HDscape Exchanges HD DVDs with Blu-Ray
For those of you not so much grieving the loss of the HD DVD format as you are grieving the loss of your suddenly defunct HD DVD collection, there’s some good news for you. At least, if you bought your movie from HDScape.
For a limited time only, the movie studio is allowing buyers to exchange their HD DVD titles for the same title in the Blu-ray format for $11.95 plus $.99 for shipping and handling — which also happens to be $13 more than you ever wanted to spend on a dead format.
HD-DVD Officially Dead
That’s all, folks. As more and more companies have either marginalized or dropped Toshiba’s HD DVD player, we and the rest of the world called for Toshiba to admit defeat and let it die — but the company bravely marched on. Until now.
Toshiba Corp. President Atsutoshi Nishida announced that Toshiba would be officially dropping the format — crowning the Blu-Ray king of High-Definition Video. How did Nishida make the announcement? Like every good Japanese male — proudly and with much honor.
Toshiba’s HD DVD Format To Be Pulled?
We’ve been covering the HD DVD/Blu-Ray battle for the last few weeks now, with Sony delivering a few key blows to Toshiba’s baby, the HD DVD. We also may have, in passing, made a few jokes about Toshiba pulling the plug and, you know, killing aforementioned baby.
So far, Toshiba hasn’t listened and kept on fighting vehemently — however, rumors are coming from someone close to the HD DVD faction at Toshiba says the company is expecting to let the HD DVD die in a few weeks.
Well, now that it may be real, it’s just not funny anymore.
Best Buy, Netflix Drop HD-DVD
Toshiba Puts HD-DVD Drives in All Laptops
Toshiba has announced that it will ship HD DVD drives in all of its laptops starting in 2008, according to the senior vice president and head of the “never give-up” division. The company has been losing the format fight against Blu-Ray recently, with several companies dropping HD DVD completely and committing fully to Blu-Ray.
Still, the new move is a good one by Toshiba — one of the bigger laptop retailers, it could even get them back in the Blu-Ray race, which is great news for all of us really wish they’d pick a damn format already.
LG’s Multi Hi-Def DVD player plays Blu-Ray, HD-DVD, Human Soul
Do you have your aneurysm-preventing high price inhaler ready? Good — because LG’s Blu-Ray/HD DVD combo player is roughly as expensive as it is cool — so, it says quite a bit about the player when you find out it costs $1,199.
We’ll give you a moment to breath.
Inventors Create All-Playing DVD, Work On All-Knowing DVD
A patent has been filed for a new piece of technology that would allow companies to pack three different DVD formats into one, shiny, easily distributed disc. The technology, created by three Warner Bros. employees — Wayne M. Smith, Alan Bell, and Lewis S. Ostrover — is a godsend for Hollywood and its various companies, who have recently expressed concern at the fact that there will be three different types of DVD in the near future — regular DVDs, Blu-Ray, and HD-DVD. The companies fear the three varying types of DVD will not only cost them much more money (as they have to release their films in three formats, instead of one) — but will also confuse consumers to such a degree that it would send them into a mad fit of DVD eating and smashing.
Recordable HD-DVDs Announced, World Achieves Bliss
Imation Corp announced today the availability of its first recordable HD DVD media — providing three times the storage capacity of regular DVDs and four times the DVDiness. Specifically geared for businesses (though, we don’t think Imation will mind regular consumer business too much), the HD DVDs provide companies with critical storage space — allowing them to fill their fancy new HD DVDs with precious loads of accounting gaffs.
Toshiba HD-DVD Microsite and more
Toshiba in its effort to start promoting its line of HD-DVD players as soon as possible — to get the early to market advantage has announced that they will be aggressively touring over 40 cities across America to promote their new gear.
