Toshiba Discontinues HD DVD Format, Hands Sony Victory

Toshiba Discontinues HD DVD Format, Hands Sony Victory

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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 major format war in next-generation video.

"We concluded that a swift decision would be best," Toshiba President Atsutoshi Nishida told reporters at his company's Tokyo office.

The move would make Blu-ray -- backed by Sony Corp., Matsu#a 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.

Nishida said a decision by Warner Bros. Entertainment to release movie discs only in the Blu-ray format made the move inevitable, although his company had confidence in HD DVD as a technology.

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I always liked blu-ray better. With everyone switching over to that it is no surprise that this would happen but it is surprising it happened this soon.

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This was meant for BTS, mods feal free to move.