bigfool1956;270604 Wrote: 
> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/7250068.stm
> 
> Blu-ray has the potential to give us higher-than-cd quality music, of
> course we would want to be able to get that off the disc and onto the
> hard drive....
> 
> Guess this thread is for non-US citizens only, as even making a post
> would be illegal, as I understand it...... Oh dear.

Yeah, HD-DVD is dead.

Just in the last two weeks Wal Mart & Netflix announced they are
completely dropping HD-DVD content and players. Target saw the writing
on the wall a year ago and stopped stocking HD-DVD players in their
stores. Best Buy announced it will "officially recomend Blu-ray only".
Other large retailers will follow. Toshiba is expected to announce
(very soon) that they are ending HD-DVD player production and
abandoning the format, though this could mean limited production
players and content for another year or so. But Toshiba is abandoning
the format as they are *bleeding* money on the format. Source material
will still be available for a while, but there will be little (if any)
new materials released on HD-DVD a year from now. If / when Toshiba
officially abandons the format that should release the few remaining
studios from their contractural agreements with Toshiba & HD-DVD.

Please note, I am NOT a Blu-ray owner nor fan, I'm just relaying what
is widely known and discussed in HTR forums and articles as this is my
hobby. :)


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