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| It's Either DVR for Apple TV or Blu-ray for Macs |  | American Technology Research analyst Shaw Wu sees Apple's "hobby," the Apple TV, as a future multi-billion dollar business. Why? It's simple really. DVR. According to the analyst, the implementation of digital video recording featu ... [read more >>] | | 17 March 2008, 06:57GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Toshiba Posts $1 Billion Loss on HD-DVD Pull-Out |  | Japanese conglomerate Toshiba expects about $1 billion yearly loss as the result of having shut down its HD DVD business. Toshiba conceded defeat last month after a few months of continual battle against Sony's Blu-Ray high-definition format.
The news was broken by Japanese business daily Nikkey, that declined to name its sources. As expected, Toshiba refused to comment upon the estimations, as based on rumors. "The ... [read more >>] | | 13 March 2008, 07:04GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| HD DVD Is Dead: The Aftermath |  | The official announcement made by Toshiba yesterday, within which it has acknowledged its defeat in the format war and has pulled the plug on the HD DVD format, has come as a surprise to relatively few people or organizations. However, although some compan ... [read more >>] | | 20 February 2008, 14:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| The Format War is Over! Toshiba Officially Declares HD DVD Dead! |  | The moment everyone's been expecting for the past couple of weeks has finally arrived! Thus, after receiving a couple of decisive blows over the past few weeks, culminating with Wal-Mart's announcement, Toshiba has finally decided to acknowledge the fact that it has lost the next-gen format war and declared that it has decided it will no longer develop, manufacture and market HD DVD players and recorders.
"We c ... [read more >>] | | 19 February 2008, 04:49GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| HD DVD Is so Dead, but Toshiba Still Won't Take it Off Life Support |  | There can't be a war without casualties, without an ultimate victor and a loser. This applies to just about any type of conflict, including the one between the two next-generation DVD formats, namely Sony's Blu-ray and Toshiba's HD DVD, which, in light of several announcements made over the past weeks, might actually be over as we speak.
First of all, there were the big announcements from January when Warner su ... [read more >>] | | 18 February 2008, 07:46GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| The Signs of HD DVD's Death Start Popping Up |  | As you might recall from our previous articles on the matter, HD DVD, the Toshiba-backed next-generation DVD format, is all but officially declared dead, after Warned has painted itself in the war colors of Blu-ray a short while back. Actually, everyone& ... [read more >>] | | 22 January 2008, 14:36GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| HD DVD, The Ultimate Victor of the Format War? |  | As usual, not a day goes by without yet another piece of information being relayed to us from the deep trenches of the next-generation DVD format war, accompanied by some further speculation regarding which side will ultimately prevail. And this time, we're talking about a research carried out by a firm called The Diffusion Group, which points out to the Toshiba-backed HD DVD format as the most likely to get all the spoils o ... [read more >>] | | 12 December 2007, 13:56GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
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