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Format War Over; Blu-ray Wins

On February 16th, 2008 in Uncategorized -

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Thats it, the format war is finally over. Coming as a hard hit to Toshiba and all of the HD DVD early adopters out there, Toshiba has announced that they are beginning processes to cease support for both HD DVD software and hardware. While this doesn’t really come as a surprise considering all of the support HD DVD was losing (Netflix, Blockbuster etc.) it is sad to see this short lived format go. Now what does this mean for us gamers, in particular, Xbox 360 owners? Well, the PS3 is going to be left untouched, obviously, but this announcement of HD DVD’s death could force Microsoft into releases a Blu-ray add-on (a la HD DVD add-on) or even releasing a console with a built in Blu-ray drive.

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