HD DVD Is Dead, Long Live Blue-ray
- By Chief Editor
- Published 26 Feb 2008
Chief Editor
Experienced IT professional and frequent blogger with a special interest in technology, the internet, photography and motoring.
As many of you will have already read, Toshiba has announced they are withdrawing from the HD DVD market - they will continue to support their existing hardware.
And Microsoft has decided to stop making the HD DVD add-on drive for the Xbox 360 games console - again, Microsoft will continue to provide warranty support for the HD DVD drive.
One wonders whether Microsoft, or a third party provider, will now produce an external Blue-ray drive for Xbox owners.
Sony PlayStation 3 owners already have a Blue-ray drive built into their consoles.
Toshiba's announcement seemingly signals the death of the HD DVD format.
Those readers over the age of about 35 will remember a similar rival technology battle between VHS and Betamax in the late 1970s and early 1980s.
That time Sony was the mass market loser in what has gone down in history as a classic example of technological rivalry.
Cue a flood of HD DVD players and recorders on eBay?
And Microsoft has decided to stop making the HD DVD add-on drive for the Xbox 360 games console - again, Microsoft will continue to provide warranty support for the HD DVD drive.
One wonders whether Microsoft, or a third party provider, will now produce an external Blue-ray drive for Xbox owners.
Toshiba's announcement seemingly signals the death of the HD DVD format.
Those readers over the age of about 35 will remember a similar rival technology battle between VHS and Betamax in the late 1970s and early 1980s.
That time Sony was the mass market loser in what has gone down in history as a classic example of technological rivalry.
Cue a flood of HD DVD players and recorders on eBay?