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I don’t know why you’d buy one of these, but perhaps you’re opening up a museum.
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Add comment February 25th, 2008
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I don’t know why you’d buy one of these, but perhaps you’re opening up a museum.
What May Have Lead To HD DVD’s Death
According to Dealerscope, Sony paid Warner Home Video a purported $400 million to go Blu-ray in January. That isn’t to suggest that Toshiba wasn’t trying to payoff Warner, but simply lost in the end when Netflix and Best Buy sided with the Blu-ray camp.
Add comment February 22nd, 2008
HD DVD Is Six Feet Deep
After heavy Internet rumor mongering, Toshiba has finally conceded defeat and announced the official death of HD DVD. Toshiba plans to discontinue HD DVD manufacturing on all levels by the end of March 2008.
Official announcement here.
Add comment February 19th, 2008
Blu-Ray Wins HD DVD Battle and Rolls Out Make Up Line to Prove It…?
At a glance, the title of this article has complete credence given HD-DVD
’s recent demise. Heck, Netflix just signed on to do Blu-Ray only. But the reality of it, is that Cargo Cosmetics launched this line of make up specifically to mask the flaws that high def does so well at pointing out. According to CNET they ’skirted copyright’ by replacing the ‘-’ with a ‘_’. So it’s Blu_Ray, not Blu-Ray Mr. Lawyer pants! Is that legal?
Add comment February 11th, 2008
Paramount Drops Blu Ray For Cold Hard Cash
Paramount has dropped Blu Ray in favor of HD DVD. One, its cheaper to produce HD DVD
discs. Two its more “market ready� – whatever that means. And three, HD DVD offered (allegedly) $50 million and $100 million in marketing dollars.
Paramount Opts for HD DVD Format [MarketingVox]
8 comments August 22nd, 2007
HD DVD Boasts Largest Capacity Disc – Take that Blu-Ray
In the hopes of keeping rival Blu-ray
at bay, Toshiba, developer of HD-DVD, has announced its 51GB capacity HD DVD. Blu-Ray has long been regarded as the technically superior disc with a 50GB capacity. Previous HD DVD discs only held 15GB or 30GB of data. The extra capacity is accomplished through a 3rd layer. It remains to be scene if the “3rd layer� will increase cost and production time significantly.
51 GB HD DVD disc rivals Blu-ray capacity [TGDaily]
3 comments February 28th, 2007
HD-DVD and XBox HD Movie Comparison
Jake Ludington compares the Xbox
Marketplace’s HD movies to that of HD-DVD. His verdict? Both pictures are almost identical but the Xbox’s HD movies are slightly brighter.
Check out Jake’s full comparison here.
Mediablab: Xbox Video Marketplace and HD-DVD Comparison [EhomeUpgrade]
9 comments December 19th, 2006