AshwinBihari.COM » hddvd http://ashwinbihari.com Sat, 08 May 2010 19:50:58 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Death of HD DVD http://ashwinbihari.com/2008/02/15/death-of-hd-dvd http://ashwinbihari.com/2008/02/15/death-of-hd-dvd#comments Fri, 15 Feb 2008 17:55:43 +0000 Ashwin http://ashwinbihari.com/2008/02/15/death-of-hd-dvd The battle of the next-gen format between HD-DVD and Blu-Ray might be finally coming to an end. My XBOX 360 has the optional HD-DVD accessory and I chose not to get it for the fact that I don’t own that many movies and it sure would be a shame to buy either system until the format for the future was chosen for certain.

All the recent buzz and a article on eWeek seem to declare the demise of HD-DVD and Blu-Ray the chosen format. I wonder what this means to the XBOX 360.

I guess in this case early adopters of HD-DVD are the ones that will pay dearly to not only abandon their current HD-DVD players but potentially pick up a Blu-Ray player or PS3? :)

Updated 02/23/08
Turns out that Toshiba decided to waive the white flag on HD DVD officially. All early Blu-Ray adopters now get to walk around with their nose held high and tongue sticking out at anyone who’d question their Next-gen HD choice. I guess Sony’s choice to bundle the Playstation 3 with Blu-Ray players was a smart idea after all.

Cheers

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