HD-DVD out for the Count?

I promised myself, I said Jimmy don't write about the Hi-Def battle, it's boring, nothing ever changes in the putrid stalemate we have. Well in case you have not heard something did change, in like a totally major way (apolagies for dude language).

Three Speech has nice little write up about the events of the past week. To summarise if you can't be arsed to read it for yourself, Warner Bros will only release their stuff on BlueRay which then gives 70% of the Hi-Def market over to BlueRay, ouch! After that news, I hear that Toshiba, the main backer of HD-DVD, cut the price of their players by 50%, sounds a bit desperate don't ya think.

I hope BlueRay finish them off, you tried saying HD-DVD after a few beers, HDDDD, HDVDVD, HDUD, HDUVUD, just not going to happen.

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