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Originally Posted by stockstar1138
considering that blu-ray has 2x as much studio support and nearly 2x the releases this should be expected. However, when Best Buy orders 15 copies of the BU on HD DVD, it really doesn't encourage Universal to do much, they are still making decent enough profits off hd dvd + payouts to not go blu-ray. consumers still see; i can go with spiderman, pirates, die hard, ratatouille or i can go with bourne, transformers, and shrek and for some they like the later movies better (plus its cheaper to get into hd dvd), thus choose hd dvd and continue this stupid war. if all the sudden Universal wasn't getting any $ from retailers for there hd dvd releases and when consumer went into a store and their only hd choice was blu-ray, there wouldn't be any confusion, there wouldn't be any hard decisions and blu-ray would take off and all parties would come out ahead. when blu-ray would take off and hd dvd would be this weird niche internet format, the studios would have no choice (as payouts couldn't possible be that big) but to go blu. thus, retailers stay in the movie business for at least 10 more years, studios make just as much money v. downloads and consumers get a better product. giving more shelf space to blu isn't really doing that much.
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It certainly would be great if retailers would implement this, it makes you wonder if many of them really see the big picture in the end. Obviously if they cut off Red it would end things much faster, but there are so many of them out there, that it is a case-by-case decision for most of them. You can see it from the anecdotes, some stores cater all Blu, others are lean slightly Red, other have mostly Blu. It would be nice to see some corporate level decisions from some of the big stores.