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Getbig Misc Discussion Boards => E-Board - Movies, Music, TV, Videogames, Comics => Topic started by: Havenbull on February 16, 2008, 04:55:32 PM
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Toshiba will soon announce that they are dropping the format
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Toshiba Halts HD DVD Production, Mulls Future
Toshiba has halted production of HD DVD players and recorders and is close to making a decision on whether to throw in the towel on the high-definition movie disc format, Japanese public broadcaster NHK reported Saturday evening.
The decision, which NHK said will likely cost the company several tens of billions of dollars, is being made in the face of flagging support by movie studios and major U.S. retailers.
"We are making considerations following the impact on sales of Warner's announcement but we haven't made any decision," said Keisuke Ohmori, a spokesman for Toshiba, when reached on Saturday evening. He was referring to the January decision by Warner Bros to stop issuing movies on HD DVD and go solely with Blu-ray Disc.
Other local media reports on Saturday said an official announcement from Toshiba is likely in the coming week.
HD DVD has been battling Blu-ray Disc for just under two years to become the defacto replacement for DVD for high-definition video. HD DVD is backed by Toshiba and a handful of other companies including Microsoft and Intel but Blu-ray Disc counted a larger number of consumer electronics heavy hitters. The main backer of the format is Sony and other supporters include Panasonic, Sharp, Samsung, LG and Philips.
Both formats delivered a similar audio and video quality and the main difference comes down to the movies available on each format. Most movie studios have taken one side or the other so consumers are left with a difficult decision. As a result many have walked away from stores with neither an HD DVD or Blu-ray Disc player and the market has performed poorly.
The Warner Bros decision in January has been seen by many as the beginning of the end for HD DVD. With Warner pulling out HD DVD only two of the major Hollywood studios, Paramount and Universal, are left backing the format.
In the weeks since the Warner announcement things have gotten worse for HD DVD. In the last week Netflix, an Internet-based movie rental company in the U.S., said it would cease supporting HD DVD and then on Friday Wal-Mart, the largest retailer in the U.S., said it would stop selling HD DVD in favor of Blu-ray Disc.
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Toshiba to exit HD DVD, end format war-NHK
OKYO (Reuters) - Toshiba Corp is planning to stop production of equipment compatible with the HD DVD format for high-definition video, allowing the competing Blu-Ray camp a free run, public broadcaster NHK reported on Saturday.
Toshiba is expected to suffer losses amounting to tens of billions of yen (hundreds of millions of dollars) to scrap production of HD DVD players and recorders and other steps to exit the business, Japan's NHK said on its website.
No one at Toshiba could be reached for comment.
The format war between the Toshiba-backed HD DVD and Sony Corp's Blu-Ray, often compared to the Betamax-VHS battle in the 1980s, has slowed the development of what is expected to be a multibillion dollar high-definition DVD industry.
Toshiba was dealt a blow on Friday when Wal-Mart Stores Inc said it would abandon the HD DVD format, becoming the latest in a series of top retailers and movie studios to rally behind Blu-ray technology for high definition DVDs.
Toshiba plans to continue selling HD DVD equipment at stores for the time being but will not put resources into developing new devices, NHK said.
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who cares.
still i wait for toshiba to confirm it
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HD-DVDs are now going for $14.99 at Circuit City. :D
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thats a good deal. theres enough hd titles around for it to be worth getting a hd player
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Blu-Rays are a bit pricey. They need to jump on the $14.99 bandwagon too.
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especially when they havent made an effort into making the new release, a lot of times no extra material compared to the dvd copy etc
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especially when they havent made an effort into making the new release, a lot of times no extra material compared to the dvd copy etc
Well, that portion of a Blu-Ray not having as much extra material as a regular DVD has to do with the picture "quality" being compressed a lot more on the disk which allows the crisp 1080p picture.
Remember Superbit DVDs? Same thing happened to those - picture was compressed more on the disk space to allow a crisper picture, but the extra material were done away with due to the limited space on the disk.
Superbit DVDs were the ancestors of Blue-Ray. ;)
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who cares.
still i wait for toshiba to confirm it
AHHAHAHAAHAHAH!!!!!!!!!!! coming from a guy who owns an HD-DVD player
hahahahahahahahahah!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Well, that portion of a Blu-Ray not having as much extra material as a regular DVD has to do with the picture "quality" being compressed a lot more on the disk which allows the crisp 1080p picture.
Remember Superbit DVDs? Same thing happened to those - picture was compressed more on the disk space to allow a crisper picture, but the extra material were done away with due to the limited space on the disk.
Superbit DVDs were the ancestors of Blue-Ray. ;)
there's plenty of room on the blu ray discs
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AHHAHAHAAHAHAH!!!!!!!!!!! coming from a guy who owns an HD-DVD player
hahahahahahahahahah!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I think he's feeling the regret. :D
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there's plenty of room on the blu ray discs
Exactly! 50 times more than HD-DVDs 25. ;)
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AHHAHAHAAHAHAH!!!!!!!!!!! coming from a guy who owns an HD-DVD player
hahahahahahahahahah!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
i have both. thats why i dont care.
the hd paid itself long time ago.
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i have both. thats why i dont care.
the hd paid itself long time ago.
Epic lack of taking a risk
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Epic lack of taking a risk
\hahahahaahahahha
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:D
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You have to bear with him. He's a lil' "special".
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i laughed at your post
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i laughed at your post
I just can't believe you bought a HD-DVD player.
Sony and Panasonic vowed... I repeat "vowed" not to lose this format war.
Just a few minutes of research showed how far superior the BD technology was over HDDVD.
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I just can't believe you bought a HD-DVD player.
Sony and Panasonic vowed... I repeat "vowed" not to lose this format war.
Just a few minutes of research showed how far superior the BD technology was over HDDVD.
Got it cheap. Bundled with HD-DVD's that if bought separately would've cost more than the actual player.
There's several hundred titles released on HD-DVD, a lot of them identical to the BR release but much cheaper.
There's also a number of movies that was released to HD-DVD only and it might take time before they are released on BR (if ever).
In short - this is a perfect time to get a HD-DVD!
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Time to get a PS3 I guess.
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Time to get a PS3 I guess.
"I hate dudes, I love WOMEN!"
who are you trying to convince dude
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"I hate dudes, I love WOMEN!"
who are you trying to convince dude
You've not seen Clerks?
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You've not seen Clerks?
NAH
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who cares.
still i wait for toshiba to confirm it
Is there something "bluto"?
R.I.P. HD DVD
Toshiba today (Tuesday) formally announced the death of HD DVD, thereby ending its two-year-long battle with Sony over next-generation high-definition home video players. "We carefully assessed the long-term impact of continuing the so-called next generation format war and concluded that a swift decision will best help the market develop," Toshiba chief Atsutoshi Nishida told a Tokyo news conference. "It was a tough decision," he added. The company said that it plans to shut down its HD DVD research and manufacturing operations by the end of March. The decision leaves Sony's Blu-ray system as the sole high-definition consumer technology and may end a wait-and-see attitude that has stalled adoption of such systems in U.S. homes. "With a single format, consumers may be more willing to buy high-definition DVD players, helping the market grow," Akio Mizutani, a Tokyo-based researcher at Mizuho Corporate Bank Ltd., told Bloomberg News. But several other analysts pointed out that stand-alone Blu-ray players cost around $400 (versus about $150 for HD DVD players) and that, with either system, a significant improvement in picture quality can be noticed by the average consumer only on the largest home-theater systems.
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HAHAHAHAHAHA bluto owns an HD-DVD HAHAHAHAHAHa
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