Comments on: Toshiba Finally, Inevitably, Does Blu-Ray

By: Toshiba’s Qosmio Gets Blu-Ray | Technologizer

Toshiba’s Qosmio Gets Blu-Ray | Technologizer — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 23:30:58 +0000

[...] of a Blu-Ray drive or burner–Toshiba’s first. (The one-time proponent of HD-DVD formally announced it was getting into the Blu-Ray game last month.) The X500 also has an Intel Core i7 processor, 6GB of DDR3 RAM, Nvidia GeForce GTS 250 [...]

By: Seumas

Seumas — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 01:05:06 +0000

I suppose Apple is hedging their bets on digital-only distribution, but I sure wouldn’t mind if my MBP had a nice bluray drive in it.

By: Tech

Tech — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 23:37:00 +0000

Toshiba had no other choice with the collapse of their HD DVD format.

By: Disputatore

Disputatore — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 17:04:26 +0000

Sorry, forgot to click on the notify box. Carry on

By: Disputatore

Disputatore — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 17:00:20 +0000

Agreed that a lot of money could have been saved. But, isn’t that the way of business? Two competitor groups find a similar solution after having already invested high quantities of money to get there. Is it really to be expected that one of the groups will do an objective assessment and say “Ok, we admit their solution is much better than ours. We’ll just ditch ours and pay the other group the royalties for using their standard”. No way! Even because history tells us that not always the best format wins, as was proven by the Betamax vs VHS format war. So, even though I didn’t really follow all the developments which led to the demise of HD-DVD, it seems to me that stating after the fact that the outcome was obvious is perhaps not really fair. Perhaps Toshiba and the rest of the HD-DVD consortium had reasonable expectations that they could market their way over BluRay. By the way, this Saturday’s Euro-lotto numbers were 10 20 22 24 31 + 2 7. Man, could they be any more obvious? Why didn’t I play with those?