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the war format between HDDVD and BLURAY is over, what had microsoft to do with it?

No more HD-DVD. And I must say that was one of the better news to come out recently in HD arena. I never liked HD-DVD as you may have noticed from my other article on yet another HD format.

I hear from handful of people that hd-dvd is or was better than blu-ray. I don't believe it. I saw both and I was underimpressed by Toshiba's technology. The only thing that Toshiba had going for them was cheaper cost of production. I studied both HD-DVD and blu-ray technology more than a year ago and I formed my opinion based on both the specs and actual visual quality. I even wrote about 3 months before this about the war being over. It took Toshiba a quarter to realize it.

Would Toshiba's HD-DVD format survive if Microsoft did not publicly support it? If you remember Microsoft said it was going to ship X-BOX with HDDVD. My feeling is that until that announcement no one discussed the fact that there is no traction behind HD-DVD technology. After Microsoft announcement we saw flurry of news releases and opinions and one singular thing that emerged from all that was that it was Microsoft versus the rest of the world. Toshiba got completely drowned out of the picture. I'm not sure whether Microsoft directly contributed to demise of HD-DVD format but from where I was standing - I thought it at least helped to accelerate the wars.

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If you remember early DVD burners you may recall that there were two competing formats, the DVD-R/DVD-RW and DVD+R/DVD+RW. Natural course merged these two technologies and modern burners could care less which disk you put in. For a while this seemed like a promissing path for HDDVD technology. The convergence started to happen with LG dual format drives. The difference between DVD-R and DVD+R technologies was that DVD+R generally played on older players whereas DVD-R was the first in business. They were both entrenched and stayed around. HD-DVD was cheaper and Blu-Ray was more advanced and offered more storage. My belief is that they could have peacefully coexist. The problem was that Toshiba took stance - either you're with us or you are our enemies. And they got Microsoft behind them (and I might add - that type of posturing is very familiar for Microsoft camp and they embraced it.)

The future of technology is not in excluding and closed technologies but in developed standards. The rise of Linux based operating systems as well as UNIX based (such as Mac OS X) in recent years is not attibuted to monopolistic grip but to openness. It's hard to compete with free yet increasingly larger number of Windows users choose alternative, open browsers. By trying to bully the market, Toshiba ended up finding itself on the margins of history of HD format.