The Gadget Monkey

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6 May 2008

Cheap HD-DVD

With the sharp exit from the next gen storage race of Toshiba, you would be forgiven for thinking that HD-DVD is dead and buried.
While it will likely go the way of Mini-Disc, it isn’t there yet - XBox 360 HD-DVD devices are selling for under 10 euros in Ireland, and with a reduction in […]

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3 March 2008

Consequences of HD-DVD losing to Blu-Ray

Toshiba’s announcement that they would stop the development of HD-DVD discs and players signalled the end of the high definition optical disc format war, and handed victory to the Sony consortium.
However with the issue of Blu-Ray’s reliability with PCs still at large, don’t expect Blu-Ray to become de facto; don’t even expect this particular war […]

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