The HD DVD War Is Over - Blu-Ray Prevails
The high definition DVD of the war is over. The challengeur threw in the towel and the winner has the arm droben.
Toshiba’s announcement that its HD-DVD format has been abandoned expectations confirmed that Sony’s blue ray solution would be more expensive trench.
Both systems are competing for the two years now fights first racing neck and neck. The sentence in red, when Warner Brothers back Blu-ray and said he would only films in question, that the format in the future.
One by another content provider and retailers have their voices to the Sony option.
The last nail in the coffin of HD-DVD seems, Wal-mart has been the stage for a decision on their stores, announced earlier this month.
One reason for the margin of receiving hey Sony has been the development of Blu-Ray and its PlayStation 3, ie, they had a lot more readers is installed and working, than its competitors.
As his way after the failure of the format of museums, along the sideline, that most famous exhibition, Betamax, who harvested in their own HD-DVD are left dry.
The millions of people who bought in good faith, have good reason to be poorly made. Even though the prices came from an initial nearly £ 500 to £ 150, which is an amount of money to have attached to a player for whom very few DVD is now on the shelves.
The crucial question today concerns plans for the HD-DVD, units resting in camps and on the shelves of retail trade. Will they be amortized, or are they good as a candidate buyer as naive are they sold? It should be the former, which it regarded as outdated in recent weeks - Feb. 25, 2008.