{"id":2791,"date":"2009-08-10T11:38:30","date_gmt":"2009-08-10T15:38:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/?p=2791"},"modified":"2009-08-10T11:40:00","modified_gmt":"2009-08-10T15:40:00","slug":"toshiba-quits-hd-dvd-for-blu-ray","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/2009\/08\/10\/toshiba-quits-hd-dvd-for-blu-ray\/","title":{"rendered":"Toshiba quits HD-DVD for Blu-ray"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The DVD format war is over, with\u00a0<a title=\"Toshiba giving up\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/aponline\/2009\/08\/10\/business\/AP-AS-Japan-Toshiba.html?scp=3&amp;sq=Toshiba&amp;st=cse\" target=\"_blank\">Toshiba giving up <\/a>its HD-DVD and switching to industry winner Blu-ray.\u00a0 School of Management Professor <a title=\"N. Venkat Venkatraman\" href=\"http:\/\/smgnet.bu.edu\/mgmt_new\/profiles\/VenkatramanN.html\" target=\"_blank\">N. Venkat Venkatraman<\/a>, chairman of the Information Systems Department, said the switch is a straightforward market decision.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;The winner is decided and consumer electronics devices will be on the winner\u2019s format.\u00a0\u00a0It is better to join sooner rather than later.\u00a0 The timing is critical as new PCs with Windows7 OS will be shipping soon and Toshiba should support it in a timely fashion.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Contact N. Venkat Venkatraman, 617-353-7117, <a href=\"mailto:venkat@bu.edu\">venkat@bu.edu<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The DVD format war is over, with\u00a0Toshiba giving up its HD-DVD and switching to industry winner Blu-ray.\u00a0 School of Management Professor N. Venkat Venkatraman, chairman of the Information Systems Department, said the switch is a straightforward market decision. &#8220;The winner is decided and consumer electronics devices will be on the winner\u2019s format.\u00a0\u00a0It is better to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":114,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[1580,1581,1582,1557,1579],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2791"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/114"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2791"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2791\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2796,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2791\/revisions\/2796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}