Toshiba cleverly positioned its HD DVD hara-kiri as doing a favor for consumers.
“We concluded that a swift decision would be best,” Toshiba Corp. President Atsutoshi Nishida said, claiming that he wanted to avoid confusion among consumers.
Others might call it “saving face.” More pertinently, Toshiba’s departure from…
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The long and tedious HD format war is finally over, and Blu-ray has emerged victorious. And just like that, Toshiba is set to cease production of its HD DVD players by the end of March. At PC Magazine we’ve been following the Blu-ray vs. HD DVD battle from…
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