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HD-DVD a goner? Feb. 15, 2008
Source: The Hollywood Reporter   by: Mike Sampson

UPDATE - As if you needed any more ammunition, Wal-Mart will go exclusive to Blu-ray in June. Ouch.

Ever since Blu-ray sent Warner Bros. a big fat check and convinced the studio to start sipping their Kool-Aid, the home entertainment looky lous have been clucking about how HD-DVD was done for. Well it looks like HD-DVD is done for. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Toshiba, the developer of HD-DVD, is expected to formally pull the plug on HD-DVD before the end of March. Toshiba would neither confirm nor deny the report but said they would "continue to study" the viability of HD-DVD. Data collected after the WB shift to Blu-ray says that HD-DVD has made up less than 10% of the hardware sales in the high-def DVD market (actual disc sales for early February are at about 80% Blu-ray). Toshiba was hoping that slashing prices on its players would still be able to entice consumers to opt with their format. But Netflix then dropped HD-DVD and Best Buy made the choice to recommend Blu-ray to all its shoppers. The low cost of players never caught on and Toshiba is losing money hand over fist on the players it drastically reduced. All this, of course, is good news for consumers who finally can dedicate themselves to one format instead of sitting back and waiting for a winner. Let's get this winner on-board and start moving on with our lives...

Extra Tidbit: Will Microsoft start adding Blu-ray to Xbox 360?

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PumpyFly on Feb 18 2008, 3:32:53 AM writes:
PS3!
A PLAYSTATION 3 is the best Blu-Ray player out there. And by the way, you don't have to buy all of your dvd's all over again people. You just start buying blu-ray discs from now on and keep your standard dvd's.
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Ultimate_Surfer on Feb 16 2008, 12:22:53 PM writes:
YESSS!!!!!
Die HD-DVD Die!!!! I'm so glad HD-DVD is dying and we can end this stupid HD war.

I'm glad buying a PS3 wasn't a complete waste, i'll get to play Blu-ray movies and when is that dame Home program going to release!!!! :(
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sygnus on Feb 16 2008, 4:56:06 AM writes:
SEEMS ABOUT OVER
It does seems that this is about over, however everyone said the same thing about HD-DVD when WB switched sides. Word was we would see a Universal and Paramount/Dreamworks defection asap. Months later and nada. I actually like both but prefer Blu as it has the biggest potential for growth. HD-DVD is a good product with far less starting gate flaws and a solid catalog of cool exclusive titles, but the Blu is damn sexy with a few blemishes to work out. Now what might be the wild card is this China thing. CH-DVD is possibly compatible with HD-DVD. That would be a freaking huge market to ignore. With this MASSIVE push in China for eveyone to be Hi-Def there for the Olympics, and a market place of hundreds of millions of hardware devices compatible with HD-DVD, maybe that is why Toshiba and the rest seems to be pushing through all the recent bad news for their camp. Who knows.
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skywalker25 on Feb 16 2008, 4:40:23 AM writes:
MICROSOFT AND BLU-RAY
I don't have an issue number, but I do remember reading an interview in OXM last year sometime about the HD DVD add-on. At the end of the interview the magazine asked if it turned out that Blu-ray was the clear winner, would they start to offer a Blu-ray add-on instead. The person being interviewed said they had already considered that and were not against the idea at all. Take from that what you will.
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Spoonard on Feb 16 2008, 1:35:17 AM writes:
HD DVD
I will continue buying HD DVD's till there is no more to buy. Then I will buy SD DVD's and use my Xbox 360 HD DVD player to upscale them. I WILL NOT SUPPORT BLU-RAY!!!
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MasterChief3624 on Feb 15 2008, 5:51:40 PM writes:
ARGH, TYPE IT CORRECTLY...
It is HD DVD. No hyphen between HD and DVD.

Argh..

-.-

But anyways... I hate that HD DVD is losing. Blu-ray is not the better format. It's just the one that is making a bigger profit, so of course all the studios are flocking to it.

I hate this industry sometimes :|
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LoCkEd_N_LoAdEd on Feb 15 2008, 4:14:28 PM writes:
I'M HAPPY
in my opinion, blu-ray is kicking HD-DVDs ass. and it shows. i have an xbox 360 and a ps3. i just use my ps3 for blu-ray. but i hope that microsoft makes a blu-ray player attatchment. that would be nasty =P

GT: DaCh0zen0ne
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the clever guy on Feb 15 2008, 4:03:48 PM writes:

hey cricker....do you have evidence to back up your claim that microsoft WILL be putting blu-ray drives into their 360's? while this may or may not be good news....i dont fucking like it one bit. more storage? better picture? blah blah blah? i dont give a shit. my dvd's play, look, sound, and seem just fucking fine. i fucking hate the fact that now i'm going to have to re-buy all of my goddamn dvds at some point. and then we'll have blu-ray forever...then some new fucking format will come out. vicious fucking cycle. it's bad enough we are dumb enough to "double dip" buy dvds (ooohhhhhh, 2 extra scenes and an extended commentary)....let alone $35 fucking blu-rays discs! god, who knows what that double-dip pricing will be!
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Brer B8a on Feb 15 2008, 3:45:47 PM writes:
JOHNHAWKS
Blu-Ray is not over are you kidding me? Companies are going to push blu-ray on everyone now just like they did with dvd's. Soon everyone is going to be forced to buy HDTV's and if you have ever seen how a regular dvd looks on an HDTV without a upconverting player, it looks like shit. Blu-ray players will play blu-ray and upconvert your DVD's, so why not spend a little extra for a blu-ray player that will play dvd's and blu-ray. Prices will eventually come down too. Don't think it is going to cost $400 for a player by this time next year. And the whole idea of a home entertainment ipod will never work. People want their hard copies so they can take them over to their friends house or let somebody borrow them and so on. Plus people aren't going to wait a week to download a 20 GB movie. Can you imagine your storage drive crashing along with all your movies you bought? That would suck. Blu-ray is going to be here for awhile.
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sanjayx2000 on Feb 15 2008, 3:35:53 PM writes:
HD VS. BR
There is only one thing to say. The worst format allways win.
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