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The Format wars for the next generation DVD’s are over. Blu-ray backed by Sony Corp. has finally managed to trump Toshiba backed HD-DVD. Toshiba finally gave up yesterday, and the decision that Toshiba took was an “agonizing decision” that Toshiba had to take, says Toshiba president Atsutoshi Nishida. But then this decision had to be taken in the best interests of the company.

The tipping point came when Warner Bros. decided to join Sony Pictures Entertainment, MGM, Disney, 20th Century Fox, New Line Cinema and Lionsgate to support Blu-ray as the official format, making about 75% of all new movie releases available on Blu-ray. After that Blockbuster, Netflix and Wal-Mart all dropped support for HD DVD, and Best Buy also said it would favor Blu-ray.

But that battle for HD Video has just begun……

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Firefox 3 the upcoming version of the popular Firefox web browser would include a new revamped Download manager that would allow us to download and resume downloads across multiple sessions. Till date no Browser’s Download Manager supports Resume over multiple sessions.

So when the next Firefox comes out we will be able to download and resume files even after closing the browser. With the latest Alpha build the feature has already been implemented but the Interface design is still in works. Because of the Resume Support works we will need to tell the user if Resume is supported or not, simply because not all servers support Resume.

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