Toshiba Responds to the Warner News
Posted by Dave Cowl
closeAuthor: Dave Cowl
Name: Dave Cowl
Email: dave@formatwarcentral.com
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About: Originally from New Zealand, Dave now resides in the San Francisco Bay Area. With a doctorate in Electrical Engineering, Dave's day job
involves developing high resolution LCoS projectors.
Dave also has a strong interest in cinema and film making, and has
always been an early adopter - he still uses his Sony DVP-S7000 DVD
Player and also owns first generation Blu-ray, HD DVD and DTheater
D-VHS equipment.
Dave has been following the HD Disc format war since the beginning,
which resulted in the Blu-ray Statistics and HD DVD Statistics
websites, designed to track the studio progress with features as they
have released HD media product.See Authors Posts (349) on January 4, 2008
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Toshiba has responded in a press release to the news (see below) that Warner will stop releasing new titles on HD DVD in mid 2008.
In the press release Toshiba reaffirms their support of the HD DVD format and states that it is surprised by Warner’s decision.
Curiously they say that "HD DVD players and PCs have outsold Blu-ray in the US market in 2007", which perhaps needs some clarification since the sales of PCs would seem to dwarf the sales of HD DVD and Blu-ray altogether.
In any case it will be interesting to see what the HD DVD PRG and Toshiba do in the days ahead.
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