Chief Prognosticator

And Now Microsoft Jumps Ship

The death of HD-DVD is here. No it wasn’t exactly here when Wal-Mart announced plans to stop selling them, nor was it when Toshiba gave up. But the death of HD-DVD format came this week as the 600-lb gorilla Microsoft announced that they will also stop selling the format for their XBox 360. The $130 add-on to the next generation console never real caught on with only about 300,000 units being sold. That’s far, far less than the 11 million Sony Playstation 3’s with their built-in Blu-Ray players. Adieu HD-DVD — we hardly knew you.