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Microsoft – almost ready with the answer to BluRay?

Microsoft – almost ready with the answer to BluRay?

>From Tweakers.net
We all remember the “death”  of HD DVD of Toshiba and Microsoft…..
It made Blu Ray the big winner……
BUT; as Microsoft was NOT stepping into the Blu-Ray camp AND they where more and more promoting their own Xbox 360 movie channel options….. I came to the simple conclusion that Microsoft is not going to “bet [...]

Toshiba loosing on flash memory – what about HD-DVD?

>from Tweakers.net
Big announcement; Toshiba is making a big loss (first quarter 2008) because of the drop of prices of flash memory.
And why is this news for Sjeltur…??
Because I am wondering how they deal with their information release…..
And how they get to those numbers….
107 million dollars as loss
Because of the drop of prices of the chips
And [...]

Blu-Ray Xbox360 in Autumn?

>from Tweakers.net
Big rumors – based on an article in Economic Daily News (in Taiwan); in autumn 2008 the first Xbox360 with blu-ray players (internal) will be introduced…..
This AFTER the writing about the low sales of blu-ray; even after Toshiba stopped the HD-DVD…..
I am not to sure; still think that Xbox will go for the online [...]

Toshiba stops HD-DVD – Microsoft link to GDC08

>From Tweakers.net
Yep – Toshiba announced that they will stop the HD-DVD. End of March – they will “finally” pull the plug out….
Ah well – the consumers did need a winner…. – now we are going to wait for the price drop of Blu-Ray.
I did expect that Toshiba also would introduce their own Blu-Ray [...]

Microsoft is not ending HD-DVD YET….

>From Lord Nelson
Microsoft is still not announcing the end of the HD-DVD. It is all going to depend on Toshiba…..
Weird uh…. – on the stock market the value of Toshiba is rising….. They loose and uh… win..??