Toshiba declines to sell HD DVD patents to Taiwan makers, says newspaper

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Leading Taiwan-based makers of optical discs have made an attempt to acquire HD DVD patents from Toshiba after Toshiba gave up promotion of the self-developed blue-laser standard in February 2008, but Toshiba has declined to sell, according to the Chinese-language newspaper Economic Daily News (EDN).

http://www.digitimes.com/systems/a20080826PB200.html

Interesting. Toshiba not selling because it has an agreement with Sony not to pursue HD DVD anymore? And why would Taiwanese disc manufacturers want the HD DVD patent?