It’s official. Toshiba released a statement yesterday saying they will no longer develop, manufacture or market HD DVD.
That’s it. The war is over. Blu-ray has won.

I’m surprised.

I thought that the history Sony has in failed media would be enough to bring down the Blu-ray Disc Association. Their smarter bet of collaboration paid off this time… at least for now.

I still don’t think Blu-ray is a good long-term standard. It won’t make it. I think it will be here and gone and one day we’ll be talking about it with our kids, “They used to put movies on these big things called LaserDiscs.”

Oh… my father-in-law just bought one…. a HD DVD player.

I told him to try to return it as fast as he could.

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