there you go sunrise, hd-dvd is dead. good luck with your player.
it's not dead yet.. although the rumour is they'll make the announcement this week.
so that makes this thread over.. wait not before a whole lot of "HAHAHA SUNRISE HD DVD IS OWNED"
i'm not the only loser, everyone is. the consumer format has lost. just most people are too stupid to realise. it's the only reason why bluray has won/will win. ofcourse the big companies are gonna back who pays them more, and the product which gives them more rights rather than the consumer.
and I don't actually have a HD DVD player.. was going to get one, maybe now ill pick one up in the firesale never will go bluray though.
in closing, say NO to bluray
ps ive been waiting all weekend for someone to post that :P
haha, yeah just thought i'd rub it in, i'm thankful my ps3 is a bluray player, obviously this goes for everyone that owns one. Good times ahead, I can finally get some of my fave flicks in bluray in time.
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Feb-18-2008 04:13
sunrise3500
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Location: Under the sea
quote:
Originally posted by christos
haha, yeah just thought i'd rub it in, i'm thankful my ps3 is a bluray player, obviously this goes for everyone that owns one. Good times ahead, I can finally get some of my fave flicks in bluray in time.
A brief article published in Hollywood Reporter cited an anonymous source claiming that Toshiba was making plans to exit the HD DVD business... Reuters spread the story around the world due to its syndication agreement with the Hollywood paper.
The initial report was authored by Thomas K. Arnold from HomeMediaMagazine.com, an unabashedly pro-Blu-ray outlet that has published editorials from Arnold entitled, "A Plea for a Unified Blu Future" and "HD DVD Backers Should Call It a Day."
(Toshiba) The company then issued a statement over the weekend saying it "has not made any announcement or decision" to abandon HD DVD.
A Toshiba spokesperson did acknowledge, however, that "We are currently assessing our business strategies, but nothing has been decided at the moment." Toshiba says it has been evaluating the situation ever since Warner Bros. announced on the eve of CES 2008 that it would stop producing movies in the HD DVD format by June. Still, nothing has been decided thus far, the company asserts.
TOKYO--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.
Let's just rest it at that it was the better format overall... i guess only intellectuals bought HD-DVD... which ultimately failed against Sonys great marketing towards stupid people...
To be fairly honest though, HD-DVD was technically superior aswell which is only going to be matched with Blu Ray profile 2.0... so Blu ray should have failed...
*cough*
Feb-20-2008 06:18
sunrise3500
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Registered: Mar 2004
Location: Under the sea
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Originally posted by Lemonad
Blu Ray profile 2.0...
rendering all current bluray players (bar the ps3) useless.
TOKYO - Sony Corp said on Wednesday it will sell its microchip production facilities in western Japan to Toshiba Corp for 90 billion yen ($835 million), in their latest move to focus on their core businesses.
The equipment will be used by their semiconductor joint venture that will make high-performance Cell chips and RSX graphic chips, both used in Sony's PlayStation 3 game console, as well as other microchips that go into Toshiba products.
The venture will be established on April 1.
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Sony, which is focusing on image sensor chips for digital cameras and pulling away from heavy investments for cutting-edge chip production equipment, said in October it would sell production facilities for making key microchips used in the PS3 to Toshiba, but the price has been unavailable.
The announcement on the selling price comes on the heels of Toshiba's decision on Tuesday to abandon its HD DVD high-definition DVD format, ending a prolonged battle with the Sony-led Blu-ray camp.
Toshiba twinned the HD DVD exit with an announcement that it and partner SanDisk Corp would spend $16 billion on two new flash memory plants.
Shares in Sony were up 2.8 percent at 5,150 yen in afternoon trade while Toshiba fell 2.8 percent to 801 yen. The Tokyo stock market's electrical machinery index was down 2.1 percent.
never will go bluray though.
