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Hi-Def Format War Over

February 20, 2008 | ISSUE 44•08

With Warner Brothers, Wal-Mart, Best Buy, and Netflix committing to Sony's Blu Ray discs, Toshiba announced that they are no longer manufacturing the rival HD-DVD. What do you think?

So you're saying all that time I spent watching HD-DVD movies was a waste?

Pauline Walker
Human Resources Manager
In Best Buy stockrooms and Costco warehouses across the country, you can look back at the carnage left behind from the HD-DVD–Blu-Ray war and you have to ask yourself: Was it worth it?

Gideon Parfrey
Systems Analyst
If you're telling me I need to buy my kids another copy of Night At The Museum, I'm putting a gun in my mouth.

Darren McCloskey
Dock Worker

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