HD-DVD R.I.P.
Ding dong, one of the next-gen video formats is dead. A mere month after Warner Bros. announced it was going Blu-ray exclusive, thus giving Sony?s Blu-ray format 70% of all movies, Reuters is reporting that Toshiba will totally halt HD-DVD production next week.
Of course, in this past month, more studios have either gone Blu-Ray exclusive or dropped their HD-DVD exclusivity, consumers have been returned their HD-DVD players bought over the holidays, major stores like Wal-Mart have stopped carrying HD-DVD and basically every movie studio executive and industry analyst has said Blu-ray won the war and that HD-DVD is doomed. And now it?s dead. Dead dead dead.
Goodbye, gentle HD-DVD. You really screwed up the next-generation of video technology, caused regular DVD sales to drop precipitously, and confused a lot of people, and but you will be missed?by the poor bastards who bought HD-DVD players.
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Robert Bricken is one of the original co-founders of the site formerly known as Topless Robot, and its first editor-in-chief, serving from 2008-12. He brought the site to prominence with “nerd news, humor and self-loathing” as its motto, raising it from total internet obscurity to a readership in the millions, with help from his savage “FAQ” movie reviews and Fan Fiction Fridays. Under his tenure Topless Robot was covered by Gawker, Wired, Defamer, New York magazine, ABC News, and others, and his articles have been praised by Roger Ebert, Avengers actor Clark Gregg, comedian and The Daily Show correspondent John Hodgman, the stars of Mystery Science Theater 3000 and Rifftrax, and others. He is currently the managing editor of io9.com. Despite decades as both an amateur and professional nerd, he continues to be completely unprepared for either the zombie apocalypse or the robot uprising.