Toshiba: "no plans" to adopt Blu-ray

In the Q & A session following Toshiba HD-DVD-dumping case in Japan, Atsutoshi Nishida, President and CEO of Toshiba Corporation has an unpleasant surprise announcement. Although it is still used for the standard DVD, they have "no plan at all at this moment" to take the Blu-ray format. He also said that Tosh has no plans for a next-next-gen format. Maybe they just lick their wounds, to HD downloads reality.

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?

Plextor releases two Blu-ray / HD DVD combo drives

Although we hope that the format war is shuddering at the end, it is probably still wise to hedge your bets just a little - and Plextor has two new SATA Blu-ray / HD-DVD combo drives. The new PX-B920SA writes BD-R at 4x speeds, 16x DVD and CD-R 40x, and read HD-DVD, while the lower end PX-B300SA drop of the BD-R capabilities and writes to DVD and CD . Plextor says both drives will be available at the end of the month, but unfortunately, we have no pricing information.

Read from official site www.plextor-europe.com:
Read - PX-B920SA
Read - PX-B300SA