Mana 3,867 #1 Posted February 19, 2008 Blu wins, red fails! Blu gets all the capture points ! Company Remains Focused on Championing Consumer Access to High Definition ContentTOKYO--Toshiba Corporation today announced that it has undertaken a thorough review of its overall strategy for HD DVD and has decided it will no longer develop, manufacture and market HD DVD players and recorders. This decision has been made following recent major changes in the market. Toshiba will continue, however, to provide full product support and after-sales service for all owners of Toshiba HD DVD products. HD DVD was developed to offer consumers access at an affordable price to high-quality, high definition content and prepare them for the digital convergence of tomorrow where the fusion of consumer electronics and IT will continue to progress. "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," said Atsutoshi Nishida, President and CEO of Toshiba Corporation. "While we are disappointed for the company and more importantly, for the consumer, the real mass market opportunity for high definition content remains untapped and Toshiba is both able and determined to use our talent, technology and intellectual property to make digital convergence a reality." Toshiba will continue to lead innovation, in a wide range of technologies that will drive mass market access to high definition content. These include high capacity NAND flash memory, small form factor hard disk drives, next generation CPUs, visual processing, and wireless and encryption technologies. The company expects to make forthcoming announcements around strategic progress in these convergence technologies. Toshiba will begin to reduce shipments of HD DVD players and recorders to retail channels, aiming for cessation of these businesses by the end of March 2008. Toshiba also plans to end volume production of HD DVD disk drives for such applications as PCs and games in the same timeframe, yet will continue to make efforts to meet customer requirements. The company will continue to assess the position of notebook PCs with integrated HD DVD drives within the overall PC business relative to future market demand. This decision will not impact on Toshiba's commitment to standard DVD, and the company will continue to market conventional DVD players and recorders. Toshiba intends to continue to contribute to the development of the DVD industry, as a member of the DVD Forum, an international organization with some 200 member companies, committed to the discussion and defining of optimum optical disc formats for the consumer and the related industries. Toshiba also intends to maintain collaborative relations with the companies who joined with Toshiba in working to build up the HD DVD market, including Universal Studios, Paramount Pictures, and DreamWorks Animation and major Japanese and European content providers on the entertainment side, as well as leaders in the IT industry, including Microsoft, Intel, and HP. Toshiba will study possible collaboration with these companies for future business opportunities, utilizing the many assets generated through the development of HD DVD. http://www.toshiba.co.jp/about/press/2008_02/pr1903.htm Poor Toshiba and the whole Red team, quite some money lost there. Must suck to have your own format fail after pouring in so much money into it. So now they can join team Blu and help bring the prices of the players and media down! Microsoft seems to be already thinking about joining the Blu team, more will follow! So what do you guys think? More storage space = Awesome?! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Dovi 3 #2 Posted February 19, 2008 Dumbass post the 2 other news about blu-ray, like warner-bros only letting movies to blu-ray and something else. Also Mana I hate people like you for this type of thing, you don't even fucking buy blu-rays but cause PS3 has it and Sony is using them you're just a fan boy over them. You have 6 blu-rays but all came free, you said yourself you won't be buying them cause they cost $34.99. The price for them is shit, and I'd have no problem sticking with regular DVD's just cause of that. Blu-Ray = Useless piece of shit that PS3 boosts itself with. Most PS3 owners don't buy blu-rays and watch them on it, its just a "I have it" thing. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Mana 3,867 #3 Posted February 19, 2008 Dumbass post the 2 other news about blu-ray, like warner-bros only letting movies to blu-ray and something else.Also Mana I hate people like you for this type of thing, you don't even fucking buy blu-rays but cause PS3 has it and Sony is using them you're just a fan boy over them. You have 6 blu-rays but all came free, you said yourself you won't be buying them cause they cost $34.99. The price for them is shit, and I'd have no problem sticking with regular DVD's just cause of that. Blu-Ray = Useless piece of shit that PS3 boosts itself with. Most PS3 owners don't buy blu-rays and watch them on it, its just a "I have it" thing. 4002[/snapback] I have never bought a DVD and will never buy a Blu ray movie, I still haven't an wont. I don't care about the movie prices either. Blu ray has more storage space than HD-DVD than DVD. That is the only thing I care about . HD Movies are free on the internets! And yes Toshiba bought out 2 Studios (Paramount and Universal) so that they would only do HD-DVD, that was a mistake. I currently have 2 500GB Hard Drives full of movies (HD Movies are 20+GB in size) I have 10 GB free space. Blu ray discs can get up to 100GB or even 200GB. Right now it's at 50GB but they have already done tests with 100GB and more. 5 of those 200GB discs and my space is free. Compared to 15-30 GB on HD-DVD. And I also love it when people think that Sony made Blu Ray... Haha It's not sony who made Blu Ray it's the Blu Ray Disc Founder: "The "Blu-ray Disc Founder" was founded in May 2002 by nine leading electronic companies: Sony, Matsushita, Pioneer, Philips, Thomson, LG Electronics, Hitachi, Sharp, and Samsung. Spearheaded by NP Infotech, on February 19th 2002 the companies announced [2] that they were the "Founders" of the Blu-ray Disc and later changed their name to the "Blu-ray Disc Association"" There is also the Blu Ray Disc Association which has such never heard of companies as: * Apple Inc. * Dell Inc. * Hewlett-Packard Company * Hitachi, Ltd. * LG Electronics * Mitsubishi Electric * Panasonic (Matsushita Electric) * Pioneer Corporation * Royal Philips Electronics * Samsung Electronics * Sharp Corporation * Sony Corporation * Sun Microsystems * TDK Corporation * Thomson SA * Twentieth Century Fox * Walt Disney Motion Pictures Group / Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment * Warner Home Video Inc. More info here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blu-ray_Disc_Association The only reason I like it that Blu Ray won is because now Toshiba, Microsotft and others from team Red will start making Blu Ray discs and players and records for the PC, which means the price will go down and I can get myself some Rewritable 100GB Discs for cheaps with cheap Recording Drive for my PC and burn whatever I have ever downloaded whit out ever needing to download it again. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
