Press Conference - Toshiba - HD DVD - January 7, 2008

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[raydenk36]

yeah!!!

bring back HD-DVD!!

[dopehousex3]

HD DVD and Blu Ray are both Great I just wish there was only one format.

[tigerwhite007]

HD DVD has a future as the next disc format for Nintendo Wii U.... they are using a slightly modified HD-DVD drive for the Wii U... everyone says its a blu-ray drive... but sony and pioneer wouldn't want Nintendo using a reverse engineered version of their blu-ray format... so Toshiba's left over HD-DVD format still gets a decent enough use in Nintendo's next gen system...after all they used a slightly modified dvd format for gamecube and Wii... makes sense to use HD-DVD for Wii U

[tigerwhite007]

HD-DVD failed for the following reasons.

1. Low capacity 15GB & 30GB is not enough of a jump for consumers

2. No Burners and recordable media on the market for consumers to take advantage of, tons of blu-ray burners, single and dual layer discs were available from the competition

3. No scratch resistant coatings for added protection of consumer disc purchases

4. Limited Picture and sound bit rates due to low capacity means less quality

5. Bad red colour makes the format look old and dated

[jordanthewizard]

Of course they would say that their product was the best choice.

[wow1371]

did Microsoft send some of its people to Toshiba just to teach them how they should lie and say we are the only and the best to deliver this or that?

I mean this reminds me Kinect E3 presentation.

This is Kinect and it is literally another PSEYE but we won't tell you that, we will use 500 million dollars to tell you you are wrong.

[Turkish2023]

Bluray is the best, the inferior format aka hddvd failed.

[Riddler95]

How was it the best format?

The picture & sound quality was identical to Blu-Ray, and it could only hold 30GB max while Blu-Ray can hold 50GB max?

[yozamier54]

@niyooh HD-DVD is dead.

[blackbel4T]

I find her speech of desperation very amusing.

[Audioquest56]

The best format lost.

[dreamcast98]

Foolish movie companies jumping on to the Blu Ray ship. HD DVD was a cheaper medium and movies look just as good if not better. The German release of Terminator 2 is one of the best looking.

Toshiba had many other plans for HD DVDs future too which was a shame.

DVD upscaling is excellent on these players too. I luckily own a XE-1 and the build quality is the best ive seen on any electrical product.

Region free DVDs can now be played, but would be great to see Divx and more formats unlocked