{"id":3785,"date":"2007-10-08T08:25:55","date_gmt":"2007-10-08T15:25:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/?post_type=news&#038;p=3785"},"modified":"2013-03-03T16:04:50","modified_gmt":"2013-03-04T00:04:50","slug":"new-hd-dvd-consortium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/new-hd-dvd-consortium\/","title":{"rendered":"New HD-DVD Consortium"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_5305\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5305\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5305 \" alt=\"Microsoft and Toshiba are joining forces to boost HD DVD.\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/10\/ms_and_toshiba-S.jpg\" width=\"350\" height=\"267\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-5305\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Microsoft and Toshiba are joining forces to boost HD-DVD.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>OCT. 8, 2007 \u2022 Microsoft Corp. and Toshiba announce the creation of the Advanced Interactivity Consortium, an open forum aimed at boosting the adoption of the HD-DVD format, as well as delivering &#8220;advanced scenarios&#8221; to other platforms, such as digital downloads to DVD players, PCs, TVs, mobile phones and game consoles.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><em>Impact: The fight for high-definition storage remains very much alive. What started as a lukewarm embrace of HD-DVD has turned into a spirited campaign for Microsoft. Despite encouraging HD-DVD player sales, the prospect of $399 PS3s sales boosting the Blu-ray capable installed base is likely a good reason to ratchet up HD-DVD promotion. That probably is a good move because it still is an open question how frequently do gamers buy high-definition films to play on their consoles? On the other hand, there&#8217;s plenty of evidence to show that HD-DVD player owners are good consumers of HD-DVD movies. Outside of stymieing Sony, however, there seems to be little reward for Microsoft&#8217;s active role in HD-DVD adoption.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OCT. 8, 2007 \u2022 Microsoft Corp. and Toshiba announce the creation of the Advanced Interactivity Consortium, an open forum aimed at boosting the adoption of the HD-DVD format, as well as delivering &#8220;advanced scenarios&#8221; to other platforms, such as digital downloads to DVD players, PCs, TVs, mobile phones and game consoles. Impact: The fight for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3785"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3785"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3785\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5304,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3785\/revisions\/5304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}