Reuters is reporting that Toshiba has given up on HD DVD, ending the format war.  An official announcement should be coming soon.  This is very unfortunate news for Toshiba since they are set to lose tons of money in the wake of their defeat.  Technically DVD is still beating Blu-ray, but it’s only a matter of time before more people upgrade to an HDTV and want an HD movie format to go along with it.  I have always preferred HD DVD, but with last week’s announcement that Netflix was going Blu-ray exclusive, they made my decision for me.  The PlayStation 3’s high cost had been attributed to Blu-ray, and if Blu-ray hadn’t won Sony’s system would have been in serious trouble.  Now they are likely to benefit greatly from its inclusion.  Being one of the cheapest Blu-ray players on the market is nice, but in addition the PS3 has many other features making it an attractive purchase for anyone looking to upgrade to an HD movie format.

[Via Reuters]

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Good we can move on and just have one freaking format to deal with.

Fucking Blu-ray.

agreed with DJ

if i hadnt just dropped half a G on a 360 i’d be looking at a ps3 right now. but it’ll have to wait another few months or so i guess

I have both an HD-DVD player and Blu-Ray player but I am glad that the whole format war is over with. HD-DVD had more functionality including online features and Blu-Ray had more storage space. Blu-Ray will be getting the online features and what not sometime later this year according to Sony and of course the PS3 will get the profile 2.0 functionality which is nice. I have 17 Blu-Ray movies right now and I am selling off my HD-DVD stuff pretty cheap. I’m not going to keep it around just for a handful of movies.

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