The HD war is officially over
What you could have guessed yesterday has become certain and definitive today.
At a press conference organized for today, Toshiba announced the fact that it will stop maintaining the HD DVD standard. Although the company did not specify the background of the decision, the film publishers and commercial chains that have clearly voted for Sony's format in recent times may have played a major role in the "discarding" of the format. It is not yet known how the industry itself will react to this decision, in any case, the value of Toshiba's shares increased by nearly 6 percent yesterday, which may even indicate a kind of relief on the part of the company's shareholders.
The supply of HD DVD players and writers will be continuously reduced by the manufacturer, and it is planned that in April only the persistence of store stocks can delay the cessation of the fallen format. Of course, the manufacturer provides full support for the devices you have already purchased, so you don't have to worry about someone who voted for one of the parties a little hastily.
The question is, after that, how will Microsoft decide what will happen to the HD DVD drive that can be purchased alongside our Xbox 360 console? There has been no official response from Redmond yet, the rumor machine is predicting an Xbox with a Blu-ray drive anyway.
