Toshiba Delays HD DVD
September 29, 2005
Tokyo, JP - Reuters Tokyo reported that Japan's Toshiba Corp. said on Wednesday it is delaying until February or March its release of HD DVD players in the US. The company had previously announced that HD DVD players would be on the shelves in the US for Christmas.
Sony has stated that their Blu-ray disc will first appear this spring in the new Sony Playstation. Several Hollywood movie studios have announced their plans to release movies in Blu-ray, and Matsushita Electric Industrial, the parent company of Panasonic, previously announced they were building factories to produce Blu-ray discs.
Toshiba, NEC, and Sanyo have been the principal backers of HD DVD, and earlier this week, Microsoft and Intel announced their plans to support the HD DVD format. They cited the ease for consumers to transfer HD DVD movies to their hard drives.
"We have been discussing with content holders the most effective way to launch in the U.S. market, and it will probably be in February or March," Toshiba Corporate Senior Vice President Yoshihide Fujii told a news conference. The company said it would start production in December and would have a wide release of HD DVD players in the US in early 2006. Toshiba said it still plans to introduce HD DVD players in the Japanese market by the year-end.
For the WEVA Industry News story that first reported on the possibility of Toshiba delaying HD DVD go to:
Toshiba May Delay Release of HD DVD
WEVA Industry News first reported on Blu-ray in 2003 with this story:
Blu-Ray DVD Recorder Unveiled
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