http://roamer.com Tech, Business & Life Thu, 06 Aug 2009 16:19:13 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 http://roamer.com/2008/02/17/toshiba-to-cease-production-of-hd-dvd/ http://roamer.com/2008/02/17/toshiba-to-cease-production-of-hd-dvd/#comments Sun, 17 Feb 2008 13:41:09 +0000 theDoc http://roamer.com/2008/02/17/toshiba-to-cease-production-of-hd-dvd/ Reuters has picked up a story from Japanese broadcaster NHK that Toshiba is planning to stop production of HD-DVD compatible hardware, allowing the competing Blu-Ray format a clear run. The news follows a series of announcements over recent days that major online and high street retailers will no longer support the HD-DVD format, the . . . → Read More: Toshiba to cease production of HD-DVD]]> Reuters has picked up a story from Japanese broadcaster NHK that Toshiba is planning to stop production of HD-DVD compatible hardware, allowing the competing Blu-Ray format a clear run. The news follows a series of announcements over recent days that major online and high street retailers will no longer support the HD-DVD format, the most well-known of these being Wal-Mart in the US. Toshiba is expected to suffer losses amounting to hundreds of millions of dollars from its failure in the format war against Sony’s rival Blu-Ray format, which has often been compared to the Betamax-VHS battle of the 1980s in which Sony lost out. The Blu-Ray format will now be free to face up to its real competition; the continuing success of DVD and the growing popularity of downloads from the internet and on-demand TV.

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