Posted by Neill Massello on 01/08/08 21:08

Eddie G <egoldberg@amh.org> wrote:

> I never read/trust ANYTHING from theinquirer.net although I may read
> it for a good laugh.

Except that in this case The Inquirer is quoting Financial Times, as is
Reuters.

The interesting question is why Warner switched and why now. My guess is
that they looked at holiday and post-holiday sales figures and saw that
Toshiba's player price offensive had failed to ignite HD DVD disc sales.
At best, the format war would continue. That would be bad for the
industry as a whole but especially for HD DVD, whose main advantage
(cost) would be compressed to irrelevance as the technology on both
sides matured.

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