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Japan's Nikkei: HD DVD Announcement from Toshiba Tomorrow, Sales and Production End by March

By matt buchanan, 4:20 PM on Mon Feb 18 2008, 4,992 views (Edit, to draft, Top, Slurp)

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Nikkei is reporting that Toshiba prez Atsutoshi Nishida will officially call it quits for HD DVD tomorrow, with sales and production ending in March for players, PC optical drives and the disks themselves. [Nikkei]

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