Sun 2008/02/17 08:16
Toshiba is officially pulling out of the HD DVD market leaving Blu-Ray to dominate the market until the new format comes out in 2100. Anybody purposely went out to buy a HD DVD player? Maybe Toshiba lost because of the size of their HD DVD players ... "Abayo" [あばよ] means "Goodbye" and is a colloquial form of "Sayonara." It also has a "goodbye forever" nuisance. Thanks to Panther Hunt for sending this in via NYTimes and Akihabara News. HD DVD CM Below.
Posted on Sun 2008/02/17 08:16 by
Raven, AMV & MAD maker, Otaku
wow. looking at the size of that player makes me think that it has to be really really old. since it also looks heavy
(ID #29563) Posted on 2008/02/17 23:20
Student
That isn't only a HD DVD player, thats also a recorder with 1 TB hard drive and also an amplifier aka av receiver which can decode Dolby Digital Plus, Dolby TrueHD, and DTS-HD codecs, this thing is beast in terms of sound and image system, hope blu-ray launches a similar thing one day. As my late grandfather used to say: "the heavier the equipment (sound systems) the better and he was right ^^ one the latest sound systems requires two men to lift it up but I can't recall its name.
(ID #29600) Posted on 2008/02/18 02:15
Part human, part student, 100% loser
I guess killing two birds with one stone best suits this system? IT can play, it can record and it can even be used to knock out people, amazing...
(ID #29605) Posted on 2008/02/18 03:02
You do know this is all based on rumors right? There hasn't been any official confirmation of this from toshiba, nor a denial, but it isn't official yet.
(ID #29564) Posted on 2008/02/17 23:26
Director/代表取締役
Was on the news last night in Japan http://www.akihabaranews.com/en/news_details.php?id=15518
(ID #29574) Posted on 2008/02/17 23:51
Yeah, but still, That newsreport was based on a lead from a person who would like to remain ''unknown'' I think it's fishy. I'll believe it when Toshiba announces it, if I had 5 cents for every rumor about nvidia products that didn't come true, I'd have at least two Euro :P
(ID #29580) Posted on 2008/02/18 00:06
(little doublepost) Don't get me wrong, I'm well aware that it died last friday. Just that it isn't official yet :P
(ID #29583) Posted on 2008/02/18 00:14
.NET/Web Developer
I think Toshiba is has accepted that they lose the war this time. I read a post on engadget last friday about them probably looking into building blu ray players I think. I've forgotten the details. LOL
(ID #29908) Posted on 2008/02/19 01:18
the hd dvd vs blue ray war was over when warner bros decided to side with blu ray
(ID #29566) Posted on 2008/02/17 23:34
anime/cosplay events organizer
if i were in Toshiba's shoes right now, i'll accept that i've lost the HD DVD-Blu-ray war but i haven't lost the war ^^
(ID #29577) Posted on 2008/02/17 23:54
If i was in tobisha's shoes I'd be crying.
(ID #29586) Posted on 2008/02/18 00:26
Bit glad I didn't buy a notebook with an HD-DVD drive a while back. So what happens to everyone who bought a HD-DVD player?
(ID #29581) Posted on 2008/02/18 00:07
Same thing that happened to everyone who bought Betamax, they regret it, lol. But Sony actually won this one.
(ID #29662) Posted on 2008/02/18 08:23
So far I'm watching the HD wars as a spectator and won't buy a player for either format any time soon. Wake me up by the time there is something like libdvdcss for the winning format to get rid of the region lockout and copy protection crap. No, I won't copy the discs, I just want to be able to play them on the hardware and the OSes (e. g. Linux) of MY choice. Anyway, in my opinion the DVD is still good enough. I don't have a HDTV. ^^
(ID #29585) Posted on 2008/02/18 00:21
I don't know why but when i see hddvd and blueray, I have a feeling that blueray is more good than hddvd. I got the feeling that if there are blueray, there will be hdblueray someday :D.
(ID #29589) Posted on 2008/02/18 00:41
The war was over when they decided PS3 should have blu-ray. But success is years away.
(ID #29592) Posted on 2008/02/18 00:54
Yeah, I agree with you. I myself choose blueray because I know PS3 can play blueray. Xbox maybe strong in US, but no compare for PS3 in the global market.
(ID #29595) Posted on 2008/02/18 01:23
Deathseeker
This just means - save up for a PS3. No need for a Blu-Ray player, if you are going to be gaming anyway.
(ID #29599) Posted on 2008/02/18 02:02
I wish PS3 had some halfway decent games in America though.
(ID #29654) Posted on 2008/02/18 07:24
The funny thing is that they actually sold more HD DVD players than Blu-Ray plyers, but since the ps3 comes with a Blu-Ray player in it, it meant that more households ended up with sony's format. . What I want now is a cheap burner so I can put 10 dvds worth of anime into 1 disk. It will things much more convenient.
(ID #29601) Posted on 2008/02/18 02:36
It's not official yet, though NHK and Reuters already announced they got the information from an unofficial source inside Toshiba HQ. HD-DVD sold lots of players because they were cheaper than any other blu-ray counterpart. And also, some interesting bits of information: - HD-DVD is a more consolidated standard. Every player will work with any HD-DVD media just fine. Blu-ray isn't like that. Early adopters will know how screwed up the first revisions of Blu-ray were; - HD-DVD is a cheaper technology, though less advanced. Doesn't require blue lasers, thus making it more a DVD upgrade rather than reformulation; What happened then? 1. Blu-ray readers were sold with PS3s; 2. Sony just have more money and more power. Major studios supported blu-ray, even knowing it's still an incomplete standard; 3. The whole media rushed the format war. Because quite frankly, it was becoming annoying and bad for consumers. Not much different from CD+R CD-R DVD+R DVD-R... or even Betamax. As for meeself, I wish HD-DVD remained alive... not really for movies, but maybe as a backup format. You know, cheap recording drives and cheap media would be just enough for me to adopt the format.
(ID #29603) Posted on 2008/02/18 02:56
Is this robot from Star Wars that Luke entangled with his ship?
(ID #29620) Posted on 2008/02/18 04:39
ひきこもり/Hikikomori. Suits my current state more than a 大学生/University Student. ^^
This news has left me in good mood since I've always been blu-ray fan boy ^^
(ID #29622) Posted on 2008/02/18 04:41
Afro-ed Student
lolwut?
(ID #29637) Posted on 2008/02/18 05:08
Does it mean Sony is really getting back to the track of victories? lol, just kidding.
(ID #29638) Posted on 2008/02/18 05:12
VF-25 Pilot. Universariate Scholar.
i couldnt care less. just glad that this bs format war has ended.
(ID #29646) Posted on 2008/02/18 06:17
You really think it will take till 2100 for the next format to come out? DVD only came out a little more than 10 years ago and VHS 20 years before that. maybe the next format will be out in five years by that pattern? Possibly in time for the next generation of game systems to include it?
(ID #29667) Posted on 2008/02/18 08:33
yeah HVD is the next best thing untill they come up with the shinny crystals from babylon 5.. :D linky...http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holographic_Versatile_Disc
(ID #29674) Posted on 2008/02/18 08:46
Ain't sad to see it go. Now if only Blu-ray movies were cheaper...
(ID #29675) Posted on 2008/02/18 08:55
the design is no good.Look to heavy and looks like...old =/. hd dvd doesn't lose to blu-ray in quality?
(ID #29699) Posted on 2008/02/18 13:08
What will happen to Paramount and especially Universal now, because both of them are still using HD DVD? For me this what now happened wasn't a surprise, but I didn't expect it to happen so soon. Lately they've sold much more Blu-Ray discs in the USA and Japan than HD DVDs. I'm not sure about the situation in Europe though, but I guess Blu-Ray is more popular here too. By the way, it is funny, that there isn't any special reason to buy that cheapest Sony Blu-Ray player, because PS3 has the same technology, but is less expensive. It's interesting to see the evolution of Blu-Ray. I think I read, that soon there'll be Blu-Ray discs with five layers, so that would mean huge capacity.
(ID #29711) Posted on 2008/02/18 13:47
Never used one so....I guess I don't care :/
(ID #29718) Posted on 2008/02/18 14:29
The ps3 is what won it for Sony. Every single ps3 sold was a new BluRay player in someone's home. There was just no way that HD-DVD could compete with that. I myself have a ps3, so I'm glad that BluRay won. I'm currently watching Utawarerumono on BluRay, and it is simply gorgeous.
(ID #29763) Posted on 2008/02/18 16:42
LOL at new format which will come out it 2100... At least we know which format to choose from now on..
(ID #29975) Posted on 2008/02/19 07:51
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