HD-DVD loses the format wars

Written on Tuesday, February 19th, 2008 at 9:45 pm by FrequencyCast
Filed under Announcement.

It’s official. The HD formats wars are over… and the winner is [drumroll] Blu-Ray. In February, Toshiba finally announced that HD-DVD is dead. From their press release: “This was a very difficult decision to make … but when we thought about the trouble we would cause to consumers and our partners, we decided it was not right for us to keep going with such a small presence.”

If you’ve got an HD-DVD player, it’ll still be supported for a while, but you’ve now got yourself the HD equivalent of Betamax. Blu-Ray players cost from £250.

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