Following several days of rumors, Toshiba has confirmed that it will no longer develop, manufacture and market HD DVD players and recorders, effectively ending the high-def format war.
Toshiba Officially Drops HD DVD | High-Def Digest
Yes folks, it’s finally officially over. Can we all shut up about it now. (Of course, this means I picked the wrong side no matter how justified. Let the fire sales on the discs commence.)
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Michael Sauers is the Director of Logan Library in Logan, UT. Prior to this he was one of the founding staff and Technology Manager for Do Space in Omaha, NE. After earning his MLS in 1995 from the University at Albany's School of Information Science and Policy Michael spent his first 20 years as a librarian training other librarians in technology along with time as a public library trustee, a bookstore manager for a library friends group, a reference librarian, a technology consultant, and a bookseller. He has written dozens of articles for various journals and magazines and has published 14 books ranging from library technology, blogging, Web design, and an index to a popular horror magazine. In his spare time, he blogs at TravelinLibrarian.info, runs The Collector's Guide to Dean Koontz website at CollectingKoontz.com, takes many, many photos, and typically reads more than 100 books a year.
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I was surprised that it ended so quickly. I know WB backing Blu-Ray was a big sign, but it looked like Microsoft was going to support HD-DVD just to spite Sony.
Oh well… technically speaking, they are better. It’s just like how the specs of the PS3 are better than the XBox360, though most people don’t care about what the processors can do. (I wouldn’t except the chip designer at home doesn’t shut up about it.)