Well, for the most part they did. I don't blame them, but rather than a "soft landing" with Toshiba continuing to make and sell high-end HD DVD players in low volumes, encouraging Paramount and Universal to go non-exclusive rather than BD exclusive, and maybe making use of HD DVD's online downloads capabilities to create an infrastructure where the players were still useful for online content, they pretty much dropped the entire format.
Toshiba lost $1B propping up the format, so as I said I don't blame them. But the argument that they didn't leave us in the cold is not sustainable.
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squiggleslash @ Sep 29th 2008 9:24AM
Well, for the most part they did. I don't blame them, but rather than a "soft landing" with Toshiba continuing to make and sell high-end HD DVD players in low volumes, encouraging Paramount and Universal to go non-exclusive rather than BD exclusive, and maybe making use of HD DVD's online downloads capabilities to create an infrastructure where the players were still useful for online content, they pretty much dropped the entire format.
Toshiba lost $1B propping up the format, so as I said I don't blame them. But the argument that they didn't leave us in the cold is not sustainable.