Sony and Toshiba end talks on HD-DVD, Blu-Ray unification

Although everyone pretty much knew it anyways, all hope for a unified successor to the DVD is now
officially over. Toshiba has announced yestserday that it has ended its talks with Sony on trying to unify their two formats – HD-DVD and Blu-Ray, respectively – into one format so that the market would not be crowded with multiple, very similar formats. As it stands, half the movie studios and Microsoft side with HD-DVD (the Xbox 360 will be able to upgrade to the HD-DVD, probably just to spite Sony's Blu-Ray), and the other half side with Sony's technology (which will be featured in the PlayStation 3).

This is sad news for Toshiba, whose support is waning in the industry; then again, it is just an official announcement, and we have all kind of figured this was going to happen for awhile now, anyways.

[via 1up]