The dust has not settled on Toshiba's announcement about its defeat in the Blue Ray vs HD-DVD battle but tech journalists are already waiting for the next format war.
Thousands of articles have been written about the tussle between Sony and Toshiba around their competing formats for high-definition (HD) video. Almost all of them mentioned the "VHS vs Betamax" battle in a singularly nostalgic fashion, even by journalists born after that era.
With Tuesday's announcement by Toshiba, tech journos find that guilty pleasure taken away from them. Tag Eek, a staff writer for a leading news agency says that, "I was hoping the battle to continue for some time longer. I guess I will sneak in a story before even Microsoft bows out."
A reporter at the Toshiba press conference said, "This is sad. I CANNOT wait for the next video format war to open up!"
