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Stop the press! Microsoft Pulls Plug on HD DVD Players

Steven Parker   via Associated Press on 25 February 2008 - 11:46 · 13 comments & 11664 views

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Captain obvious alert!

Microsoft Corp. said it will stop making HD DVD players for its Xbox 360 video game system after Toshiba Corp. ceded the high-definition video format battle to Sony Corp.'s Blu-ray.

Microsoft said Saturday it would continue to provide standard warranty support for its HD DVD players. Toshiba President Atsutoshi Nishida last week estimated about 300,000 people own the Microsoft video player, sold as a separate $130 add-on for the Xbox 360.

"HD DVD is one of the several ways we offer a high definition experience to consumers and we will continue to give consumers the choice to enjoy digital distribution of high definition movies and TV shows directly to their living room, along with playback of the DVD movies they already own," Blair Westlake, a corporate vice president of Microsoft's media and entertainment group, said in a written statement.

And here's me thinking that Toshiba discontinuing HD-DVD wouldn't affect the XBOX

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(3 replies) #1 +Dakkaroth on 25 Feb 2008 - 13:13
Next week: New Bluray player for the 360!
#1.1 Raa on 25 Feb 2008 - 13:52
Source?

And yes, I got the joke

Last edited by Raa on 25 Feb 2008 - 14:27
#1.2 Tager on 25 Feb 2008 - 14:12
(Raa said @ #1.1)
Source?

didn't you get the joke?
#1.3 toadeater on 26 Feb 2008 - 00:41
(Dakkaroth said @ #1)
Next week: New Bluray player for the 360!


Can Sony withhold the license from MS to produce Blu-Ray players? Do you even need a license to produce Blu-Ray players? This could be a major coup for Sony.

(Disclaimer: I would like to see both the Xbox 360 and PS3 destroyed, in case you are wondering whose side I'm on. I'm on the PC gaming side. The Wii doesn't bother me, since it's doing its own thing.)
(1 reply) #2 [DGS] on 25 Feb 2008 - 14:18
The source is displayed on the top

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#2.1 kravex on 25 Feb 2008 - 14:46
[DGS
said,#2]The source is displayed on the top

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You really didn't get the joke
#3 P1R4T3 on 25 Feb 2008 - 16:08
Where's the source for the joke?
(1 reply) #4 _dandy_ on 25 Feb 2008 - 16:11
> And here's me thinking that Toshiba discontinuing HD-DVD wouldn't affect the XBOX

Given that the HD-DVD drive isn't needed to play any game, it doesn't.

What was the drive's purpose other than to play HD-DVDs?
#4.1 Danrarbc on 25 Feb 2008 - 19:05
(_dandy_ said @ #4)
> And here's me thinking that Toshiba discontinuing HD-DVD wouldn't affect the XBOX

Given that the HD-DVD drive isn't needed to play any game, it doesn't.

What was the drive's purpose other than to play HD-DVDs?

Not to mention who do you think makes the actual drive inside that pretty white case?

TOSHIBA
#5 virtorio on 25 Feb 2008 - 22:46
Unfortunately I'm one of those 300,000.

Yay I’m a statistic.
#6 RevitXman on 25 Feb 2008 - 22:49
I own two of them. One for my PC and one for my 360
#7 C_Guy on 10 Mar 2008 - 21:30
Replacing HD DVD with Blu-Ray..... what a sad, sad day for hi-def. The winner loses and the loser wins.
#8 Tzimisce on 27 Mar 2008 - 20:52
yeah, the same thing happened when VHS became the big player for HOW MANY YEARS? Sometimes we get screwed.

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