Though some iffy poll
results & a Chinese
spinoff may have you thinking HD DVD is just on the cusp of a comeback, Toshiba president
Atsutoshi Nishida suggested today that the company might join the rest of the consumer electronics community and support Blu-ray. In the midst of
defeat last year he said it had "
no plans" to switch sides, focusing on flash memory and DVD upscaling tech instead, but after a
few billion in losses that might have changed, as the prez indicated just losing the format war wasn't enough reason to skip out on the Blu-ray market and that Toshiba "would like to keep our options open." Besides enjoying the good news that our exes have found gainful employment as executive speechwriters, we'll be keeping an eye out for another
Cell-based Blu-ray player to join the PS3, if not tomorrow, someday.
In a recent Forbes article about the big turn around at Sony, we found the moves it took to ensure Blu-ray would win, to be the most interesting. According to the article, the Paramount move (understandably) had the BDA scrambling, which was evidently enough of a stressor to motivate all the divisions of Sony to work together towards a common goal. Among other things, the gaming division dropped the price of the PS3 and the movie studio had to give away Blu-ray movies with the PS3. Overall there's nothing new in the article if you've been 
