Following the abandonment of HD-DVD by Toshiba in favour of Blu-ray, Microsoft has announced the immediate end of selling HD-DVD readers for the Xbox 360.
A posteriori, the company will certainly have lost money, but much less than if they had decided to market this as an internal reader inside the console.
Rumours have it that there will be a new reader - this time a Blu-ray - sometime this summer.
It remains amazing the speed the the HD-DVD is disappearing, as if industry wants at all costs to bring an end to this nightmare.
[translation by crispin]
