During our rounds at the CeBIT grounds we overheard a conversation of a Samsung employee telling someone else that his company pulled the plug on HD DVD and not Toshiba. Both companies are in a joint venture called TSST (Toshiba Samsung Storage Technologies). The joint venture is responsible for the production of optical drives for both Samsung and Toshiba and it seems that Samsung no longer wanted to invest in HD DVD production lines. Toshiba on the other hand didn’t want to drop the format and was ready to continue the high definition format war.
We are currently looking for more information regarding this subject and hope to give more information later.
