Several hours ago Toshiba had a press conference in Japan, and even before Toshiba president Atsutoshi Nishida took the stage a press release hit the wires:
“Toshiba Announces Discontinuation of HD DVD Businesses”
After talking a bit about how great the HD DVD format was, Nishida announced that Toshiba was existing the HD DVD business and his company is targeting March for this to happen.
For people with HD DVD recorders concerned that they will shortly find themselves without access to media, Toshiba said that they would stockpile HD DVD recording media and sell them online so that should help a bit.
Will Toshiba go Blu-ray? The official answer was “no plans at all, not at this moment.”
I can’t imagine Toshiba won’t want a piece of that market, so I’d imagine its just a matter of time before a Toshiba Blu-ray player is announced. Certainly before the holiday season begins.
I wonder what Microsoft’s next move will be? They were basically committed to HD DVD as long as Toshiba was, so maybe we will see that rumored Blu-ray addon drive for the Xbox 360 soon…
[Via Engadget]
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