Old news, but incase you possibly missed this - Toshiba officially announced the discontinuation of HD-DVD yeaterday. It’s pretty much been dead in the water for a while now, but Walmart’s recent announcement regarding shifting towards solely offering Blu-ray became the nails in their coffin.

I’m pumped that Blu-ray stayed and HD-DVD went bye-bye. IMHO, Blu-ray out performs HD-DVD even to the eye. I’m not pumped that I picked up an HD-DVD at Christmas time and a variety of HD-DVD only titles. Looks like it’s all been bricked very quickly.

There will surely be a surge in the market now, due to all the wait-and-see people finally making their well thought out purchases.

I think we’ll be seeing prosumer Blu-ray authoring soon as well. Thank God!

Anyone care to take a guess how many cheap HD-DVD players and Xserve RAIDs will be on ebay this week?