Quote Originally Posted by kexodusc
I don't see how this is significant at all. The first few quarters wouldn't amount to 1 fraction of 1000th of a percentage of market share, and the general market still wouldn't hear about this stuff until long after both products were well into production.

The only news I got from this is that there are indeed serious talks underway in an effort to combine the two formats to avoid a war. This is a positive. If anything, Toshiba's reluctance to push forward can probably be attributed to their optimism on this front, or at least a more logical "wait-and-see" approach.

Let's cross our fingers.
Actually Kex, the serious talks broke down, and everyone has dug in their feet. This really is significant in that Toshiba will no longer have a huge lead out of the gate they hoped for. And with Fox going with BlueRay, this give no one an advantage in product releases.

The best thing we can hope for at this point is a compromise or a universal player.