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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At least some companies were smart and supported both or neither.
I’m sticking to my standard DVD player until the dust settles and the prices come down.
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.
well I guess it was like Beta vs VHS,Blue ray won by popular demand.I agree with Lespaul 20 HD was affordable and was just as good.
If the developers of the technology are not going to use it for anything then why not release it as an Open Source format? Having put some much R&D into it they could then make by manufacturing and selling the hardware. The trouble is, having a format people could do what they liked with (i.e. no DRM etc.) might create a significant demand for the technology…