Toshiba corp. today announced that after nearly two years, they will be abandoning their HD DVD movie format, thus making Sony's Blu Ray format the winner in the high definition competition.
The competition was pretty close with big companies like Disney (Buena Vista, Touchstone), Sony Pictures (Columbia, Lionsgate) exclusively supporting Blu Ray while Universal, DreamWorks and Viacom (Paramount) exclusively backed HD DVD.
But everything started going downhill for HD DVD last month, starting with Time Warner (Warner Bros, Turner)'s decision to exclusively back Blu Ray. Soon after, other major companies and retail chains such as New Line, HBO, Walmart, Best Buy, Netflix, EMI, ADV and National Geographic went Blu Ray exclusive.
For more details, see Toshiba's press release as well as PC World's Blu Ray VS HD DVD timeline.
Sources:
Toshiba.co.jp (news)
PC World (additional info)
1UP.com Message Boards (image)
Tuesday, February 19, 2008
R.I.P.: HD DVD is Officially Dead, Blu Ray Wins the Format War
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