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Article: Sony's Stringer: Blu-ray v HD DVD at a stalemate.(SONY SCENE)
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- The Online Reporter
- Article date:
- November 21, 2007
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Sony chief Howard Stringer told the AP that he believes that the war for dominance between the two next-generation optical discs, Sony-and Panasonic-backed Blu-ray and Toshiba-and Microsoft-backed HD DVD, are at a stalemate. "It's been a difficult fight," Stringer said. "We were trying to win on the merits, which we were doing for a while, until Paramount changed sides." In ...