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2008-02-17 Home Front Economy

Toshiba to exit HD DVD, end format war-NHK

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Posted by Fred 2008-02-17 00:00|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top

#1 You know after they sold US sub secrets to the Soviets I just cant help but smile on my face. It's just too bad that a bunch of consumers ended up wasting money and it delayed the adoptions of BluRay.

Posted by rjschwarz 2008-02-17 01:10|| 2008-02-17 01:10|| Front Page Top

#2 It's also sticking it to MicroBorg which has tied its Red Ring of Death Xbox to HD [and expensive add on] in its war with Sony's PS3 integrated Blu-Ray player.

Posted by Procopius2k 2008-02-17 08:44|| 2008-02-17 08:44|| Front Page Top

#3 Ironically, neither format has much future.

Just today, I was looking at a flash memory advert in the paper. 2GB for $13. A year ago a 2GB thumb drive cost well over $100.

A Blu-Ray disk holds about 50GB of data.

Currently available thumb drives or flash cards include 64GB, which are the new standard. The cards are about 2" by 1" in size. And because no high speed spin is needed, such cards are a lot more durable and take less storage space. The larger size even has room for data redundancy in case of an error.

They are brand new, so still prohibitively expensive. But for how long? And they have much more possibility for data expansion. Maybe 128GB, 256GB, 512GB, a terabyte or more.

Posted by Anonymoose 2008-02-17 10:51|| 2008-02-17 10:51|| Front Page Top

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