globeandmail.com: Your HD DVD just became a collector's item

It appears that Toshiba has thrown in the towel on its HD DVD technology and its pitched battle with Sony and its Blu Ray technology. Aside from the obvious potential implications for all those DVD players out there, it raises potentially serious issues for computer users. DVD's have been widely used for data storage and backup and the prospect that this technology might not be available down the road means that data backup and storage strategies need to be reconsidered. There may not be a big rush, though. What the Toshiba move does is to open the field for Blu Ray but it will still be up to consumers which way the technology goes. We won't know that for some time to come. globeandmail.com: Your HD DVD just became a collector's item