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More Bad News For Your HD-DVD Player
As we reported from CES, HD-DVD's death knell as a viable high-definition disc format began to ring loudly when Warner Bros., one of the format's largest major supporters, announced that they would move exclusively to Blu-ray in early 2008. Today, Netflix and Best Buy also declared HD-DVD dead to them—the former will completely phase them out of its rental business, and the latter will now exclusively recommend Blu-ray players to its customers.
2.13.2008 at 11:11am - Comment by Merlin696Let’s say inevitably Blue-Ray wins out. The(my) hope is that Toshiba would cut their losses and give/sell the HD License. If that was the case there would be no reason that the companies supporting Blue-Ray couldn’t incorporate the ability to read the HD format on their players. Would it also be possible to send out a DVD to update current readers/consoles to read older HD formats? I am not sure how the diodes work between the two formats but it’s an idea at least. Although the chances of this actually happening are slim to none it sure would be nice to be able to use the HD Disks I currently own.
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