东芝正式宣布退出HD DVD事业，格式大战落下帷幕

Edison

The Japanese National TV NHK drop the news to all Japanese there is 25 minutes ago. The HD-DVD is almost dead and Toshiba is working on dropping this format for good... While the USA was almost the only largest country where the HD-DVD had its chance, the announce of Walmart to stop supporting the HD-DVD this Friday was a big blow for the Japanese Company. While there is YET to be an official announcement from Toshiba, NHK announced today that an end to this format war will be soon announced by Toshiba.

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Toshiba to exit HD DVD, end format war-NHK
Sat Feb 16, 2008 6:42am EST  Email | Print |
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| Reprints | Single Page [-] Text [+] TOKYO, Feb 16 (Reuters) - Toshiba Corp (6502.T: Quote, Profile, Research) is planning to stop production of equipment compatible with the HD DVD format for high-definition video, allowing the competing Blu-Ray camp a free run, public broadcaster NHK reported on Saturday.

Toshiba is expected to suffer losses amounting to tens of billions of yen (hundreds of millions of dollars) to scrap production of HD DVD players and recorders and other steps to exit the business, Japan's NHK said on its website.

No one at Toshiba could be reached for comment.

The format war between the Toshiba-backed HD DVD and Sony Corp's (6758.T: Quote, Profile, Research) Blu-Ray, often compared to the Betamax-VHS battle in the 1980s, has slowed the development of what is expected to be a multibillion dollar high-definition DVD industry.

Toshiba was dealt a blow on Friday when Wal-Mart Stores Inc (WMT.N: Quote, Profile, Research) said it would abandon the HD DVD format, becoming the latest in a series of top retailers and movie studios to rally behind Blu-ray technology for high definition DVDs.

Toshiba plans to continue selling HD DVD equipment at stores for the time being but will not put resources into developing new devices, NHK said. (Reporting by Nathan Layne, editing by Mike Peacock)

Heng

沙发:funk: :funk: :funk: :funk:

迎风起舞

CAO。。。东芝，孬种~~

datou

日本人赢了...

spiritmoon

关键是25仔太多。

gz_easy

看来沃尔玛从今年年中开始只销售蓝光也不是无中生有。

itany

买了XBOX光驱的要哭了…… 不过过不了多久应该就会有蓝光外置光驱出来吧 :funk:

moonfighter

有钱才是老大~~

gz_easy

原帖由 xi066 于 2008-2-16 21:19 发表
果然有SONY支持和制造的东西不大会失败啊。

N年前SONY Betamax不就失败了。

leedemon

sony的ps3作为游戏机输了，播放器赢了)_)

VGASOS

ps3賭贏囉 果然硬上bd是對滴 一堆的廉價播放器 不贏才奇怪呢

爱神餐馆

东芝也不行啊

爱神餐馆

东芝也不行啊。。。

Edison

原帖由 leedemon 于 2008-2-16 21:27 发表
sony的ps3作为游戏机输了，播放器赢了)_)

CNET的说法是预计今年PS3销量比去年翻一倍达到2千万台:sweatingbullets:

datou

原帖由 xi066 于 2008-2-16 21:19 发表
果然有SONY支持和制造的东西不大会失败啊。

音频CD,磁带,ps/ps2是赢家

betamax是输家

MD,ps3/psp还说不准....

leedemon

原帖由 Edison 于 2008-2-16 21:32 发表

CNET的说法是预计今年PS3销量比去年翻一倍达到2千万台:sweatingbullets:

估计都是当播放器的吧，我有个朋友也准备买ps3，不是玩游戏，是看电影...

xreal

:huh: hddvd没有装上x360内部是东芝失败的原因。sony这下两头得势，ps3又无敌了。