Toshiba admits defeat, goes with Blu-ray
By Yuri Kageyama |
August 11, 2009, Tuesday
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HAVING lost the video format war, Toshiba Corp said yesterday it will make Blu-ray disc products and plans to join the once-rival camp, the Blu-ray Disc Association.
The Japanese electronics maker had backed another high-definition video format, the HD-DVD, but seceded defeat last year, saying it will give up making or developing HD-DVD products.
There had been some speculation Toshiba may skip making Blu-ray products and instead try to develop an even more sophisticated video technology.
But Toshiba said it is planning to introduce Blu-ray products such as players and personal computers.
Details were set to be announced later.
"In light of recent growth in digital devices supporting the Blu-ray format, combined with market demand from consumers and retailers alike, Toshiba has decided to join the BDA," it said.
The Blu-ray alliance, backed by Japanese rivals Sony Corp, Panasonic Corp and others, had been more successful in wooing Hollywood studios.
Some kind of decision from Toshiba had been expected ahead of the key year-end shopping season.
The move is reminiscent of Sony's strategy after its Betamax videotape standard lost to Panasonic's VHS in the 1980s. Sony ended up making VHS products.
Apart from home entertainment products, Toshiba is also a large maker of PCs, in which Blu-ray drives are slowly supplanting DVD drives.
Without Blu-ray drives, Toshiba laptops could have lost out to other manufacturers.
The Japanese electronics maker had backed another high-definition video format, the HD-DVD, but seceded defeat last year, saying it will give up making or developing HD-DVD products.
There had been some speculation Toshiba may skip making Blu-ray products and instead try to develop an even more sophisticated video technology.
But Toshiba said it is planning to introduce Blu-ray products such as players and personal computers.
Details were set to be announced later.
"In light of recent growth in digital devices supporting the Blu-ray format, combined with market demand from consumers and retailers alike, Toshiba has decided to join the BDA," it said.
The Blu-ray alliance, backed by Japanese rivals Sony Corp, Panasonic Corp and others, had been more successful in wooing Hollywood studios.
Some kind of decision from Toshiba had been expected ahead of the key year-end shopping season.
The move is reminiscent of Sony's strategy after its Betamax videotape standard lost to Panasonic's VHS in the 1980s. Sony ended up making VHS products.
Apart from home entertainment products, Toshiba is also a large maker of PCs, in which Blu-ray drives are slowly supplanting DVD drives.
Without Blu-ray drives, Toshiba laptops could have lost out to other manufacturers.
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