Business Wire: Best Buy to recommend Blu-ray as the customer's digital format choice

[Teazle]

Even some HD DVD diehards are taking this as a sign to "look for a dual-format player" ...

http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showt...=992351&page=2

[mystiksuicide]

Originally Posted by BStecke

We all said HD DVD would fail a year and a half ago Collectively, we're Nostradamus.

Maybe but I am way hotter!!!

[Elandyll]

Originally Posted by mystiksuicide

Maybe but I am way hotter!!!

Lol. A good photo shoot might be you in wizard's robes (ala Gandalf or Dumbledor). Might be too covered for Penton's taste, but that could be fun hehe.

[Spankey]

I imagine there is a lot more going on behind the scenes. Maybe Universal needed an out. With all major retailers now abandoning the format, there is no way anyone can claim HD-DVD is a viable format. They have their out. Paramount...whatever. They'll probably bend over backwards to keep releasing HD-DVD. They pulled the rug out from under us. No sympathy at all.

[GregBlu5]

Originally Posted by mystiksuicide

Maybe but I am way hotter!!!

Can't argue with that!

[Teazle]

Originally Posted by Spankey

I imagine there is a lot more going on behind the scenes. Maybe Universal needed an out. With all major retailers now abandoning the format, there is no way anyone can claim HD-DVD is a viable format. They have their out. Paramount...whatever. They'll probably bend over backwards to keep releasing HD-DVD. They pulled the rug out from under us. No sympathy at all.

I want to hear a comment from both those studios about their support of HD DVD now.

[bluperch]

Originally Posted by Elandyll

Monday: Netflix goes Blu exclu, Best Buy goes Blu prefered
Tuesday: Walmart and Target both drop HD DVD.
Wednesday: Blockbuster, in an effort to streamline its stocks, goes Blu exclusive for mail orders as well.
Thursday: Circuit City drops HD DVD, and CanalStudio anounces Blu Ray exclu
Friday 4:55pm Est - Paramount and Uni send both a pres release "Given circumstances, we now fully support Blu Ray and will progressively re-issue all our exisitng HD DVD catalogue on Blu Ray. All new releases will be Blu Ray exclusively".

Friday 5:45pm Est - Toshiba sends a memo to Reuters: WE WON THE FORMAT WAR!!
Friday 5:46pm Est - Everyone else in the world avoids eye contact with Toshiba and slowly shuffles out of the room.

[juanleche]

All the news today is making me randy

[JTK]

It must be a PR move that BB isn't outright going officially Blu exclusive and shutting the doors on HD-DVD but this is about a step or two shy of it. Semantics. In essence that's what they're doing.

Obviously what's going to happen, and has been, is HD-DVD inventory will be cleared, not restocked, and that will be the end of it.

I know any day now I'm going to see Uni and Paramount announce neutrality per their out clauses at the rate this is going. Sooner the better. Let's get it done and over with.

[goodstuff]

[MATTYBLU2]

[QUOTE=Elandyll;597974]Could it be the week?

Monday: Netflix goes Blu exclu, Best Buy goes Blu prefered
Tuesday: Walmart and Target both drop HD DVD.
Wednesday: Blockbuster, in an effort to streamline its stocks, goes Blu exclusive for mail orders as well.
Thursday: Circuit City drops HD DVD, and CanalStudio anounces Blu Ray exclu
Friday 4:45pm Est - Toshiba sends a memo to Reuters: Toshiba to stop producing new HD DVD-only hardware, and "has plan for combo player by Q4 2008".
Friday 4:55pm Est - Paramount and Uni send both a pres release "Given circumstances, we now fully support Blu Ray and will progressively re-issue all our exisitng HD DVD catalogue on Blu Ray. All new releases will be Blu Ray exclusively".

One can only hope (dream? ) [/QUOTE

sounds good to me!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Jim Morrison]

Originally Posted by goodstuff

[Spankey]

Obviously what's going to happen, and has been, is HD-DVD inventory will be cleared, not restocked, and that will be the end of it.

Yep....

I was in Best Buy this weekend, and while the selection was about equal, the HD-DVD discs were stuck behind the Blu-ray discs..If you walk into the store, you see Blu-ray...then you have to cross another aisle back from the door, and there is the HD-DVD section. Not where the most traffic is.

[Cyorg]

I found this post on AVS to be pretty funny

That Sony really gets around don't they. They've been able to buy off Dell, Panasonic, Samsung, Disney, Fox, Warner, Lionsgate, Pioneer, Philips, Sharp, Blockbuster, and now Netflix and Best Buy.

[Balian]

B L U - R A Y .....HIP HIP..... H U R R A Y!!

[dadkins]

WOW!!!
Best Buy - Netflix... OUCH!

[L or S of Perfect?]

Originally Posted by Balian

B L U - R A Y .....HIP HIP..... H U R R A Y!!

LOL.....

It's like a fruit bowl celebration.

[Balian]

Originally Posted by Cyorg

I found this post on AVS to be pretty funny

Yep ...in their eyes, Sony is either the devil or the Almighty God.

[TheFaze]

Wham, bam, thank you ma'am!

[Amel]

5 star thread

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