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Blu-ray Wins HD Format War

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Toshiba officially announced today they will discontinue HD-DVD products but will still provide support for existing customers.

The recent fall of HD-DVD:

Jan 04, 2008: Warner Bros. Entertainment to Release Its High-Definition DVD Titles Exclusively in the Blu-Ray Disc Format Beginning Later This Year

Feb 11, 2008: Netflix, Citing a Clear Signal From the Industry, Will Carry High-Def DVDs Only in Blu-ray Format

Feb 11, 2008: Best Buy to Recommend Blu-ray as the Customer’s Digital Format Choice

Feb 15, 2008: Wal-Mart Moving Exclusively Toward Blu-ray Format Movies and Players

Feb 19, 2008: Toshiba Announces Discontinuation of HD DVD Businesses

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Super Computer on a Chip

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IBM, Sony Corporation and Toshiba Corporation release key details of the upcoming Cell Chip. The cell chip uses parallel-processing, contains eight microprocessors that communicate that communicates with each other and can produce up to 10 times the performance of the latest PC processors. The chip also supports the ability of running multiple operating systems simultaneously. The Cell Chip is expected to be used in the upcoming Sony PlayStation 3. link