Official: HD DVD dead and buried, format war is over

It's official. Toshiba has just made a statement saying, "it will no longer develop, produce and commercialize HD DVD players and recorders." Cessation of the actor and recorders are targeted for March 2008. Volume production of HD DVD for PC disk drives and games end in the same period. However, Atsutoshi Nishida, President and CEO of Toshiba Corporation does say that Toshiba, "continue to evaluate the position of laptops with integrated HD DVD." Okay, that's it, the war is over format, Blu-ray won. press release after the break.

Update: In addition to stating "no plan" to go Blu-ray during the Q & A, committed Toshiba HD DVD for the storage of record for those with HD DVD recorders. They will be sold online. As for future versions HD DVD, Mr. Nishida could not say, "it's not our business, we can not predict their business." Oh really? Is the lack of new titles on a platform death really so difficult to predict?