DVD software authoring firm drops HD DVD support in HD DVD vs Blu-ray war
Thursday, January 31st, 2008
It looks like even if HD DVD was to continue for much longer, there may start being a lack of companies to even make the discs.
It looks like even if HD DVD was to continue for much longer, there may start being a lack of companies to even make the discs.
In a surprising move, the German arm of Sony has decided to give you credit on purchasing a Blu-ray player by bringing in your HD DVD player.
It seems that the HD DVD camp is looking to Super Bowl XLII to help save the sinking ship that their format has become.
Sometimes it’s easy to forget that the HD DVD vs Blu-ray is actually a global one, but the HD DVD supporters are painfully aware of it today.
There just seems to be no end to the constant onslaught of bad news for the HD DVD camp. Now it seems the sales numbers are catching up with them.
It seems that Universal Studios isn’t going to be changing their allegiance in the HD DVD vs Blu-ray war anytime soon.
HD DVD may have just gotten itself another three weeks of life support, but will it make a difference?
The consumers seem to have a few things to say about how the high definition format war should end, and they’re doing it via petitions.
In a sign of things to come, retailers are preparing to lower the visibility of HD DVD on their shelves, putting a larger emphasis on the rival format, Blu-ray.
While most HD DVD vs Blu-ray news has been focused on what’s happening in the United States, things aren’t so bright for HD DVD elsewhere in the world either.
Could the high definition wars be adding a third combatant in the form of Apple?
As the evidence mounts that HD DVD has lost the high definition format war, could Sony’s next generation video game console, the Playstation 3, be the best option for a Blu-ray player?
The numbers for last week’s sales of HD DVD disc have come in, the first since the mass exodus of several studios to Blu-ray, and they aren’t pretty.
Gawker media, the notorius New York City-based blog network, seems to be on everyone’s lips lately, but for all the wrong reasons.
With the ceaseless wave of bad news that’s been crashing against the good ship HD DVD, Toshiba, the main backer of the format, has to be happy with any piece of good news they get at this point.
Just as it seems that the HD DVD vs Blu-ray war is winding down, the reality of high definition downloads looms even larger than ever over the battlefield.
Maybe it’s just a normal price cut, or perhaps it’s a “fire sale”, but the prices of HD DVD players are coming down.