The Death of HD DVD
So it’s finally happened, the format wars are over and some camp has lost several billion dollars. The loser is HD DVD. They already were heading towards defeat when several studios switch to the other camp, but the largest and probably the fatal blow came when Walmart announced that they would be phasing out HD DVDs on their shelves to be completely replaced by Blu-Ray disks.
Toshiba, the backer of HD DVD, has announced it is discontinuing production of their HD DVD players. Microsoft and Toshiba just recently released a joint statement announcing that they are ceasing the production of HD… Continue reading