]Rumors are flying today that Toshiba may abandon it’s HD-DVD dreams and that of their outspoken owners. The Hollywoood Reporter, if you can’t trust them – then who?, says Toshiba will make an announcement inside of two weeks that it is over. The white flag will go up, the war over.

Best Buy stores have begun a new promo which offers a free HD-DVD player with the purchase of an audio system. According to their February 10, 2008 circular, any customer who buys the $899 Yamaha/Klipsch audio package will receive a free Toshiba HD-A3 HD DVD player. They are also offering a buy one get one more »

Toshiba sent out this announcement today, I only wish I was making this up. “Mass Market Acceptance Confirms that HD DVD is the Consumer’s Choice for Next Generation High Def Entertainment” and it is dated today. The release cites strong Q4 sales and announces a beefed up marketing buy in the coming months.

It is almost funny. Any topic we’ve touched here at Gadgetell that even remotely took a side in the Blu-ray/HD-DVD format war (and yes it is a war, one will win, one will die -like a Mel Gibson movie) brings out the other teams haters in our comments. But here, the media has declared the winner and I believe most people would argue Warner Bros. leaving the HD-DVD camp was the straw that broke the proverbial camel’s back. But is Toshiba listening?

This may be the definite death of the HD DVD format. Financial Times is reporting that Paramount may switch over to Blu-ray thanks to a clause in their contract with HD DVD that states that they will be able to make this move if and when Warner Bros. goes exclusively with Blu-ray, which is now more »

It has been rumored for the last couple of weeks but now its official: Warner Bros., the only movie studio that until now was releasing movies in both formats, has decided to go exclusively with Blu-ray, starting in May of this year. This means that the score is now 6 for Blu-ray (Sony, MGM, Disney, more »

10 layer HD media? Yes ladies and gentlemen, we have it, and we owe it all to Ritek. Available in both HD-DVD and Blu-Ray flavours, these delicious discs offer up to 250GB of storage… Not bad a for a few inches of… well… whatever these new fangled discs are constructed out of. Who knows… perhaps more »