While rumors of Warner potentially dumping HD DVD have been circulating for the past few months, the timing of the announcement right before the start of the Consumer Electronics Show seems designed to inflict maximum damage to Toshiba’s planned HD DVD push at the show. With lower prices on its standalone players and the Paramount deal, Toshiba and HD DVD backers like Microsoft appeared to be gaining some momentum in the format war. But now the company is faced with a PR nightmare. (An HD DVD event is scheduled for Sunday in Las Vegas; it should be interesting). No one knows at this point what it took for Warner to say sayonara to HD DVD, but you can bet it involved a truckload of something.
[Via Crave Blog]
Well, Is it true that HD is going down the tubes. After HD DVD selling there players for less than a 100$ they were gaining so much momentum from people buying there HD players. Now Blu-Ray did this and now does it look like Blu-ray is the winner, I do not know. Here’s what I know:
- C-Net Editors Rated the Toshiba HD-A2 Rated it 7 out of 10.
- Toshiba sold the players for 99$ at Walmart during the Holiday Season.
- Harry Potter and Order Of the Phoenix is on HD DVD.
- Die Hard 4 is Blu-ray, I wish it was an HD DVD.
- HD DVD’s are cheaper to make and hold up to 15 GB of data.
- HD Dvd Players will play standard DVD.
why does this war seem to be lasting way longer than the beta/vhs war of the 80’s?
Because people don’t want to admit it’s all the same. Blu-ray and HD DVD have about the same media capabilities but people are just not wanting to buy something so expensive. It’s easier just to buy a computer than buy a Blu-Ray DVD player!!