{"id":197284,"date":"2008-02-17T18:19:00","date_gmt":"2008-02-17T23:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/02\/17\/toshiba-throwing-in-towel-in-format-wars\/"},"modified":"2008-02-17T18:19:00","modified_gmt":"2008-02-17T23:19:00","slug":"toshiba-throwing-in-towel-in-format-wars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/02\/17\/toshiba-throwing-in-towel-in-format-wars\/","title":{"rendered":"Toshiba Throwing In Towel in Format Wars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, it looks like the nail in the coffin of <a href=\"http:\/\/40yrs.blogspot.com\/2008\/01\/matthew-saroffs-hall-of-failed.html\">my prediction regarding the format wars<\/a> (see also <a href=\"http:\/\/40yrs.blogspot.com\/2007\/10\/there-may-be-no-winner-in-hd-dvdblu-ray.html\">here<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/40yrs.blogspot.com\/2007\/06\/blockbuster-expands-blu-ray-rentals-jun.html\">here<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/40yrs.blogspot.com\/2007\/06\/hp-ships-hybrid-blu-rayhd-dvd-drives.html\">here<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/40yrs.blogspot.com\/2007\/08\/blu.html\">here<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/40yrs.blogspot.com\/2007\/08\/more-on-hd-dvdblu-ray-fight.html\">here<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/40yrs.blogspot.com\/2008\/01\/warner-brothers-drops-hd-dvd.html\">here<\/a>), has been driven, we have reports that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/companyNewsAndPR\/idUSL1627196120080216\">Toshiba will be ending production of HD-DVD players<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>For my next prediction, George W. Bush will <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">not<\/span> be impeached.<\/p>\n<p>If only my predilection towards erroneous prognostication worked that way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, it looks like the nail in the coffin of my prediction regarding the format wars (see also here, here, here, here, here, and here), has been driven, we have reports that Toshiba will be ending production of HD-DVD players. For my next prediction, George W. Bush will not be impeached. If only my predilection &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1005,1067,1047,1064,1025],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-197284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-communications","category-corrections","category-media","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197284"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=197284"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197284\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}