Blu-Ray and HD-DVD: The End Game
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Case Code : BSTR287 Case Length : 14 Pages Period : 2006-2008 Pub Date : 2008 Teaching Note :Not Available Organization : Large Industry : Consumer Electronics Countries : USA, Europe and Japan
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Toshiba's stock price on the Nikkei had gone up by 5.7 percent on February 18, 2008, in anticipation of the impending announcement about the withdrawal. After the announcement was made, the share fell by 0.6 percent.
Toshiba's decision to pull out of the High Definition4 player market was taken after its HD format faced several setbacks in early 2008.
On February 11, 2008, Netflix5, a US-based online video rental company, announced that it would stop stocking HD DVD disks and on February 15, 2008, Wal-Mart, the world's largest retailer, said it would only sell Blu-ray players and disks.
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Earlier in January 2008, Warner Bros.6 had announced that it would release movie titles exclusively in the Blu-ray format (Refer Exhibit II for a comparison of Blu-ray, HD-DVD, and DVD). Explaining his company's decision, Barry Meyer, chairman and Chief Executive, Warner Bros, said, "The window of opportunity for high-definition DVD could be missed if format confusion continues to linger."7 Warner Bros had been releasing its movies in both formats till then.
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Apart from the dwindling support from content providers and retailers, the fact that Blu-ray hardware (players, recorders, and drives) and software were outselling HD DVD gear would have influenced Toshiba's decision to discontinue production, analysts said. While Toshiba's announcement of stopping production of HD DVD players spelt the end of the format war between HD DVD and Blu-ray, it looked as though the Blu-ray had become the de facto standard for next generation optical storage media.
However, analysts were not too sure whether this would result in a financial windfall for Sony and the other backers of the Blu-ray format... |
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