If Toshiba is quitting the Civil War of DVD Formats and giving in to BluRay, they should let their employees know.
Toshiba is widely expected to pull the plug on its HD DVD format sometime in the coming weeks, reliable industry sources say, after a rash of retail defections that followed Warner Home Video’s announcement in early January that it would support only the rival Blu-ray Disc format after May.
Now this is still all solid speculation and nothing is set in stone, however the article does hit on some serious hints.
HD DVD North American Promotional Group canceled its Consumer Electronics Show presentation. As well, market analysis showed Blu-ray took in 93% of all hardware sales for the week that cancellation was announced. (Despite cutting the retail price of HD-DVD players in half)
I was talking to a Toshiba product rep at an electronics superstore, and he was confident that Toshiba was still in the fight and he was quoting a lot of numbers that made it sound like Toshiba was on the tipping side of that scale.
If this speculative news is true, someone should let him know.
Guess I might finally have a reason to buy a Playstation 3 afterall.
