Toshiba’s HD-DVD format is backed way into the corner and getting the piss beat out of it. The referee is mere seconds away from jumping in and stopping the fight. How did this all happen? Wal-Mart today announced they will stop selling all HD-DVD players and discs by June of this year. Ouch. Here’s what Susan Chronister of Wal-Mart had to say on the company’s blog:
So… if you bought the HD player like me, I’d retire it to the bedroom, kid’s playroom, or give it to your parents to play their John Wayne standard def movies, and make space for a BD player for your awesome Hi Def experience.
Sick burn. I guess it all started with the Warner announcement earlier this year, followed by the quick one-two combo of Netflix and Best Buy turning to BluRay. Now almart has made the switch, which looks to be the final nail in the coffin of HD-DVD. Seriously, if Wal-Mart stops stops selling your format, just call it quits.
[via Check Out Blog]
Wow, it’s like dominoes. Who’s going to drop them next, Microsoft?
son of a whore
Lol nostars. Microsoft won’t drop it for awhile, cuz they don’t wanna make it look like they were wrong.
You know, I heard a rumor/speculation that Microsoft was backing HD-DVD to begin with because they knew it would lose, thus perpetuating the format war. They planned for the format war to hold out long enough that digital distribution would become the main platform and they would ultimately win in that respect. Just rumor, and seems like conspiracy theory, but just wanted to put that out there.
the government at it’s finest
I have heard that Toshiba will soon report that they will stop producing HD-DVD players, and may possibly start to produce Blue-Ray players.
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