Toshiba suggests end of DVD war is near.

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Tadashi Okamura, Toshiba's president, said he will continue his
efforts to reach an agreement with Sony, and all other companies
involved, to create a unified next-generation DVD format...

Tadashi Okamura, Toshiba's president, said he will continue his
efforts to reach an agreement with Sony, and all other companies
involved, to create a unified next-generation DVD format. A solution
to unify the Blu-Ray and HD-DVD formats is said to be near. Last month
Toshiba and Sony reached final stages of the negotiations, but they
were postponed as Toshiba stated the superiority of Blu-ray hasn't
been proven yet. Okamura said the structure of the next-generation DVD
format for video discs has to be determined according to interests of
users, rather as the result of negotiations between two companies.
Sony's main ally, Matsushita, recently stated it will not give up on
the idea of backing Blu-ray and Sony already decided to use Blu-ray
for its PlayStation 3 console. Recently TDK released a prototype of a
100GB Blu-ray disc, while HD-DVD can only hold 45GB.






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> http://www.p2preactor.com/article102...-suggests.html
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> Tadashi Okamura, Toshiba's president, said he will continue his
> efforts to reach an agreement with Sony, and all other companies
> involved, to create a unified next-generation DVD format...
>
> Tadashi Okamura, Toshiba's president, said he will continue his
> efforts to reach an agreement with Sony, and all other companies
> involved, to create a unified next-generation DVD format. A solution
> to unify the Blu-Ray and HD-DVD formats is said to be near. Last month
> Toshiba and Sony reached final stages of the negotiations, but they
> were postponed as Toshiba stated the superiority of Blu-ray hasn't
> been proven yet. Okamura said the structure of the next-generation DVD
> format for video discs has to be determined according to interests of
> users, rather as the result of negotiations between two companies.
> Sony's main ally, Matsushita, recently stated it will not give up on
> the idea of backing Blu-ray and Sony already decided to use Blu-ray
> for its PlayStation 3 console. Recently TDK released a prototype of a
> 100GB Blu-ray disc, while HD-DVD can only hold 45GB.

Begun the DVD war has...........Sincerely Yoda

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