HD DVD is no more

Toshiba has pulled out the plug on HD DVD. The company will scale down production with the aim to finally stop producing HD DVD players and recorders by March 2008. Blu-ray is finally the victor in the high-definition DVD format war.

The company may continue to produce HD DVD drives for notebook PCs, they said.

“While we are disappointed for the company and more importantly, for the consumer, the real mass market opportunity for high definition content remains untapped and Toshiba is both able and determined to use our talent, technology and intellectual property to make digital convergence a reality,” commented Atsutoshi Nishida, CEO of Toshiba.

Toshiba has not commented whether they will move into producing Blu-ray players or recorders.

And that’s it. The format war is over and finally we can all go out and buy a high-def DVD player without making a rather expensive and risky gamble.