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I have read just the opposite. There is a move to a use a std, but there is no collaboration. Toshiba's format is the one being considered as the standard, not Sony's.
Read the outtake below from an article on Toshiba/SONY
"SONY is clearly out to make some ground against the competition - and the stakes for the corporate giant could not be higher: Having suffered several setbacks both in declining sales and loss of market share the company looked increasingly being cornered. Add to that the DVD Forum's decision (the inter-industry consortium set up to coordinate the development of the current DVD standard) to back Toshiba/NEC's so-called "HD-DVD" as the next generation format despite the fact that its parameters offer some 20GB less capacity on a dual layer than the Blu-ray competition. SONY, developer of the Blu-ray format, decided to change tactics in the on-going battle for a unified HD format on DVD, and opted instead of playing the "chess game at the green table" to go on the offensive by announcing to go it alone, if necessary - probably in the hope it would rattle the competition a (Mega)bit."
The whole article can be found here.http://www.dvdscan.com/blueray.htm
Read the outtake below from an article on Toshiba/SONY
"SONY is clearly out to make some ground against the competition - and the stakes for the corporate giant could not be higher: Having suffered several setbacks both in declining sales and loss of market share the company looked increasingly being cornered. Add to that the DVD Forum's decision (the inter-industry consortium set up to coordinate the development of the current DVD standard) to back Toshiba/NEC's so-called "HD-DVD" as the next generation format despite the fact that its parameters offer some 20GB less capacity on a dual layer than the Blu-ray competition. SONY, developer of the Blu-ray format, decided to change tactics in the on-going battle for a unified HD format on DVD, and opted instead of playing the "chess game at the green table" to go on the offensive by announcing to go it alone, if necessary - probably in the hope it would rattle the competition a (Mega)bit."
The whole article can be found here.http://www.dvdscan.com/blueray.htm
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