Press release - "Toshiba Announces Discontinuation of HD DVD Businesses"

[Evashun]

The war is over.

[maximiza]

good by..... farewell , arevaderche

[jmkahn]

Here's one of many major news paper articles to come USA TODAY . I bet this will be in the news for a couple of days a least. I'm so glad I never sunk low enough to buy a HDUD (now the correct term since it is officially dead) and stayed with Blu all the way.

[meyerste]

Well I guess its OFFICIAL!!!
Hi-def battle ends as Toshiba quits HD DVD

Check out the story on MSNBC - Link below:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23204819/

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[cajun1975]

Its a great day to love Blu. Hard to believe that it is finally over, but over it is.

[PS3-Playb3yond]

Originally Posted by cajun1975

Its a great day to love Blu. Hard to believe that it is finally over, but over it is.

I know, I can't believe it either.

[Ispoke]

Damn, had no access to a computer all day so could not check what had happened

Great news, well done to all those that supported Blu-ray and bought victory

[CGYBLU]

[pitabun]

Toshiba =

[martyboy35]

YES!!!
I said to a mate of mine last week that the final nail in the coffin for HD-DVD would come when Wal-Mart went Blu exclusive - and so it comes to pass!!!
Happy days!!!

GO BLU!

Now all we need to do is wait for Transformers BD and we will be laughing!!!

[RickD]

Rick

[DetroitSportsFan]

WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

[Wreck]

I know this has been a tiring topic lately with so many posts and thread running rampant, but atleat this one is offical as they announced it today.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23204819

Feel free to convert thread if need be... but figured some would like to see the official announcement.

[quaylie]

way too many of these threads.

[PLASMA-1080P-FULLHD]

already posted

[turboedguy]

How many times can they make it official?

It officially was official.

[quaylie]

change the thread to MSNBC HD DVD article or something...take off the official.

[quaylie]

I take it back..that's a good article though.

[Sonny]

I guesss the other 100 threads are 99%98%97%96%.........Official

[ottscay]

I thought this was very interesting Q&A in the Toshiba press conference (taken from engadget.com):

Q: How many HD DVD players and recorders, exactly, did you sell?
A: 600,000 players in the US -- 300,000 of which were Xbox 360 HD DVD drives. 100,000 units were sold in Europe. And about 10,000 players and 20,000 recorders in Japan. So about 730,000 units worldwide.


WTF??? So where did "1 million customers" come from if they didn't even sell a million units? I know that there were some rebadged players sold that could be counted separately, but not 300,000 of them.

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