Sony CEO calls high-def disc war a ‘stalemate’

Posted on Friday, November 9, 2007 by MegaZone

An AP story has Sony’s CEO, Howard Stringer, calling the format war between Blu-ray Disc (which Sony backs) and Toshiba’s HD DVD a ‘stalemate’:

The head of Sony Corp., Howard Stringer, said Thursday that the Blu-ray disc format the company has developed as the successor to the DVD is in a “stalemate” with the competing HD DVD format, chiefly backed by Toshiba Corp. and Microsoft Corp.
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“It’s a difficult fight,” said Stringer, speaking at the 92nd Street Y cultural center in Manhattan.

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