No More HD-DVD. Blast…

It appears Murphy’s Law is upheld once more.  Not more than six months after I finally gave in to my materialistic desires and bought an HD-DVD player, this happens:

Toshiba announced this week that it will cease production of all HD-DVD discs and players by the end of March, effectively yielding the market to Sony’s Blu-Ray Disc format.

The format war between the two companies has waged for nearly three years, often being compared to the battle between VHS and Betamax during the 1980s.

According to an article in The New York Times, Toshiba is expected to suffer hundreds of millions of dollars in losses from the discontinuation of HD-DVD and all things related.

Personally, I managed to accumulate five films and two seasons of popular television series on HD-DVD before this lovely news broke.  I still plan to watch them all.  A lot.  Call me stubborn, but I’m going to get my money’s worth.