Thursday, February 21, 2008

Blu Ray Wins

The battle between Hd and Blu Ray is finally over! Toshiba has effectively "thrown in the towel" and ceased production,development, marketing & manufacture of all HD DVD players. This halt will be effective by the end of March. So for all you HD fanatics...Better rush to Best Buy now!!

At a press conference Tuesday, Toshiba pledged of offer full product support and after-sales service for owners of Toshiba HD DVD products.

After the press conference major retailers including Wal-Mart, and Best Buy announced that they would begin phasing out the sale of HD DVD products. Toshiba said its decison was based on recent changes in the market and after careful analysis of the long-term impact of continuing the format war (ie: Blu-Ray)

All six major Hollywood studios are now supporting the more popular Blu-Ray format including Sony Pictures , 20th Century Fox (also MGM), Walt Disney Studios, Warner Home Video, LionsGate, Paramount Home Entertainment, and Universal Studios and abandoning production of the HD DVD format.

So what is Blu-Ray?.....Blu-ray is the name of a next-generation optical disc format jointly developed by the Blu-ray Disc Association (BDA), a group of the world's leading consumer electronics, personal computer and media manufacturers (consisting of Apple, Dell, Hitachi, HP, JVC, LG, Mitsubishi, Panasonic, Pioneer, Philips, Samsung, Sharp, Sony, TDK and Thomson).

Hd DVD in comparison was developed by Toshiba in conjuction with a group of similar companies.

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