[Military family member]

This is a victory for my hometown, which is home to the largest CD/Blu-Ray factory in the world. Word is SOny is planning on hiring hundreds of new employees.

[Zuben Elgenubi]

I’m off the hook. I didn’t select the “Betamax” this time.

[NavVet]

Women and minorities hardest hit.

[mmichaels1970]

Good news for this future PS3 owner.

[Hazcat]

Can somebady ‘slaine this to me?

I understand the two format battle but what exactly is going to be affected?

I have a dvd player and dvd extrnal drives for my pc.

Does this affect them or is this only for when I go buy a new dvd palyer for HD format?

[DoughtyOne]

Bought a Blue-Ray player around October of 2007. It seemd things were headed this way by then.

I want a Blue-Ray recorder NOW! LOL

[Digital Sniper]

I've been sidelining our high-definition DVD purchases until the whole Blu-Ray vs. HD-DVD brouhaha was settled. Now time will tell whether we're stuck with a VHS or Beta winner.

[Pontiac]

PING

[Richard Kimball]

Cue Jackson Browne "Make room for my 45s along beside your 78s"

I'll still hold off a little longer for the price to drop more, and may not jump at all if they don't come off that $40 per movie for a Blu-Ray. I'm sure it will come down, though.

[untrained skeptic]

Congratulations to your hometown.

Blu-Ray is the superior technology, at least if they have been able to increase yields on disk manufacturing which I believe had been considerably lower than for HD DVD disks at one time.

I'm still a bit surprised that HD DVD is just going away. I would have expected players that played both formats would have become common first and then have the one format die out.

I guess that implementing both in the same player was more difficult than I thought it would be.

[listenhillary]

What is your hometown?

[ExSoldier]

I don't get it. What's the difference?

My wife and I got a DVD recorder/player a few months ago (it's yet to be actually USED even once) so what does this mean for us? Should we dump it?

[comebacknewt]

Final nail in the coffin I would think.

[HamiltonJay]

Toshiba Corp. President Atsutoshi Nishida said he wanted to avoid confusion among consumers.

After making sure to keep them confused for 2 years with a technology that was DOA from day one..... How do these idiots get away with saying sunch nonsense with a straight face?

[Publius6961]

I'm curious now.
Do Blu-Ray players also play existing DVDs?

Or do new purchasers plan to replace all of those dozens (hundreds) of potential coasters?

[SunkenCiv]

Too bad I gave up cable and going to the movies.

[rbosque]

Great. I’m still waiting for the prices to come down.