Rumor: Toshiba gearing up to drop HD DVD

R.I.P. HD-DVD.

In my eyes you were the better product, but tragically only the good die young.

/sob

Its ok the idiots that bought bluray and supported it are the ones that will suffer as bluray movie prices climb and players hit the roof so sony can push the ps3 as a bluray player.The only reason shit was getting cheap was becuase of this war.I will stick with my free bluray downloads from utorrent and stream em to my 360 and out in hdmi goodness.

Digital Downloads ftw.

I love HD DVD...P.I.P. comentary from day one...ethernet port for updates and online disc use from day one...combo format (HD and DVD so they could be used on standard dvd players if used elsewhere) from day one...and the list goes on.
While I hate to see it go (I was an early adopter so I have a good collection of HD DVDs) it is nice to see this thing coming to an end. To see blu-ray win is a let down considering they are just barely getting into the P.I.P. and the online use and on top of that there is only ONE player with ethernet for updates *PS3* (which I do have just for blu-ray). They weren't the first to do anything they basically got everything from HD DVD. Alas, my blu-ray collection is strong and here's to a Toshiba HD DVD/Blu-ray combo player!
Toshiba...I know you are making this as we speak!

Where does this leave the under-spec'd, unreliable 360, with it's obsolete movie player?

:( HD DVD is definatley the better format. Oh well. At least I can look forward to the firesale that is sure to come soon. Also, that picture is hilarious.

I love my HDDVD's. "Transformers" is just awesome with the PIP and other features. My son watches it 2 times a day. I still can't believe Warner picked BluRay so fast this year. I think they should have given it some time. I mean, BluRay had a perfect storm set up. The PS3 was the best Blu player out there and it's a video game console. There were no games on it and BluRay kept getting all of the big releases. The PS3 owners probably felt they had to get BluRay's to justify thier purchase of a PS3. Now with more games availble, thier money and time will go to that. I'm not saying it would kill Blu, just have kept it more even keel with HD.

I have to admit that HD did a bad job of promotions though, which led to this. Blu had fancy slogans and commercials, and HD just kind of sat around. The HD supporters didn't really help either. Paramount could have released more than just Season One of Star Trek: The Original Series. Imagine The Next Generation on HD. They could have had great PIP's, schematics, info about aliens and planets. All kinds of stuff that Trekkies would love. Maybe it was in development but it just took too long.

I just believe that the wrong format won. People who bought early stand-alones could possibly be screwed with new profiles coming out. I just find that wrong.

Unfortunately my love of movies will eventually lead me to BluRay. However, I will wait until either Microsoft or Toshiba builds a player.

under spec'd 360 lol.Its so underspec'd it plays it can play the majority of its cross platform titles in 60fps where as the almighty ps3 cant.

Don't give me the 360 had a year lead crap its been over a year for ps3 still no cigar.

Im gonna play sometunes in game while i invite my boys thru my in game buddy list all while using my free headset on my xbox 360.

yeah ps3 is so superior.

The better format always dies out. Its the ones that are bribed with (ie movie companies) and forced on consumers that prevail (ie PSTurd). Oh well, its not like I spent a lot on movies or the player. And pretty soon blu ray will die out thanks to DD and streaming.

@ 5/Tranny - So your telling me your happy with your expensive blu ray player with no games? Enjoy your last playstation system, PS4 won't be happening.

great its over now. So when can I get that blu-ray attachment for my 360? I really don't want to buy a PS3...

Just like Betamax format was better than the VHS... which format won? I think you know.

It makes me laugh when people slam the 360 when something goes wrong with HD DVD. HD DVD is a movie format.. not a game format. I didnt buy my 360 to play HD DVD movies, i bought it to play games. Give it a rest.

Please? I want Blu-Ray on my 360.

I own both formats with about 60 titles of each, but 90% of my BD were $10 a piece of less on B1G1 deals. Does Sony think I'm going to pay $20+ per movie. haha. Yeah right! I just supported them cause I was getting HD content cheap. It's going to be funny when they realize, now why the heck are sales so much lower?

Steve-While you enjoy your free headset, the PS3 gamers enjoy their free PSN membership. Sure the PS3 isn't perfect but they're working on it.

Yeah just like there working on the games lol.360 owners dont have to wait its all here JUMP IN.

Funny, I did all that just 5 minutes ago, whilst playing SuperStardustHD.

Ingame Music TICK
Ingame Buddylist TICK
Ingame Friends and Messagign TICK
Tranando-Headset TICK (OK it' cost be $10 for a Bluetooth headset)

I think your information is over 12 months out of date..

As for no PS4, wake up. PS3 is selling quicker than the 360 and PS2, and only been beaten by the TickleMeWii..

12 months out of date?
so you have mgs4 now how is it?
you got that in game buddy list?
how bout that in game custom music?
And the free headset?

sounds to me your console is 5 years behind.

so when is the HD-dvd / blu ray attachment coming out? i would buy it, and i already got the hd-dvd attachment, mainly because for the price it was a better option than any dvd player i was looking at.


as for XBL vs PSN. don't be a tard. XBL shatters it and that why i pay 40 bucks a year to play on it don't want your free crappy service id rather pay for the better service with way more features.

I think one reason Sony is paying all these studios to go Blu-ray exclusive is that they know they'll kill the majority of their Blu-ray movie sales once they get a video marketplace set up to compete with the XBOX 360's video marketplace. The only way to really compete is to let people purchase and not just rent movies. Then again, Microsoft will start purchases as soon as Sony does that, so Sony screws Blu-ray either way unless they force HD-DVD out of the market. Informed buyers who have invested in standalone players have been choosing HD-DVD, but the PS3 has done well in acting as a trojan horse for Blu-ray. This is twofold. While HD-DVD has set standards for every player developed on the market, there are no standartds set for Blu-ray. This has led to the PS3 being one of the only Blu-ray players with the proper internet connectivity for the much-needed firmware updates. This will push people to buy PS3 when they're looking for a Blu-ray player. The better format is losing and we should support it until it's no longer available for us. Besides, our players and discs won't stop working just because the other format is declared as the winner. Blu-ray is an incomplete and inconsistent format. Don't give them your money for a standard without standards.

Even this doesnt make me want to buy a PS3

The Sound said...

Too bad that $40 doesn't go to dedicated servers...

Just sayin'.

Depends on the game devs.frontlines got dedicated servers 360 exclusive by the way.We pay for service we can rely on.I cant count how many times i tried using psn with issues.I have had one bad experience with live that was over the holidays and i have been a live member for 5 years.The original ps2 online was swill and so is psn its so un user friendly it disgusts me.When loging into psn it seems a task the whole psn being like a webpage is a joke the 360 os blade system is far superior and easier to navigate.The os desktop on ps3 is unorganized garbage.

The average consumer is statisfied with standard DVDs so Blu Ray will never be a widespread 'standard'.

Its the same as minidisc which Sony created to downsize the cd...did that replace the cd? Nope...
DVDs are here to stay for the foreseeable future after which, to combat piracy, digital downloads will be the norm...music has gone down that path and so will movies.

R.I.P HDDVD