Posted by Alpha on 09/29/05 21:34

"Rich" <none@none.com> wrote in message
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> Sony continues DVD battle with Toshiba
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> The beginning of the end of the global DVD war may be looming, but
> Sony is far from conceding defeat. What's more, its business allies
> have remained loyal to the Japanese electronics giant despite some
> industry analysts expecting Sony will have to retreat from the market
> in the longer term.
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> Earlier this week computer software behemoth Microsoft and
> semiconductor giant Intel announced they would be complying with the
> HD DVD format that has been developed by rival electronics group
> Toshiba.
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> Toshiba and Sony have been competing against one another to come up
> with the next-generation DVD that would bolster not only the memory
> capacity of audiovisual discs, but also enhance their sound and video
> quality. Until this summer many industry analysts had hoped that the
> two companies would work together to come up with a common standard,
> but such expectations were quashed by August when Toshiba declared it
> would continue to develop its HD DVDs, while Sony said it would keep
> to its Blu-ray discs.
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> Neither company has yet launched its respective product, which has
> kept consumers from buying new DVD players as they await which company
> will ultimately win the bigger market share in a battle that echoes
> the videotape wars of the early 1980s between Betamax and VHS. Toshiba
> has announced that its high-definition DVD should be on the market by
> the end of this year, and Sony is likely to launch its product by next
> spring.

HD DVD just admitted it will not launch until late Feb. or early March 2006.

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