• Q & A on Blu-ray and HD-DVD with Phillip Swann

Phillip Swann, president and CEO of TVPredictions.com, was online Friday, Feb. 22 at 1 p.m. ET to discuss Toshiba’s announcement that it will stop making HD DVD players and recorders, and its impact on the industry.

The chat transcript has been posted online. Pretty insightful and informative reading material that touches many questions regarding Blu-ray, HD-DVD, standard DVDs and personal opinions.

For instance, I’ve been asked a couple of times if an old standard DVD collection of movies would be rendered useless in a Blu-ray world - No. Unlike the shift from LaserDiscs to DVDs, Blu-ray players are backward compatible and plays standard DVDs fine.