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.)
Michael Sauers is currently the Director of Technology for Do Space in Omaha, NE. Michael has been training librarians in technology for the past twenty years and has also been a public library trustee, a bookstore manager for a library friends group, a reference librarian, serials cataloger, technology consultant, and bookseller since earning his MLS in 1995 from the University at Albany’s School of Information Science and Policy. Michael has also written dozens of articles for various journals and magazines and his fourteenth book, Emerging Technologies: A Primer for Librarians (w/ Jennifer Koerber) was published in May 2015 and more books are on the way. In his spare time he blogs at travelinlibrarian.info, runs The Collector’s Guide to Dean Koontz Web site, takes many, many photos, and typically reads more than 100 books a year.
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One Reply to “Toshiba Officially Drops HD DVD”
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.)
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.)