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Breaking: Toshiba Schedules Press Conference, HD DVD Announcement Expected

Mon Feb 18, 2008 at 09:00 PM ET

Toshiba has scheduled a press conference for later today, at which it is widely expected to announce that it is officially ceasing support of the HD DVD format.

Japanese news site Nikkei.net broke the news that Toshiba has scheduled a press conference for 5pm Tokyo time Tuesday (that's 12am PST), at which the company is expected to announce that it will immediately stop manufacturing all HD DVD hardware and that it will cease selling them at retail by the end of March.

The news comes on the heels of a rapid succession of high-profile setbacks for the format over the past last week. First, three major retailers -- Netflix, Best Buy and Wal-Mart -- each announced plans to endorse the rival Blu-ray format, followed by intense speculation that Toshiba was mulling over its exit strategy for the nearly two-year old next-gen format (a claim that the company later confirmed, though it stopped short of declaring whether any decision had been made).

Needless to say, we'll keep you posted on any news out of Toshiba's press conference tonight, as well as any other developments as they unfold.

 

Source: http://www.highdefdigest.com/news/show/Toshiba/Industry_Trends/Breaking:_Toshiba_Schedules_Press_Conference,_HD_DVD_Announcement_Expected/1479

 

 

The end is finally near, hopefully. =D 

 

 

 

Awwww nuts. I read a few other forums where the war is discussed in depth.

I might have to do work in work now =(

Sweet. Soon a mod can lock Blue3's infamous thread.

Yes it should finally be over, does anyone expect PS3 sales to boost in the next couple of weeks?

I knew it was the end when Warner Bros joined the blu side

pichu_pichu said: we knew it was the end when Warner Bros joined the blu side

 no, it ended when Walmart jumped to the blu side

Finally! Will only be good for the industry to have only one HD-format :D

I will bring some flowers

who here is planning to bring some tears?

lol. Remember when so many people here said Wal-Mart would kill Blu-Ray by beginnng to sell sub $99 HD-DVD players from China?

ssj12 said: pichu_pichu said: we knew it was the end when Warner Bros joined the blu side  no, it ended when Walmart jumped to the blu side

It was over before Wal-mart made their move. Warner was the turning point in the war. Once Warner made their announcement, Toshiba had to pull out a miracle in order to stop their inevitable demise. All they could manage was another price drop (which didn't impress anyone based on the lack of sales) and they wasted some money on a super bowl ad (that didn't show in most areas, and half the areas it did show it was in SD!!)