Timeline: HD DVD vs. Blu-ray Disc
- 1
- 2
- 3
- 4
- < previous
2008
January 4 -- Warner Brothers drops its bombshell: it will stop issuing HD DVD movies in the coming months and rely exclusively on Blu-ray Disc. In response the HD DVD Promotion Group cancels its CES news conference.
January 6 -- Akio Ozaka, head of Toshiba America Consumer Products, says at CES: "We remain firm in the belief that HD DVD is the format best suited to the wants and needs of consumers." In response Sony CEO Howard Stringer, with a grin on his face, says "All of us at Sony are feeling blue today."
January 14 -- Toshiba cuts the price of HD DVD players with the HD-A3 seeing a retail price of US$150.
February 11 -- NetFlix and BestBuy say they will phase out HD DVD.
February 15 -- Wal-Mart, the world's largest retailer, says it will phase out HD DVD by June.
February 16 -- Japanese public broadcaster NHK reports Toshiba has halted production of HD DVD players. Several additional local media reports confirm and The Nikkei business daily says Toshiba has decided to stop developing the format any further.
February 19 -- Toshiba formally announces it will phase out the production of HD DVD players and recorders by the end of March. The format war is over.
- 1
- 2
- 3
- 4
- < previous
- +
CES - Warner's Blu-ray Disc move has industry buzzing 07 January, 2008 08:57:36
The consumer electronics industry is abuzz ahead of CES with the news that Warner Bros has decided to drop HD DVD in favor of Blu-ray Disc.The decision by Warner Bros. to drop HD DVD in favor of Blu-ray Disc for high-definition movies has set the electronics industry abuzz. Announced on the eve of the Consumer Electronics Show, the move put a single question in the minds of thousands of industry-insiders heading to the show in Las Vegas: Could the high-definition format wars be over? - +
Gartner: HD DVD price cuts only prolong agony 29 January, 2008 07:31:04
Gartner predicts that Blu-ray Disc will win consumer market by the end of this year.Price cuts by Toshiba on its HD DVD players in the US earlier this month may prove to be "useless resistance" in the battle against the rival Blu-ray Disc optical disc format, according to Gartner. - +
CES - Warner Bros dumps HD DVD, to go Blu-ray exclusive 07 January, 2008 08:16:59
Warner Bros. has decided to drop HD DVD and exclusively back Blu-ray Disc, it said Friday.Warner Bros., the only major movie studio to release titles on both of the rival high-definition video disc formats, has decided to drop HD DVD and exclusively back Blu-ray Disc, it said Friday. - +
CES - Toshiba defiant on HD DVD: It ain't dead yet 07 January, 2008 07:54:51
Toshiba remained defiant on HD DVD at CES and said the format is a long way from dead.Two days after it lost an important ally in the high-definition format battle, Toshiba put on a defiant face at the Consumer Electronics Show and declared the HD DVD format is a long way from being dead. - +
Samsung's dual-format HD disc player coming in December 28 November, 2007 10:14:21
Samsung will release its dual-format HD DVD and Blu-ray Disc player in mid-December, it said Tuesday.Samsung looks ready to make good on its plan to release a dual-format Blu-ray Disc and HD DVD player in time for the year-end holidays.
Click here for case studies, whitepapers and other useful vendor content 
ARN Panel Sessions: Day 3The last of our panel sessions recorded live at CeBIT 2008. Today, the topic is storage. Data is growing at an enormous rate, so what does the future hold?
Weekly Tech News Update: 21st November 2008Yahoo's CEO says goodbye, Intel introduces a new processor, and robots run wild. All that news and more on this week's World Tech Update
Electronic voting in U.S. electionDoubts about voting machines are lingering in the minds of many Americans as they head to the polls.
When an IT disaster occurs, how handy it would be to push a button and start again as if nothing had happened.
Discover and learn more about CA XOSoft today.
PGP and Ponemon Institute Unveil Inaugural Australian Data Breach Study 2008 20 November, 2008 17:34:00
Symantec Cloud Services Transform Data Centre Operations Through Proactive Management 20 November, 2008 12:06:00
Verizon Business Offers Tips to Building a Successful Unified Communications and Collaboration Plan 20 November, 2008 12:04:00
NetApp Named 2008 Citrix Ready Solution of the Year by Citrix Systems 20 November, 2008 11:33:00
Extreme Networks Ethernet Transport lowers total cost of ownership for carrier metro networks 20 November, 2008 10:21:00
Dataract increases e5 Workflow performance with Microsoft® Windows Server® 2008
Since upgrading to Windows Server 2008 from Windows Server 2003, Dataract have made visible improvements in their workflow calculations and image presentation performance.
Buying Guides
Latest Products
Buying Guides
