May, 2004 18: The name of "Founder of Blu-ray Disc" was officially changed to "Blu-ray Disc Association".
September 2, 20041day: Sony Computer Entertainment (SCE) announced that the next-generation game console "PlayStation 3" will adopt Blu-ray disc as the standard format.
June 5438+1October 5, 2006: The Blu-ray Disc Alliance originally planned to release Blu-ray Disc-related products at the International Consumer Electronics Show (CES), but later the release date was postponed to June of the same year due to Blu-ray specifications.
/10 2006 June 2006 14: Sony Group launched the world's first laptop "VAIO A" series with Blu-ray disc player.
June 2006165438+1October 1 1: PlayStation 3, a next-generation game machine equipped with Blu-ray disc player, is released in Japan.
June 2007 5438+1October 10: The Nihon Keizai Shimbun reported that Blu-ray discs occupy 94.8% of the next-generation optical disc market in Japan, and it is expected that Blu-ray discs will eventually win the competition of the next-generation optical disc format.
August 20th, 2007: Paramount Film Company changed from supporting Blu-ray Disc and HD DVD at the same time to using HD DVD as the only HD movie storage disc recognized by Paramount, and announced that its subsidiaries such as DreamWorks, DreamWorks Animation SKG, Nick International Pictures and MTV Movies changed to only supporting HD DVD. The top management of Paramount Film Company admitted through Viacom that Paramount collected a total of $65.438+0.50 billion from the HD DVD camp to provide exclusive copyright for one and a half years, which was paid in the form of cash and future income.
September 2007 1: Blu-ray Disc Alliance announced at the Consumer Electronics Show (IFA) in Berlin, Germany, that Blu-ray Disc has overwhelmingly occupied 90% of the Japanese next-generation disc market, and the sales volume of Blu-ray Disc in Europe has been ahead of HD DVD by 3: 1, and more than 66% of the American next-generation disc market is occupied by Blu-ray Disc.
2007165438+129 October: East Asia Records (Group) released its first Blu-ray DVD "Jingfu Xiumi Sammi Cheng Concert 2007" in Hong Kong Red Room.
65438+200814 October: Warner Bros. Entertainment announced that it had left the HD DVD camp and stopped releasing HD DVD discs from June 2008. In the future, it only supported Blu-ray discs as disc formats. Barry Meyer, CEO of Warner Bros., believes that supporting the exclusive use of Blu-ray discs is conducive to the popularization of the entire HD market, and the long-term format dispute will only make the film industry miss the opportunity of the HD market.
June 5438+10/October 5, 2008: New Line Cinema, a subsidiary of time warner Inc. Company, followed the decision of Warner Bros. to stop the release of HD DVD.
June 5438+10/October 8, 2008: The Financial Times reported that Paramount Pictures is considering returning to the Blu-ray Disc Alliance by exercising a clause in the exclusive agreement reached with the HD DVD camp, which stipulates that "if Warner Bros. abandons the HD DVD camp, Paramount can follow". Microsoft, on the other hand, said that which format the company will adopt in the future will only be left to consumers to choose.
June 5438+10/October 9, 2008: HBO, another subsidiary of time warner Inc. Company, will stop the release of HD DVD following the decision of Warner Bros.
65438+2008 1 October 28th: British Woolworths Group PLC announced that according to the sales figures for the Christmas holiday in 2007, the sales of Blu-ray discs were significantly ahead of HD DVD at the ratio of 9:/Kloc-0:, so it was decided that all stores would only sell Blu-ray discs from now on.
February, 2008 1 1: Best Buy, a large chain retailer in the United States, announced that in order to avoid consumers' confusion in choosing the next generation of optical disc players, all stores decided to fully support Blu-ray disc players, DVDs and related products from now on, so that consumers can correctly grasp the high-definition entertainment content. On the same day, Netflix, an online video store, made the same decision and only supported Blu-ray disc as the only recognized next-generation disc format.
February 15, 2008: Wal-Mart, the largest chain retailer in the United States, announced that from June, all stores will only sell Blu-ray disc players, DVDs and related products, and HD DVD products will be gradually withdrawn from the shelves.
February 19, 2008: Atsutoshi Nishida, president of Toshiba, announced that the company had decided to stop the development of all HD DVD players and recorders, stop the production of HD DVD optical drives for computers and games in real time, and scheduled to quit all HD DVD-related businesses at the end of March. With the withdrawal of HD DVD leaders, the dispute over the format of the next generation optical disc, which lasted for many years, officially came to an end, and finally Blu-ray disc won.