Japan says no to Blu-ray, HD DVD recorders for U.S.
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Machines' high price, and belief that demand for them in U.S. is relatively modest, will keep them out of U.S. market for now.
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Panasonic will sell the first Blu-ray DVD player-recorder in Japan in November, a company official said, months after rival Toshiba released a comparable product in a feud for the next standard of DVDs.
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Sony Corp.'s Japanese music unit says it will no longer sell CDs with built-in copy protection, a technology it had been pushing for two years.
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Ending a multiyear format battle with Sony-backed Blu-ray, Toshiba finally throws in the towel Tuesday, announcing it will no longer manufacture or sell HD DVD equipment.
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Toshiba Corp  is planning to give up on its HD DVD format for high-definition video, conceding defeat to the competing Blu-Ray technology backed by Sony Corp , a company source said on Saturday.
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Handing a victory to Blu-ray disc technology in the format battle for next-generation video, Toshiba said it would no longer develop, make or market HD DVD players.
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Sony Corp. 6758.T said on Wednesday it   will launch a DVD recorder using Blu-ray technology by the end   of the year in Japan, fortifying its lineup of high-definition   optical disc products.
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Sony Corp. (6758.T) said on  Tuesday it would launch its Blu-ray high-definition optical  disc recorder in Japan in December with an expected price tag  of around 300,000 yen ($2,550) for a model with a 500-gigabyte  hard disk drive.
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Toshiba may pull the plug on its high-definition DVD format but no decision has been made, the Japanese electronics maker said in a statement Monday.
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Japan's Matsushita Electric Industrial   Co. 6752.T said on Wednesday it would start selling two new   Blu-ray DVD recorders in Japan on November 15, heating up a   format battle for next generation optical disc technology.
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Toshiba Corp is planning to give up on  its HD DVD format for high definition DVDs, conceding defeat to  the competing Blu-Ray technology backed by Sony Corp, a company  source said on Saturday.
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Japan's Toshiba Corp  will announce plans to cease production and sales of HD DVD players on Tuesday, the Nikkei business daily said.
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A REPORT IN the Japan Times which suggested that Sony is reducing its investment in plasma TVs and could exit it completely has been denied.
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Blu-ray DVD recorders aren't in the states yet, but Hitachi is already looking at a Blu-ray camcorder with a new format.
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Warner Bros. Entertainment said yesterday that it will release high-definition movie discs only in the Blu-ray format, rejecting the rival HD DVD format and creating another complication for consumers.
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The Toshiba Corporation is planning to give up on its HD DVD format, formally conceding defeat to the competing Blu-ray technology backed by Sony.
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Sony Corp  said it will launch four models of new Blu-ray high-definition optical disc recorders in November in Japan, as its format battle with the HD DVD camp heats up.