The worldly Consumer Electronics Show is turning out to be a celebration party for Blu-ray, the high-definition format that Sony Corp. backed, and a wake for a rival movie disc technology pushed by Toshiba Corp.

Just two months ago, Sony CEO Howard Stringer said the fight amoung Blu-ray and Toshiba’s HD DVD was at a “stalemate,” and expressed a wish to travel back in moment to avert it.

The impasse was broken Friday by Warner Bros. Entertainment, the last major

studio to put out movies in both formats. It announced it was ditching HD DVD, and from May on, would only publish on Blu-ray and traditional DVD.

The decision puts a strong majority of the major studios, five versus two, in the Blu-ray camp.

Asked Monday at the show whether the Warner announcement decides the format war, Stringer said: “I never put up banners that say ‘Mission Accomplished.’” But his cheerful delivery […]

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