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Today's news from Toshiba, he threw the towel in the high definition format battle and no longer manufacture HD DVD, has transformed the speculation and rumors with facts. Now we must find what the effect will be to consumers and retailers.

Toshiba stock soared 5.7% Monday as investors applauded the decision likely to reduce the losses of a long battle with Blu-Ray. Microsoft is still silent about the effect of losing the HD DVD format proposed add on drive for the Xbox 360. The retailers are applauding the move, hoping that consumers are wary of buying an obsolete HD DVD player will buy the new Blu-Ray. Consumers who have already bought HD DVD players will certainly be able to buy really cheap HD DVDs that retailers will get rid of their existing titles. A lot of these titles will be available on the Internet for some time. I can see that E-Bay will receive a boost from the sale of these securities.

If everyone remembers Sony has lost the last format war when Sony Betamax competed with VHS and lost. The reason she lost this format was the same reason he won this round - the storage capacity. The new Blu-Ray Disc has twice the storage capacity of HD-DVD. current storage capacity is 25GB on a single layer disc and 50GB on a dual layer disc, and a 200 GB is being developed. The other reason VHS was better than Betamax was the speed rewind and fast forward. In today's digital image quality of the world depends on flow. HDTV can be up to 10 megabits per second while Blu-Ray can reach up to 48 Mbps. This can make a difference in very big action movies. Sony also had a better marketing strategy for this time of coupling with the PlayStation 3, offering a relatively cheap player combined with a popular video game console.

The game of next-generation console battle between Microsoft XBox 360 and Sony Playstation 3 has just written a new chapter. PlayStation 3 has become the big winner because they use the Xbox 360 HD DVD player. While Microsoft still has some way to Big Up, they were smart enough to offer HD DVD as an addition to the Xbox 360. When Microsoft goes from here is unclear. The next Xbox integrate Blu-Ray or will they give up a player for a 250 GB hard drive?

Is that the next technology to integrate a solid state drive? DSS currently has a storage capacity of 64 GB with no moving parts. They have access to data much faster with more reliability and consume less energy. Currently SSDs are not cheap. The MacBook Air uses the 64GB SSD with a price of $ 1,300 higher than the same unit with a 80GB hard drive. But remember that it was not so long ago, at a cost of 256 MB USB flash drive over 16 GB USB flash drive today. The following video format may well incorporate a semiconductor memory. For the latest news from the consumer electronics visit Digital picks.com