Official: HD DVD dead and buried, format war is over – Engadget
It’s official. Toshiba just made a statement saying, ” it will no longer develop, manufacture and market HD DVD players and recorders.” Cessation of the player and recorders are targeted for March 2008.
After buying my PS3 shortly after they came out, I hesitated on buying any Blu-ray movies. Even though it had a built in BD player, I didn’t want to start investing in movies until it got to the point where I felt like BD would be the main format. Towards the middle of the year last year, I decided to start buying a few movies here and there.
Well, in the last few months, the floodgates for me have opened and I have started taking advantage of all the Blu-ray sales that have been going on. I haven’t been disappointed at all and am hardly buying standard DVDs.
I am not planning on upgrading all of my DVDs, just new releases and select movies that I want in high def. Of course if Blu-ray prices ever drop to the point where DVDs are, that might change as well!
I’ve been holding out for a clear winner in the format war and now that we have one, I guess that it is time for me to start thinking about upgrading to HD and Blu-Ray.
I bought an HD-DVD player around Thanksgiving last year, with the plan to also buy a PS3 when I could afford it, so I’d have both formats. I figured Blu-Ray would win, but that I’d still have another year or so of new HD-DVDs to choose from. Well, I haven’t been able to swing the PS3 yet, and now the format war is over.
Oh well, I still have some beautiful discs that will play for years, and hopefully existing discs will come down in price, and I can get sets like “Planet Earth” for a steal.