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Sonic drops its support for HD DVD
Posted on 30/01/08 17:07 by Tim Stork
Sonic Solutions announced that their Professional Product Group will focus its research and development resources on the creation of new applications for authoring of Blu-ray Disc titles.
Sonic's Professional Product Group now officially stops with supporting HD DVD. Without Sonic's support and products like Scenarist studios will find it much harder to release their titles.
Can we now conclude that HD DVD is dead?
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SpeedyJDK (guest),
Wed 30 Jan 2008 21:34
Every day this year. I just become more and more happy 
This is BETTER than christmas 
This is BETTER than christmas No, HD DVD is not F'ing dead !
HD DVD players are still outselling BR players on major line sites like Amazon. They account for over 60% of standalone HD players in the UK, and sales have rebounded since the Toshiba price cuts. Also the attach rates for number of movies bought per player are much higher than BR.
It aint over.
It ain't over. But it should be. It would be great for BluRay to finally win, quash HD-DVD and solve our dual-format dillemma. After all - the BD-R/RE have been around a while already - that's what matters to me. The technical aspects are in favour of BluRay ....
Someone just needs to accept their loss .....
Still not caring which side wins, and won't until either one side wins & all movies are moved from hd dvd to bluray or vica versa...
or until dual players are more affordable.
Anyone else a sick of this? just a little?
This is totally outrageous behavior for someone who is supposed to be posting "news" stories. It really degrades the credibility of CDFreaks in all areas, not just this one.
If CDF is going to use the news area for personal opinions rather than "news", there's not much point in coming here to read anything at all.
Really disgusting behavior. 
@CDan,
As far as I can tell this is news, Sonic drops HD DVD support. All the rest of the discussion is personal opinion.
@ivid
You're a stubborn guy, aren't you? 
Just accept reality and move on, man. HD-DVD is dead. The player sales you are witnessing is just the fact that Toshiba and the few others who also produce HD-DVD hardware, are dumping stock and probably selling at far below cost. They know they better get rid of all that dead weight before it's too late. 
The attach rate numbers are really laughable too:
1. On one hand they say that they sell more players than Blu-Ray. Of course they keep the PS3 out of these numbers...
2. On the other hand they number attach rates by taking into account the PS3. LOL
It's sad and funny at the same time. 
Desperation makes you go crazy.
And what's this Google ad I see here?
"Save HD DVD Format
Don't let studios kill HD DVD. Sign Petition to keep alive.
www.youchoose.net/"
Mwahahahahahah! LOL This message was edited at: 31-01-2008 12:57
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Sweeney Todd (guest),
Thu 31 Jan 2008 16:26
I am not surprised this happened when seeing Sonic Solutions' close relationship with SONY.
@johnzap
"are dumping stock and probably selling at far below cost. "
Hmm, didn't Sony do this?
@johnzap
"1. On one hand they say that they sell more players than Blu-Ray. Of course they keep the PS3 out of these numbers"
I seem to recall a news article awhile back stating that only a small percentage of PS3 owners actually watched Bluray or even purchased Bluray movies.
http://www.cdfreaks.com/news/Many-PS3--Xbox-360-owners-unaware-of-HD-capabilities.html
@sic
What, "Can we now conclude that HD DVD is dead?", is not implying a personal opinion?
Well, my opinion is that HD DVD is almost dead. This is just sad news. Warner Bros. really stabbed us in the back and I for one will not buy another of their movies so long as I live. Well, I may buy one and copy it 100 times and give them away to friends and family. This will hurt Warner more, I think. Yeah, let's roll with that.
@DukeNukem;
I hear ya, but thats if your able to copy it to begin with.. Sony with their notorious DRM will give us problems for sure..By
squinty (guest),
Sun 3 Feb 2008 20:19
Anydvd has been able to copy both formats for a while now. The burners and media are so expensive that there's no point to burn them back to their respected media yet. You can pump them through a media center of course though.
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Rick (guest),
Tue 5 Feb 2008 03:21
Let's see. Blue= upside:higher capacity for data writing.
Neutral: when rewrite becomes common (ie hardware becomes affordable). Recyclable data backups
Downside: Sony and all their unscrupulous CMR tricks
Incomatible (without special drives) w/ HD DVD or (correct me if I'm mistaken) DVD.
Pimary factors seem to be NonTrustworthy Corporation. Expense of gear. LAck of X-platform utility.
Concolusion: Niether is really ready for "prime-time" still an overpriced geek thing.
I'll stick w. upconverting until the situation becomes more commodity based.
R-
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