Atlantis returns! Plus is This The End For HD-DVD?
- 16 years ago
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Today in the national headlines: Atlantis returns! Plus is this the end for HD DVD?
Hi everyone I'm Andrea Rene and you're watching the national
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The space shuttle Atlantis returned to Kennedy Space Center
today after a 5 million mile journey. The seven astronauts on
board were all in good health and glad to be back on the
ground, especially NASA astronaut Daniel Tani who was on board
the international space station for 120 days! The return
highlights a successful delivery of a new European lab to the
space station, and despite some minor technical problems,
everything went off without a hitch. NASA next mission is only
3 weeks away when the first piece of Japan's new space station
lab is sent into orbit.
The battle to be the one and only high definition DVD format
took a decisive victory for Blu Ray fans. WalMart stores Inc.
have decided to sell Blu ray format DVD exclusively, and will
begin phasing out all HD DVD products immediately. As the
world's largest retailer with over 4,000 stores in the U.S.,
it comes as a win for Sony and devastating blow to the already
falling HD DVD technology developed by Toshiba. Many consumers
were frustrated by having two similar options for the new HD
expereience, and instead of trying to support both types of
technology, the people have spoken and they chose BLURAY.
Other large electronics chains to join the Blu Ray movement
include Best Buy and Netflix. PLUS, Warner Brothers, 20th
Century Fox, Walt Disney, and Lionsgate have all announced
they will release only in blu ray format as well. AND yes
there is more, Microsoft has even said that if consumer demand
is high enough, they will start converting the Xbox 360 from
HD DVD to Blu ray as well (which is one of the major selling
points of the Playstation 3).
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Today in the national headlines: Atlantis returns! Plus is this the end for HD DVD?
Hi everyone I'm Andrea Rene and you're watching the national
headlines from get the daily.com.
The space shuttle Atlantis returned to Kennedy Space Center
today after a 5 million mile journey. The seven astronauts on
board were all in good health and glad to be back on the
ground, especially NASA astronaut Daniel Tani who was on board
the international space station for 120 days! The return
highlights a successful delivery of a new European lab to the
space station, and despite some minor technical problems,
everything went off without a hitch. NASA next mission is only
3 weeks away when the first piece of Japan's new space station
lab is sent into orbit.
The battle to be the one and only high definition DVD format
took a decisive victory for Blu Ray fans. WalMart stores Inc.
have decided to sell Blu ray format DVD exclusively, and will
begin phasing out all HD DVD products immediately. As the
world's largest retailer with over 4,000 stores in the U.S.,
it comes as a win for Sony and devastating blow to the already
falling HD DVD technology developed by Toshiba. Many consumers
were frustrated by having two similar options for the new HD
expereience, and instead of trying to support both types of
technology, the people have spoken and they chose BLURAY.
Other large electronics chains to join the Blu Ray movement
include Best Buy and Netflix. PLUS, Warner Brothers, 20th
Century Fox, Walt Disney, and Lionsgate have all announced
they will release only in blu ray format as well. AND yes
there is more, Microsoft has even said that if consumer demand
is high enough, they will start converting the Xbox 360 from
HD DVD to Blu ray as well (which is one of the major selling
points of the Playstation 3).
You just heard some top stories from Get the daily.com. ...