If you ever wanted official notice that HD-DVD is dead as a doorknob, here’s your wake-up call:
Netflix announced it won’t be renting HD-DVDs.
Best Buy won’t be selling HD-DVD players.
Toshiba is going to kill off its HD-DVD players entirely.
And the big one..
After June, Wal-Mart won’t sell HD-DVD movies or players.
Like it or not, when Wal-Mart gives certain tech the axe, that means general consumers won’t have it available to them whatsoever and therefore will be completely ignored.
Blu-Ray wins.
If you have an HD-DVD player or any HD-DVD movies, I’d suggest selling all of it now.
[Source: The Raw Feed]
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Justin Hitchborn (hitchface) said:
2/16/2008 4:10 am
At least some companies were smart and supported both or neither.
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JamJam said:
2/16/2008 12:39 pm
I’m sticking to my standard DVD player until the dust settles and the prices come down.
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Lespaul20 said:
2/16/2008 5:36 pm
It’s too bad. HD-DVD was cheaper and just as good, if not better. Hopefully Blu-Ray stuff will become more affordable very soon.
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