Toshiba will announce that it will cease manufacturing HD-DVD equipment according to a Reuters news report.

Such a change essentially calls an end to the "format war", in which HD-DVD faced off against the competing Blu-Ray standard to be the definitive high-definition media format. The announcement also comes only a day after retailer Wal-Mart announced it would no longer carry HD-DVD media, a move which represented the death knell for the format to assorted analysts and customers.

Though Apple has yet to announce a Mac with a high-definition optical drive already installed or available as a build-to-order option, Blu-Ray may be in its future.

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