of all the confusion and money wasted in the meantime.
Let me put it another way, if Tosh has sold say 750,000 players with their "better than BD" conversion rate on HD disks, how many disks are sat with users who in 2-3 years won't be able to play them as their hardware has failed and there's no replacement available?
Yes, some competition was good at the start, as it helped to get rid of MPEG2 from BD, but post that, it was purely counterproductive.
Logically they'd release a 'Blu-Ray' drive add-on like their HD-DVD one!.. but we are talking Microsoft here!, so our (normal peoples) logic goes out the window!!!
I dont think this will effect the 360 at all. I got the 360 for games, i got the PS3 for DVD's and Blu-Rays. Most people would and should think along the same lines. The PS3 is getting some good releases, but the 360 will still be best for games for me imo. Again just my opinion, so please dont get worked up about it
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Has there been any news from Universal and Paramount yet?
Will be interesting what they do if they have any contracts outstanding.
Will be interesting what they do if they have any contracts outstanding.
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*Also looks slightly smug for waiting till it happened before taking the plunge*
Unlike my foray into Video2000 'cos it was better than VHS and Betamax oops
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Universal have made an announcement http://www.blu-ray.com/news/?id=1007, and apparently paramount are going to do the same in the next few days, I guess all deals are of after the Toshiba announcement.
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Why do people think HD-DVD is a Microsoft technology?
The reason for the share price increase was not HD optical. Toshiba have just announced spending 14 billion dollars on two new flash NAND factories in co operation with sandisc. They alluded to this future format in the HD DVD announcement.
I understand that Paramount had a clause stating that if Warner jumped from HD-DVD, that they could break the contract and also go BD, with no penalty. Bearing in mind that Paramount were given a reputed $100million, seems like a good move by them.