The fallout from the now-over Blu-ray vs. HD DVD war is still coming, with Toshiba suffering a 95% loss in profits this quarter, most of it attributed to the failure of HD DVD as the format of choice for next-gen disc players.
Samsung, meanwhile, is showing a 37% increase in profits, mostly from mobile phones and LCDs.
For Toshiba, it wasn’t just the licensing, but the loss of HD DVD’s manufacturing that cause the loss. Tosh had invested millions in the manufacture of the disks, but then had to shutter its plants.
Wars, even format wars, have casualties. The good news though is that Toshiba’s shares only fell 2% on the news.
You know you are a BIG company when you loose the war of the decade yet still mange to turn a profit!
Jon
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Why do you continue to pour salt into my wound? I suspect this is the build up process anyways, Toshiba is just building up Sony to come back later and have a massive take over and bring back HD-DVD! … one can be optimsitic.
I hate to agree with Marc since I own a PS3 and enjoy my BD-Roms but hes right. I havea few connections that are inside and HD-DVD is planning something. They are planning to ……Burn all of that blank media and toss it in the Garbage! haha BD-R for the W!nZ! hd-dvd FTLozZ! haha woot woot suckas!
Pure deception.