The decision by Toshiba to throw in the towel in the format wars with their Blu-ray rivals has caused a surge of HD DVD players available for sale on eBay.This is great news for technology fans who can now snap up Blu-ray players with confidence, safe in the knowledge that they wont be nervously pacing the aisles of Virgin in a few months time looking for HD DVDs. 

While buying a piece of defunct technology may confuse the majority of the general public, there is little doubt that older pieces of technology still have kudos among techno junkies. In the eighties Betamax looked set to be the favourable format and rumour has it that companies supporting VHS were extremely close to admitting defeat, but a surge in interest in the tapes and a couple of clever marketing campaigns saw a resurgence and the rest is history…or is it?  Compare the two auctions below. 

Beta Auction

And 

VHS Auction

Surely the clever buyers will be snapping up one of the 200 HD DVD players that have gone up on eBay since Tuesday.