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It is finally safe to spend that 6 or 7 HUNDRED dollars for that HD player, and not worry that you will get stuck with a highly sophisticated door stop.

Toshiba pulls plug on HD DVD format
Toshiba has told the market that it will no longer develop, manufacture and market HD DVD players and recorders.

This effectively ends the high definition DVD format war and leaves the market clear for Sony’s Blu-ray high definition DVD format which has steadily been gaining ground ahead of HD DVD in the market.

About 2 decades after Sony lost the VHS vs Betamax war, they win with Blu-ray Disc. The company I suppose was do for a break, because the 21st century really hasn’t been that kind to Japan’s premiere electronics company. Soring competition, loss of market share, and some REALLY bad management decisions, has hurt the company, not to mention the fact that Sony products have not been as good as they once where.

Well kudos to you Sony. You have about 10 maybe 15 years to be on top. By then entertainment media distributed as atoms in stores will probably be a thing of the past. It does have promise as a storage medium. Until then we will all have to pay “tribute” to Sony, for every blu-ray product we buy. All hail Sony !!!

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