Blu-ray's day: Toshiba quits HD DVD - Gadgets- msnbc.com

And then, there was one ...

TOKYO - Toshiba said Tuesday it will no longer develop, make or market HD DVD players and recorders, handing a victory to rival Blu-ray disc technology in the format battle for next-generation video.

"We concluded that a swift decision would be best," Toshiba President Atsutoshi Nishida told reporters at his company's Tokyo offices.

The move would make Blu-ray — backed by Sony Corp., Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., which makes Panasonic brand products, and five major Hollywood movie studios — the winner in the battle over high-definition DVD formatting that began several years ago.

[From Blu-ray's day: Toshiba quits HD DVD - Gadgets- msnbc.com]

To kick-off the festivities, let's have Douglas Adams' Singing Dolphins Chorus:

So long and thanks for all the fish

So sad that it should come to this

We tried to warn you all but oh dear?



You may not share our intellect

Which might explain your disrespect

For all the natural wonders that

grow around you



So long, so long and thanks

for all the fish



The world's about to be destroyed

There's no point getting all annoyed

Lie back and let the planet dissolve



Despite those nets of tuna fleets

We thought that most of you were sweet

Especially tiny tots and your

pregnant women



So long, so long, so long, so long, so long

So long, so long, so long, so long, so long



So long, so long and thanks

for all the fish



(yeah)



So long and thanks for all the fish

So sad that it should come to this

We tried to warn you all but oh dear?



(oh dear)



Despite those nets of tuna fleets

We thought that most of you were sweet

Especially tiny tots and your

pregnant women



So long, so long, so long, so long, so long

So long, so long, so long, so long, so long



So long, so long and thanks

for all the fish