{"id":1603,"date":"2008-02-19T11:26:59","date_gmt":"2008-02-19T16:26:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/2008\/02\/19\/toshiba-quits-hd-dvd-format-war\/"},"modified":"2015-09-14T08:07:54","modified_gmt":"2015-09-14T12:07:54","slug":"toshiba-quits-hd-dvd-format-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/2008\/02\/19\/toshiba-quits-hd-dvd-format-war\/","title":{"rendered":"Toshiba quits HD DVD &#8216;format war&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry\">\n<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/pcin.net\/c\/?1978\">CNN<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Toshiba said Tuesday it will no longer manufacture HD DVDs, effectively ending the long-running battle with the rival Blu-ray for a dominant high-definition format.<\/p>\n<p>Toshiba said it made the decision to cease developing, manufacturing, and marketing HD DVDs after &#8220;recent major changes in the market.&#8221; It promised to continue offering support and service for all existing Toshiba HD DVD products.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We carefully assessed the long-term impact of continuing the so-called &#8216;next-generation format war&#8217; and concluded that a swift decision will best help the market develop,&#8221; Toshiba President and Chief Executive Atsutoshi Nishida said in a news release.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From CNN: Toshiba said Tuesday it will no longer manufacture HD DVDs, effectively ending the long-running battle with the rival Blu-ray for a dominant high-definition format. Toshiba said it made the decision to cease developing, manufacturing, and marketing HD DVDs after &#8220;recent major changes in the market.&#8221; It promised to continue offering support and service &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1977,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2,16],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1603","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-computer-news","7":"category-digital-entertainment","8":"anons"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1603","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1977"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1603"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1603\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}