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Industry: Email Alert RSS FeedKnowing when to hold 'em.(HEADLINERS)(HD DVD and Blu-ray business strategies)
Video Business, August, 2005 by Sweeting, Paul
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: * HD DVD has made pronouncements of a fourth-quarter launch to pressure Blu-ray out of the high-definition format war, but with time running out and hardware plans still uncertain, the launch is looking less and less likely. * A better anti-Blu-ray tactic might have been to target votes in the DVD Forum and investigate the group's stalled approval of HD DVD.
********** Never bluff small. That's the lesson for HD DVD supporters, as they try to find a face-saving way to let the format's launch date slip into 2006. With time running out to get product onto retail shelves in time for the format's much-touted fourth-quarter debut, HD DVD's principal hardware backer, Toshiba, says it is "on schedule" for this year....
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