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• Blu-ray wins the round, but not the fight

  Posted Feb 19 2008, 12:21 PM by Kim Peterson
  Filed under: Microsoft, Sony, Toshiba
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  The battle to become the high-definition replacement for the DVD is over today, with Toshiba's decision to pull out of the HD-DVD business. Toshiba will stop making HD-DVD players and aims to stop shipping them to retailers by the end of next month.

  No one else makes standalone HD-DVD players. Expect to see huge sales on HD-DVD players and movies over the next two months, but don't let anyone you know take the bait: this format is dead, dead, dead. 

  Still, Sony's Blu-ray camp shouldn't be celebrating just yet. Sure, Blu-ray won this battle for high-definition video, but it faces much bigger challenges in the race for consumer adoption. Its biggest competitor is and has always been the plain old DVD.   Read More...

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• Sony blinks in high-def battle

  Posted Nov 09 2007, 06:58 AM by Kim Peterson
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  Sony head Howard Stringer talked Blu-Ray this week during a visit to Manhattan, saying his format is in a "stalemate" with HD-DVD.  He played down the battle as no biggie.

  "It doesn't mean as much as all that," he said. He added that the Blu-Ray and HD-DVD teams once talked about uniting under one format, but that didn't happen.
  

  I think Sony just blinked. Stringer drops bombs like these just as we're heading into the holiday shopping season? Shoppers are going to be picking a side in the great Blu-Ray/HD-DVD fight, but does Sony even care?   Read More...

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