Toshiba Says Unified DVD Format is Tough

An official at Toshiba told reporters that supporting a unified DVD format developed by Sony would be a difficult task.

“”(Unifying the formats based on Sony technology) would be extremely difficult at this stage,” the newspaper quoted Yoshihide Fujii, Toshiba’s top negotiator, as saying about ongoing talks betweenthe two camps.

The comment follows a weekend of negotiations between officials at Toshiba, which backs a new DVD technology called HD-DVD, and officials from Sony and Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. (6752.T), which support a rival technology known as Blu-ray.”

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Source: Reuters

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