There are more stories every other day about this HD DVD war and “who will win?” I loved 300 but… I knew who was winning and who wasn’t. Reality has to settle in at some point as this stand is nowhere near as sexy or meaningful. OK. OK. I know the Giants recently defied great odds and beat the Patriots (I picked them to win by 3 btw : ) ) but this format “war” is ridiculous at this point, IMHO. Today, there are a couple more giants jumping to Blu-ray over HD-DVD: Best Buy and Netflix. The momentum has been growing for a while now and looks to be too fast to stop.
Best Buy, the largest U.S. consumer electronics chain, said on Monday it will recommend that consumers choose Sony Corp’s Blu-ray high-definition video format.
The decision gives Sony yet another victory in the battle with Toshiba Corp’s HD DVD to be the high-definition DVD format of choice.
Earlier on Monday, online video rental company Netflix Inc (NFLX.O: Quote, Profile, Research) said it would exclusively stock Blu-ray DVDs after some of the world’s biggest movie studios decided in favor of that format.
Best Buy said it believes consumers will benefit from the choice of one HD DVD format.
“Because we believe that Blu-ray is fast emerging as that single format, we have decided to focus on Blu-ray products,” Brian Dunn, Best Buy’s president and chief operating officer, said in a statement.
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This post was written by Veg on February 11, 2008
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First, and a little off topic, your site loads painfully slow. Are you hosting from your home? Usually that is what is going on with slow sites.
Back on topic…I am SOOOO glad to see this finally happening. By this Christmas it will be time to get and HD player for the house. I came really close to buying an HD-DVD add on for my XBOX 360 but I just couldn’t get past the thought that I would be wasting money buying HD-DVD content. Looks like I made the right choice. Prices for Blu-Ray will start dropping like a rock. All around good for consumers.
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Unfortunately, for now, yes it is. We were supposed to have higher speeds available here soon but it hasn’t happened yet so I apologize for the slow loading.
And yes, I’m just glad it’s practically over at this point. HD-DVD is trying to hang in there much like Mike Huckabee is but… the writing is on the wall.
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