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Toshiba Officially Applies to Join the Blu-ray Disc Association

Late last month, there were a series of reports on the Internet stating that Toshiba was planning to launch its own Blu-ray Disc player, joining Sony and other industry players in the Blu-ray Disc Association. Following said reports, the company has officially announced today that it has applied for membership of the...

10 August 2009
04:23 GMT

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 features into the Apple TV could bring over a billion dollars annually."We estimat...

17 March 2008
06:57 GMT

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 t...

13 March 2008
07:04 GMT

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 companies had taken a bold step forward and had dropped HD DVD a lot...

20 February 2008
14:06 GMT

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...

19 February 2008
04:49 GMT

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,...

18 February 2008
07:46 GMT

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's waiting for Toshiba to finally acknowledge its defeat and...

22 January 2008
14:36 GMT

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 T...

12 December 2007
13:56 GMT


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