Did you invest in HD tech names?

[buckshotdots]

Just read this...

Toshiba may drop HD DVD format

TOKYO -- Japanese electronics maker Toshiba might withdraw its HD DVD next-generation video format, Kyodo News agency reported Saturday.

The report cited unidentified individuals from the industry as saying Toshiba Corp. is reviewing its operations, with the timing of the withdrawal to be decided later, depending on U.S. demand for its HD DVD products and other factors.

Calls went unanswered at Toshiba Corp.'s Tokyo office, which was closed for the weekend.

HD DVD has been competing against the Blu-ray technology, backed by Sony Corp., other makers and five major Hollywood movie studios.

Recently the Blu-ray disc format has been gaining market share, while Toshiba has been forced to slash prices to sell its HD DVD machines. A Toshiba pullout would signal the almost certain defeat of HD DVD to Blu-ray.

On Friday, Wal-Mart Stores Inc., the largest U.S. retailer, said it will sell only Blu-ray DVDs and hardware and no longer carry HD DVD offerings.

The announcement came five days after Netflix Inc. said it will cease carrying rentals in HD DVD. Several major U.S. retailers have made similar decisions, including Target Corp. and Blockbuster Inc.

Last month, Warner Bros. Entertainment decided to release movie discs only in the Blu-ray format, becoming the latest studio to reject HD DVD.

Warner Bros., owned by Time Warner Inc., had been the only remaining Hollywood studio releasing high-definition DVDs in both formats.

Both formats deliver crisp, clear high-definition pictures and sound, but they are incompatible with each other, and neither plays on older DVD players.

Only one format has been expected to emerge as the winner, much like VHS trumped Sony's Betamax in the video format battle of the 1980s.

 

[ssamriga]

I didn't invest in HD only in OLED.
HD though isn't that bad as an acronym, because High Definition still is is a popular term...

 

[gingeman]

neither will last long. Streaming media etc will takeover soon enough.

 

[VisionEdger]

I have over 200 oled related .com domains many with hd in the domain.

neither will last long. Streaming media etc will takeover soon enough.

. when 2025??

neither will last long. Streaming media etc will takeover soon enough.

. when 2025?? thats a bit of an alarmist statement imho. do you have major streaming media domains possibly?

 

[gingeman]

I don't personally expect HD or Blu-ray to become format's every househould will have- I don't have any streaming media names either. I remember reading a while back how some of the major porn companies had no plans to release on either blu-ray nor hd-dvd as they anticipated it more likely that consumers would all move to downloads before those formats had become something everybody had. Obviously that market is more prone to moving that way than others, but it still was enough to put me off investing heavily in hd.
I just see it as a technology that I expect to be superceded faster than some others do.