Verily I say unto thee, that William Poaster spake thusly:
> BBC News carried an item on this yesterday. They said that with the
> announcement that Toshiba is ceasing production of HD-DVDs,
> effectively the HD-DVD format is dead.
> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/7252172.stm
Thankfully there's only about one million worldwide who wasted their
money on HD-DVD, according to the article.
Meanwhile, here's a retrospective chuckle:
Universal Studios Unlikely to Ever Support Blu-ray
By Scott M. Fulton, III, BetaNews
September 18, 2006, 6:28 PM
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| A statement made on paper by Universal Studios president Craig
| Kornblau, and distributed by the HD DVD Promotions Group to
| attendees of CEDIA Expo 2006 in Denver last Friday, cites the early
| reviews from first-adopters in the next-generation videodisc battle
| as indication that HD DVD has already been crowned champion in the
| battle against Blu-ray.
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http://www.betanews.com/article/Universal_Studios_Unlikely_to_Ever_Support_Bluray/1158616603
Hehe!
So I take it this means that Universal will be exiting the film making
business, once the DVD format is retired.
Altogether now...
We are the champions, *we* are the champions... of the... oh!
--
K.
http://slated.org
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| "[Microsoft] are willing to lose money for years and years just to
| make sure that you don't make any money, either." - Bob Cringely.
| - http://blog.businessofsoftware.org/2007/07/cringely-the-un.html
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