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    HCT's Avatar WTF!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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    [news=http://img351.imageshack.us/img351/6012/blueray9hw.gif] TOKYO, Aug 23 (Reuters) - Groups headed by Toshiba Corp and Sony Corp offering competing technologies for next-generation DVDs have given up efforts to develop a unified format, the Yomiuri newspaper reported on Tuesday.

    For three years, the two groups have pushed to have their respective technology standards adopted to gain dominance in the multibillion-dollar markets for DVD players, PC drives and optical discs.

    Toshiba, along with NEC Corp and Sanyo Electric Co, has been promoting HD DVD, while Sony and Matsushita Electric Industrial Co, the maker of Panasonic brand products, have been developing a technology known as Blu-ray.

    The two groups have held negotiations on unifying their formats to persuade consumers to shift to advanced discs and to promote growth in the industry.

    But negotiations fell through as neither side yielded, and time ran out to develop a format before the launch of new products from both groups, the paper said.

    Officials at Toshiba and Sony were not immediately available for comment.

    Sony's Blu-ray technology is also backed by Dell Inc. and South Korea's Samsung Electronics Co.

    At the core of both formats are blue lasers, which have a shorter wavelength than red lasers used in current DVD equipment, allowing discs to store data at higher densities needed for high-definition movies and television.

    Source: http://today.reuters.com/business/ne...oryID=nT197333[/news]
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    Great.

    It's Betamax and VHS all over again. Will they never learn?

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    The Playstation3 I can understand but the rest I'll wait a year for the prices to come down and for the smoke to clear.

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    I won't buy either until the prices drop and a clear winner emerges between the two, except perhaps a PS3.

    @Barbarossa - you read my mind.

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    peat moss's Avatar Software Farmer BT Rep: +15BT Rep +15BT Rep +15
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    I thought this was funny :

    Sony and Toshiba star in remake of the Betamax v VHS epic

    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/mai...24/ixcity.html


    Because we heard it here first .


    Update : If I were a betting man I'd pick Blu -ray .


    http://www.redherring.com/Article.as...g+for+Standard
    Last edited by peat moss; 08-25-2005 at 02:10 AM.

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