Blu-ray Disc has won the high definition format war. Toshiba's president, Atsutoshi Nishida, announced February 19th that they will no longer develop, market, or manufacture HD DVD players or recorders. While they'll gradually reduce shipments of hardware, March 31 all sales will come to a halt. They will continue to make DVD players, with no immediate plans to make Blu-ray players. "If we had continued, that would have created problems for consumers, and we simply had no chance to win."
With this announcement Universal, Paramount, and Bandai Visual have switched to Bluray.
However, about Freedom (the only anime title in the US that does not have high def versions in both formats) Bandai Visual released this statement:
"In regards to Toshiba's news, we will continue to release future installments of Freedom on HD DVD/DVD Twin-Disc Format. We do not want to abandon our fans that have purchased Freedom 1-3. Retailers will soon stop carrying Freedom 1-3, but they will be available via our dot-anime.us (http://www.dot-anime.us) website along with the future installments."
Sunday, February 24, 2008
The end of HD DVD
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