Toshiba Gives Up On HD DVD, Sony’s Blu-ray Wins

Posted on February 19th, 2008 webmaster No comments          Print

It’s finally official, Sony’s Blu-ray wins the HD format war.

From MSNBC: Toshiba announced today that it will no longer make HD DVD players and recorders. Toshiba’s president, Atsutoshi Nishida, said that Warner Bros. Entertainment’s decision last month to release videos in Blu-ray format only had a tremendous impact and they simply had no chance to win.

An estimated 1 million HD DVD players have been sold worldwide and Toshiba promises that it will still continue to provide support for them.

Also see: Is Sony’s Blu-Ray winning?

Is Sony’s Blu-ray Winning?

Posted on February 16th, 2008 webmaster No comments          Print

It sure sounds like it. According to Reuters, Wal-Mart has decided to abandon Toshiba’s HD DVD format and will only sell Blu-ray players and movies starting in June of this year. Best Buy and Netflix earlier this week have decided to only support the Blu-ray format as well.

Here’s a list of some of the companies currently supporting Blu-ray:

1. Sony Corp (of course)
2. Target
3. Best Buy
4. Wal-Mart
5. Netflix
6. Blockbuster
7. News Corp’s 20th Century Fox
8. Walt Disney Co
9. Lion’s Gate Entertainment Corp
10. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
11. Warner Bros. Entertainment

Even Microsoft (maker of the XBox 360 console, which currently only works with HD DVD) said that it could consider supporting the Blu-ray technology if that’s what the consumers want.