Toshiba Officially Pulls HD DVD

After a long war between HD DVD and blu-ray, Toshiba announced today that it will no longer be producing HD DVD players. Blu-ray has won. The writing has been on the wall for awhile. Sony's PS3 gave blu-ray a jump and in the last few months more indications of which format was going to be the winner came about. In early January Warner Home video, which had up to that time released both HD DVD and blu-ray, switched to blu-ray only, which meant that HD DVD was left with only 2 of the 6 major studios.

Warner's announcment was shortly followed by rumors that Paramount was going to do the same. Then in the last couple of weeks major U.S. retailers, including Wal-Mart and Best Buy, together with Netflix and others, announced plans to support blu-ray. Sonic had previously dropped support for HD DVD authoring.For those watching this it became apparent it was not a matter of if HD DVD was going to be dropped, just a matter of when. Rumors grew in the last few days and today Toshiba made it official.

Today Toshiba made it official with this.