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Toshiba... stick to making what your good at.... NOTHING!


really.... your laptops have completely sucked for the last 7 years... *cough*clas action lawsuit*cough* ahem.. waht do you do thats good?

just stop.

and in the land of 4TB raid arrays costing less than $1000... why do you think your meeger 30GB offering would compete? who wants a technology that stores 60% of the data their competitors stores??

MORONS!

Just further evidence of Microsoft's true irrelevance. They were the biggest proponent of this technology. With MS's resources and ubiquity, why could it not keep HD DVD viable? Because MS basically sucks, that's why. They couldn't innovate their way out of a paper bag. Hence, any company relying on MS for support is doomed to fail. Let's hope that Yahoo doesn't fall victim to this jugger-not

What will all the fanboys who took sides over a dumbass format war do now?

I guess Microsoft got tired of pushing and paying. Amen.

Surely not good news for Microsoft either, with its promotion of HDVD.

Sure looks like the days of Microsoft being a major influential player in matters like this are dying.

That's the really good news then!

Feb 19, 08 - 11:41 am Comment from: Jubei

Maybe MS shouldn't give up and continue to pour billions and billions into it? Hehe

How many X-Box users bought HD drive for their wanna be PS3 player?

Feb 19, 08 - 12:01 pm Comment from: loganson

I look forward to the price of Blu-ray players falling. Hopefully this will speed the process.

Hey Zune Wang,

Got HD DVD????

All the best,

Ray

It's looking like Sony had the long-term vision this time by bundling the Blu-ray player and HD into their PS3. MS, of course, is not capable of vision - only copying what Apple is doing, hence the miserable hardware that is the XBox. Perhaps the lesson is that the company with the vision and innovation is the one that succeeds.

Now that's settled, how about Sony make the PS3 easier to network with Mac OS X? Right now the procedure is just stupidly complex.

Feb 19, 08 - 12:23 pm Comment from: Lazy European

Actually, HD-DVD wasn't all bad. No regions, and Microsoft's HDi was technologically more advanced than the JAVAthingy Blueray uses. But nice to see Microsoft defeated once more.

And don't forget Apple ally Intel was also on-board with HD-DVD.

Feb 19, 08 - 12:25 pm Comment from: Predrag

And now, the following will happen:

1. Rapid growth in Blu-Ray player sales;
2. Rapid decline in Blu-Ray players prices (below $150);
3. Rapid growth of library titles on Blu-Ray (and sub- $25 prices);
4. Rapid growth of selection of Blu-Ray burners (R and RW);
5. Rapid decline of blank Blu-Ray media prices

(Did I mention 'rapid' often enough?)

This gives me the final excuse to:

1. Buy HD TV
2. Buy HD camcorder (Canon Vixia HF 100 perhaps?)

I may not buy BD player just yet (until it goes below $100), since I don't watch movies, but for home movies (I have small children), I have to act very quickly. AVCHD and Blu-Ray are hand and glove. FCE can work with AVCHD out of the box. All the pieces are ready for long-term format stability. I think we can all officially agree, HD has finally arrived.

Feb 19, 08 - 12:31 pm Comment from: madgunde

@tt
Wow, can someone please show me where I can get a 4TB RAID array for under $1000? I'd really like to know...

Feb 19, 08 - 12:32 pm Comment from: ken1w

Will Toshiba start making Blu-Ray devices?

Feb 19, 08 - 12:37 pm Comment from: Mr. Reeee

Good Riddance.

I see an upsampling Sony Blu-ray player in my future...

Why do you morons keep pushing your MAC BluRay format even though it's doomed to failure? Great, Toshiba won't be making their HD DVD players anymore–this will just increase the supply for Microsoft's awesome Xbox HD DVD players and lower the prices.

I'll be rocking to my next-generation HD DVD-playing Zune long after you MAC retards finally figure out how to put a CD drive in a MacBook Air. Good luck with that.

Your Potential. Our Passion.

Feb 19, 08 - 12:52 pm Comment from: Zune Tang®

Not bad.

Your potential. Our passion.™

Good riddance HD-DVD. You won't be missed....

Feb 19, 08 - 01:02 pm Comment from: Chuck U Farley

While I am happy BR won, I am reminded of the VHS/BETA format war. Most of you youngsters probably have no idea how many people got screwed on that one. This entire format war was totally pointless and should never have happened. Also, this is the exact reason I have not yet purchased one of the two formats. Anyone who bought a HD DVD player is a sucker and should have known better.

Feb 19, 08 - 01:02 pm Comment from: Think

@tt

I second that. Where is 4TB RAID array for under $1000?

Western Digital 1TB bare drives are $230 x 4 = $920.

OK, still haven't paid for tax and shipping.
Oh yea, then there's that thing called the RAID enclosure that you put the drives in.
Cables.
PCI X card.

And that still only gets you 3TB of space.

Feb 19, 08 - 01:36 pm Comment from: Ampar

"Where is 4TB RAID array for under $1000?"

You can easily get a rental truck, a ski mask, a Universal Lock Out Tool Kit and decent gloves for under $1,000.

Anyone else impressed at how Apple seemingly always "gets" the right format or trend or direction to go?

Not trying to be too much of a fanboy, but Apple sure seems to get the call right most of the time. That's pretty amazing when you think about it.

Feb 19, 08 - 02:21 pm Comment from: DogGone

Does anyone else make HD DVD drives? Where will M$ get theirs?

There will be no reason to buy an HD-DVD player/drive because there will be no movies released on HD-DVD. That's what they mean when they say the format war is over. HD-DVD lost. This means that the people who have HD-DVD players including the M$ Xbox360 people will eventually have to buy BD players to get high definition movies. There will be no reason for M$ to produce HD-DVD players because there will be little or no reason to buy one because new releases will only come out on DVD and BD.

Feb 19, 08 - 03:30 pm Comment from: MrMcLargeHuge

And there was much rejoicing.

Add me to the list of people happy that Microsoft will continue to remain as far away from my home theater as possible.



--mAc

So, this means that ... Rob Enderle was wrong?

(Should've posted this in MDN's Friday Wal-Mart story, but I didn't find it until later.)

Good point Follower!

Enderle, like Micro$h*t, always gets it wrong!!

Since when does the LACK of competition drive prices DOWN?

Feb 19, 08 - 08:22 pm Comment from: NCIceman

Watch Microsoft try to limp this along...all those XBox HD DVD drives going to waste now. Just goes to show you their decision-making skills.

I was at London Drugs today.

They had a promo in their flyer, offering a Panasonic HDDVD with SEVEN disks — for $198.

And it struck me. This isn't a great bargain. It's unethical.

Feb 20, 08 - 12:32 am Comment from: Hg Wells

Yes, I expect to see Toshiba begin to make Blu-Ray equipment at some point in the near future.

"Since when does the LACK of competition drive prices DOWN?"

When a little thing called "mass adoption" occurs, and that was never going to happen as long as there were 2 HD optical formats. Now Blu-ray will be free to take off with consumers, and the more players and movies that sell, the lower the prices will become. That's exactly what happened with DVD in it's early years.