So Toshiba is going to gracefully bow out of the format war by killing off HD-DVD. I have to admit I'm shocked that they are going to act so quickly. So now we're stuck with Blu-ray and all of its incomplete standards glory. Of course in the span of one week Toshiba lost the support of Netflix, Best Buy and Walmart. It's bad enough that the studios won't provide content but when people can't even buy your product then you are really screwed.
First here's a good article about why the consumer has really lost on this one. Second, just because the format war is over that doesn't mean you should go buy a Blu-ray player. If you HAVE to buy now then buy a PS3 because it's the same price as the cheapest "standard" player and is the only one that is fully upgradeable. That is really important because as I said before the Blu-ray standard is still being rewritten.
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