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February 18, 2008

HD-DVD Lived a Short Life

Blu-Ray Wins over HD-DVD. One of the frustrations for legitimate movie buying consumers, “Which do I get, Blu-Ray or HD-DVD?” Despite the familiar “DVD” acronym, Toshiba’s HD-DVD will be officially replaced with the growing Sony Blu-Ray format.

HD-DVD started out to address the need to store more data on a disc. It emerged when Sony deployed a new format with a blue laser (shorter wavelength), but it required new hardware. During the format war, the HD-DVD decryption key was posted on Digg, resulting in the claims for “uncrackable DRM” to be proven false. Since then, HD-DVD lost a lot of momentum in favor of Sony’s Blu-Ray format.

There has been a lot of news about HD-DVD and Blu-Ray. Basically, consider HD-DVD obsolete. Here are some useful news articles related recently:

  • Blu-ray Xbox 360 Planned By Microsoft
  • Toshiba shares surge as company studies future of HD-DVD format
  • Netflix picks Blu-ray, good luck renting an HD DVD soon
  • HD-DVD key fiasco is an example of 21st century digital revolt
  • Toshiba expected to announce death of HD DVD tomorrow
  • Warner Brothers Goes Blu-Ray Exclusive!

Thankfully, I didn’t get a HD-DVD player. Good call on that. 😉

Last modified: February 18, 2008

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