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meowmints on 29 July 2007

Sony caved into Toshiba for DVDs, so it's only fair Toshiba caves this time. Sony will then cave when it comes time for 3D holographic cubes.



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omgwtfbbq on 29 July 2007

better off with two formats. Then hopefully by the time one of these finally become mainstream hopefully someone will have completely cracked the ridiculous DRM on these discs. Or another DRM free format will emerge.



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sexybeast on 29 July 2007

Well the only Stand Alone HD player Target will sell is still Blu-Ray.



Shambolic on 29 July 2007

You shouldn't just write off Toshiba and HD-DVD. After all, even after they lost out to VHS Sony made quite a lot of money out of Betamax. If Blu-ray wins out, HD-DVD might well still find a niche.



WiteoutKing on 30 July 2007

So long as DVDs are still made I'm not buying jack from either format. I don't particularly care or want my discs upgraded right now, they're fine as is.



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ckmlb on 30 July 2007

The key to end the format wars is Universal annoucing they will support Blu Ray, not Toshiba giving up. When that happens, it's over.

Also, what do you expect Toshiba and Universal to say? They are holding on the the fact that the 360 HD DVD add on is still being sold and that players are still sold online. Lemme see, what's gonna sell more, a player you can get at a store or something you can only get online?



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Rath on 30 July 2007

Did target ever sell stand alone HDDVD players?



akuma587 on 30 July 2007

Actually, this retraction, which doesn't really look like a retraction as far as I can tell, is less important than the actual news. Even if it isn't true, more than a few people heard about the Target news, and it certainly didn't benefit the HD-DVD camp in anyway. The more bad news for HD-DVD, the more good news for Blu-Ray.

In any case, the news is still the same as I interpreted it. Blu-Ray will have the endcap and Target will sell only the Sony standalone player (and with regards to at least one of these things Target contacted Sony, not the other way around, I think the latter).

HD-DVD is dying. The only thing HD-DVD can hope for is to die slowly.



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Avalach21 on 30 July 2007
mitsuhide said:
Maybe everyone and i mean EVERYONE should send a letter to Toshiba sayind give up the HiDef disc wars its over save your money and time.

ok!  I'll do this as soon as everyone sends one to Sony and tells them to give up the Videogame wars.

 

Dear Sony,

It's over.  Save your money and time.



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ckmlb on 30 July 2007

Stop trolling.

Nintendo is winning in the beginning of a generation and suddenly Sony should quit after leading the past decade or so, right...



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