In a huge blow to Toshiba, Universal, and the rest of the HD DVD devotees, rental giant Blockbuster has decided to stock only Blu-ray discs in the vast majority of its nationwide locations, although HD DVD titles will continue to be offered online and in the 250 (out of 1,450) stores that have been testing both formats since last year. Blockbuster VP Matthew Smith revealed to the AP that the decision to go with Blu-ray -- which will reportedly be announced tomorrow -- stemmed from an overwhelming customer preference for those titles in the test markets, accounting for over 70% of all HD discs rented. Interestingly enough, it seems that content -- and not price -- was the deciding factor for consumers, with Blu-ray-only hits such as the Spiderman and Pirates of the Caribbean films apparently outmatching equivalent HD DVD exclusives. While it's still a little too soon to declare Blu-ray the outright winner, this Blockbuster decision only contributes to the momentum that Sony's darling has had of late -- momentum that at this point, might be too difficult for the other guys to counter. If Rogers Video follows suit, i think HDDVD will be finished for sure.
blue-ray is stronger anyways and both needs a expensive as hell player so people would most likely pick the more powerful one, but i still use dvds lol, wont be using either of these for a while... HDDVD was a bad idea because the only way they would be able to promote that was to create HDDVD games for the XBOX 360 but no, the HDDVD player was sold seperately, so HDDVD is screwed
Blu-Ray all the way! Simply because you can burn 20-45 gigs on a disc compared to the lousy 10-25 on hd dvd cant wait till they become affordable like in 2 years
lol a blue ray burner now is like $1000 that really sucks, what if you mess up a blue-ray disc though, they should all be RW. My DVD burner messed up like a box of my DVDs.
this isnt' really much of a blow... yes it hurts HD-DVD, but i wouldn't say its the killer blow... Blockbuster's already on its way out with NetFlix becoming way more popular than actually going to the movie rental store... and since Blockbuster's still gonna offer HD-DVD online, its not over yet...
not over yet, but they are eventually gonna lose profits producing em because nobody's really gonna get it because they are losing support.
o i agree... i'm for blu-ray too... i'm just saying this one blow isn't the end... its just gonna continue the string of blows -lol
i blame microsoft for not including a hd dvd drive, if the xbox 360 had a hddvd drive as part of the console it would be a great advantage the people at sony had the right idea for pushing blu ray by putting it in the ps3
i mean if you want to buy a machine that is multifunction then buy the PS3 its cheaper then just buying a Blu Ray machine, plus you get to play games and watch movies on PS3
Yeah okay check this out 799.99 for a video player even after the 200 dollar price drop.-what? http://www.sonystyle.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/ProductDisplay?storeId=10151&catalogId=10551&langId=-1&productId=11040237 and 19.00 for a blue ray recordable-what?http://www.google.com/products?q=blue+ray+recordable+disc&hl=en&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-USfficial&hs=yjm&um=1&sa=X&oi=froogle&ct=title Damn, blueray is too rich for my blood. And Netflix is getting beat by streaming hdtv content like Skype Video and Apple Streaming Movie service and stuff like that so what you're saying is somewhat obsolete. Yeah that's what I thought when I bought my PS2 until I found out it couldn't watch vcds. VCDs man. I would still prefer my hard drive or my dvd player until the prices come down.
btw anyone fan of kingdom hearts well its gonna be so much longer due the capacity of the disk that blue ray uses YAY FOR LONGER GAMING TIME
personally i don't think bluray have won yet. it's still way too early to who win. afterall, sony is known for producing formats that flopped, even though they're superior. a couple of days before blockbuster made their announcements there were news of bluray rot...
