As our publishing year doesn't coincide with January-December, it's pure serendipity that the most important format event took place, yes, last January. When Toshiba pulled the plug on HD DVD, the consumer electronics industry could get back to more important things... like simply surviving what might be the worst economic period since the 1930s. Do any of us think a lesson has been learned? Consumer electronics manufacturers have always been more head-in-the-sand than even the automotive industry, which continued not to prioritise fuel economy after the 1970s fuel crisis, arriving at their current situation: a mad scramble to co-exist with the green juggernaut. Audio and video are far less important to the planet than transport, pollution, fossil fuels, et al, but this is Hi-Fi News, so - for this page at least - let's treat it with similar gravity.
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