OK, this is a crying shame. All of the news that has been reported by all of the news agencies about Blue-ray and HD-DVD coming to a compromise is apparently not applicable anymore.

Sony and Toshiba have been duking it out for next-gen DVD supremacy for a while now, and it turns out that recent reports of an impending truce are almost certainly inaccurate. If you’ve been following our coverage of this fight, then you know that Sony first quashed hopes for a possible compromise by vowing to fight to the finish. Shortly thereafter, the rumor mill changed course and coughed up the story that Sony and Toshiba were considering a unified format as a possible compromise. That a compromise was in the works has been the conventional wisdom up until today, when two stories hit the wires.

First, the Register reports that Toshiba characterized any claims of an impending compromise with Sony as “unfounded and erroneous.” Toshiba states that they’re still actively involved in unification talks (they’d be crazy not to considering what’s at stake), but they have no plans to float an actual unification proposal and no deal is imminent. [Read the rest]