Officially no decision has been made by Toshiba whether to drop its HD-DVD hi-definition format. The deathwatch, however, has begun.
Sony’s Betamax died a slow death a generation ago. Now its Toshiba’s HD-DVD that is on the wrong side of the 21st century format war.
Toshiba is widely expected to pull the plug on its HD DVD format sometime in the coming weeks, reliable industry sources say, after a rash of retail defections that followed Warner Home Video's announcement in early January that it would support only the rival Blu-ray Disc format after May.
Netflix is just another to defect to the Blu-ray format.
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