HD DVD is dead, long live Blu-Ray.

    The war is over. Yesterday Toshiba announced it would stop producing HD DVD equipment. And thus Blu-Ray has won. Although not as expensive as the war in Iraq, Toshiba, Microsoft, Paramount and Universal are still going to have to cope with hundreds of millions of dollars in losses due to their support of the losing side.

    A war that has been waged for several years has seen many battles. But after HD DVD lost the battle of Warner Bros to victorious Blu-Ray, an unconditional surrender was all but inevitable. And Friday’s announcement that Wal-Mart was going to support Blu-Ray was merely the death-knell.

    The true winners in this conflict are you, me, and all the other consumers. Acceptance of the new DVD technologies has been delayed by an estimated 2 years because of this war. So, let us rejoice as we won war.