Toshiba dumps HD DVD
Toshiba has announced that it will no longer develop, manufacture and market HD DVD players and recorders, acknowledging the victory of the rival Blu-Ray format.
Toshiba has announced that it will no longer develop, manufacture and market HD DVD players and recorders, acknowledging the victory of the rival Blu-Ray format.
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Toshiba’s Qosmio G40 is a real beauty in some ways, and a beast in others. The multimedia notebook weighs in at 5kg and is nearly half a metre wide and five centimetres thick.
At the same time as it launches the first players for its HD-DVD high-definition video format, Toshiba has released a notebook computer that is as much an entertainment device as it is a computing platform.
The drive to replace DVD technology with newer discs boasting greater storage capacity has come down to two major competing formats, and the coming marketplace battle will be bad for companies and users, the head of a major US technology products retailer says.