it's really over! HD-DVD sayonara!

Doug Okamoto · March 31st, 2008, 03:44 PM

Giroud and Harrison I think you are both right! There will always be those people that will need to have a physical thing to hold that is precious to them and there will always be those people that don't care about that. So I predict that both flash memory and Internet downloads will be the next wave. Bandwidth is the issue with these - but that will be solved sooner than later.

As far as standards though, BD has won this round. HD-DVD will not come back Toshiba has clearly stated that. They are not doing any development or production on any HD-DVD equipment or discs. The industry will not pick it up if no leader runs with it.

Brian Standing · March 31st, 2008, 04:03 PM

Toshiba should open up the HD-DVD spec to the open source community. THAT would be very interesting, indeed!

Doug Okamoto · March 31st, 2008, 04:19 PM

But what would they get for opening up the spec? They had spent alot of resources to develop HD-DVD, business wise it's better to keep that stuff secret.

Giroud Francois · March 31st, 2008, 05:11 PM

and you do not need opened specs, you need plants to build burners,players, and discs....

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March 31st, 2008, 03:44 PM	#106
Doug Okamoto Regular Crew Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Bellevue, Washington Posts: 145	Giroud and Harrison I think you are both right! There will always be those people that will need to have a physical thing to hold that is precious to them and there will always be those people that don't care about that. So I predict that both flash memory and Internet downloads will be the next wave. Bandwidth is the issue with these - but that will be solved sooner than later. As far as standards though, BD has won this round. HD-DVD will not come back Toshiba has clearly stated that. They are not doing any development or production on any HD-DVD equipment or discs. The industry will not pick it up if no leader runs with it.

March 31st, 2008, 04:19 PM	#108
Doug Okamoto Regular Crew Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Bellevue, Washington Posts: 145	But what would they get for opening up the spec? They had spent alot of resources to develop HD-DVD, business wise it's better to keep that stuff secret.

March 31st, 2008, 05:11 PM	#109
Giroud Francois Inner Circle Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: switzerland Posts: 2,133	and you do not need opened specs, you need plants to build burners,players, and discs....