Intel Dumps OLPC, Blu-ray wins format war

OLPC was dealt another blow Friday when Intel announced it was pulling the plug on its financial and technical contributions to the project. Incidentally, the OLPC XO uses an AMD processor, but that has nothing to do with it, mmkay?

The next-gen DVD format war may be over. Warner, which was the last of only two studios (Paramount was the other, before going to HD DVD) to offer movies in both formats. The company say it will go fully Blu-ray in May, which leaves only Paramount and Universal as the big studio players in the HD DVD consortium. While the HD DVD folks seem totally bummed, canceling their news conference at the upcoming Consumer Electronics Show, a funny thing might happen now that the year-long stalemate seems to be coming to an end. People might actually start to go hi-def for movies and not just for TV. Because, really, this protracted format war has just hurt the deployment of hi-def video as a technology.