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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 !!!

1. Batteries that ignite
2. rootkit CDs
3. Blue-Ray Falling behind HD-DVD.
4. The delay of PS3
5. Add to that the Nintendo Wii, is handing them their hind quarters, after removing it from their sneaker, in their own back yard

BetaNews | PS3 Falls Further Behind in Japan
apanese gaming magazine company Enterbrain said that the PS3 had only managed to sell 45,321 units in May, far less than the Wii’s 251,794 units during the month of May, a five-to-one margin. In April, the Wii was outselling the PS3 by a four-to-one ratio.

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BackupBluray rip utility released » WesleyTech.com -> HD DVD, Blu-ray, CD info and more
The person (muslix64) behind the infamous BackupHDDVD utility and the subsequent appearance of HD DVD torrents is at it again, this time with his sights set on the Blu-ray Disc format.

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