I think that Toshiba is simply responding to the bad marketing job the BD team is conducting in making BD mainstream. They are probably agreeing that this technology will not live long enough to make any good bucks off.
When comparing the complete aspects, DVD is not nearly as inferior to Blu-ray as VHS was to DVD so there might not be reason enough to believe that we will have the same takeover process.
Toshiba sees that BD are not trying hard enough lowering prices and releasing new more stable players, that they see a window of opportunity. Maybe...
Also prices of BD-R media and burners are dropping fast so the BD bootleg market could be just around the corner. One more very heavy blow to an already bleeding marketing plan.
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I think that Toshiba is simply responding to the bad marketing job the BD team is conducting in making BD mainstream. They are probably agreeing that this technology will not live long enough to make any good bucks off.
When comparing the complete aspects, DVD is not nearly as inferior to Blu-ray as VHS was to DVD so there might not be reason enough to believe that we will have the same takeover process.
Toshiba sees that BD are not trying hard enough lowering prices and releasing new more stable players, that they see a window of opportunity. Maybe...
Also prices of BD-R media and burners are dropping fast so the BD bootleg market could be just around the corner. One more very heavy blow to an already bleeding marketing plan.
Just my point of view. /Mike