What does HD DVD’s silence tell you?

[Sonny]

Thats because there is NO hope. HDDVD is finished.

[NutsAboutPS3]

We have to expect silence for a while till all interested parties can meet to discuss what to do next. I think there is a significant chance that they will decide there is no point throwing good money after bad and creating even more angry consumers with every player sold to a confused and ignorant buyer. I really do think Toshiba may do the decent thing and just end it all in the near future, releasing Paramount from their contractual obligations, with perhaps a phasing out of all HD DVD releases over the next 6 months, and an even earlier phasing out of player sales. They will perhaps release a dual format player in the future to ensure that people can always play their existing HD DVDs, even if their current player breaks down.

[Go Blu]

They never had lossless audio.

[Li'l Nicky]

The silence means defeat and perhaps some moronic attempt at spinning the loss of a major contributor of the format's software sales into something of a defeat for blu-ray. Some idiots congregating in the arse end of the internet will eat it up.

If they keep going with HD-DVD, they're just going to end up in a deeper financial hole and more angry customers. It would be great to see how some retailers around the globe will react to this. If retailers drop HD-DVD, software and hardware can not be sold, forcing them to switch to blu-ray. Beautiful. Just beautiful.

[NovaBomb]

They need time to restratigize that dosent included Warner, thats what I think I silence is all about.

[ScarredLungs]

Originally Posted by Sonny

Thats because there is NO hope. HDDVD is finished.

Originally Posted by buckshot

that sometimes an injured animal will crawl away to die. they're in the elephant's graveyard of dead formats.

I think these two posts answer that question most gracefully

[Radimus]

with the Toshiba/DVD Group CES conference cancelled. i think they re manning up. theyre going to shift gears, give up the format.. and Toshiba is going to just go for bank and make Blu Ray players.


thats the announcement im expecting.

[megablank]

Maybe they have been informed about another soon to be announced studio shift?

It was reported that Warner told them them about their decission on Thursday already. So if, for example, Universal has similar plans, they will know it now for sure.

I think as they are mainly backed by Toshiba, which is an asian company, they are looking how to get out of this as fast as possible but without loosing face.

Markus

[stockstar1138]

hey toshiba give up now and........loseless money than by throwing money down the toliet

by the way current silence we are hearing out of HD DVD promo group is lossy, even in their most desperate of times they can't even get some TrueHD slienc.

[stringent]

Originally Posted by Go Blu

They never had lossless audio.

They never had the 51TL disc either ...

[CptGreedle]

Originally Posted by Go Blu

They never had lossless audio.

Actually.... http://www.hddvdstats.com/

22.82% of all HD DVD use Lossless audio.


while 62.95% of all Blu-ray uses lossless audio. (http://blu-raystats.com)