Posted on 02/11/2008 12:43:05 PM PST by Blennos
Dear Blennos,
You're receiving this email because you have asked to receive high-definition movies in the HD DVD format. As you may have heard, most of the major movie studios have recently decided to release their high-definition movies exclusively in the Blu-ray format. In order to provide the best selection of high-definition titles for our members, we have decided to go exclusively with Blu-ray as well.
While we will continue to make our current selection of HD DVD titles available to you for the next several months, we will not be adding additional HD DVD titles or reordering replacements.
Toward the end of February, HD DVDs in your Saved Queue will automatically be changed to standard definition DVDs. Then toward the end of this year, all HD DVDs in your Queue will be changed to standard definition DVDs. Don't worry, we will contact you before this happens.
You can click here to change your format preferences.
We're sorry for any inconvenience. If you have any questions or need further assistance, please call us at 1 (888) 638-3549.
-The Netflix Team
Blu-ray looks nice, I gotta admit, but still not worth replacing my DVD collection. My upconverting DVD player does a nice job with a 1080i output.
I’ll wait for the player prices to come down a bit, too.
Nothing like forcing new technology down own throats.
more planned obsolecence. I already have a stack of electric components virtually worthless. Bad part is things don’t wear out like they used to. Landfill fodder.
Go to Youtube and do a search for “Hitler hd-dvd”
I too went the upconverting route for now with an OPPO 981. I'm glad I waited to see who would win this format battle. It looks grim for HD DVD right at present. Netflix has a huge customer base.
How is this forcing? Netflix needs to make a profit and chooses to save money by only having one type of format.
Why should they have all formats? Should they be forced to continue supporting the large laser disk format?
Besides it is HD DVD that is the most popular format for those movies where forcing things down throats appears most prominently.
Not a big surprise. Despite years of work, the HD-DVD folks had yet to come up with a burnable HD-DVD. So the only HD-DVDs you could have were ones with content on them
I think that’s part of why it has, indeed, failed. Computer makers were all going with Blu-Ray because customers would be able to use the enormous storage capacity of a Blu-Ray disk to back up their system in less than a billion disks.
I have netflix and bought a HDDVD player for Christmas w/ my new HDTV.
Don’t like it? Subscribe to Blockbuster’s home delivery service, the Netflix competitor.
Don’t like that idea either? Get an Apple TV and rent HD movies over the net with iTunes.
Nobody’s being forced to do anything.
We’ve been trying to figure out which format to get. Netflix has answered that question for us. We LOVE our Netflix account, so we’ll just get a Blu-Ray player.
You should still *just* be within your 90 day return policy if you act fast.
I'm not so much watching this setup, as I am gawking--it is so gorgeous. I'm still not used to the difference between regualar DVD and blu-ray.
I'm looking forward to LOTR being released--it'll be my first actual purchase of a disc.
Netflix has it right. They can't afford to go with a loser format and still keep thier prices under control.
If you have an xBox360, a Blu-Ray drive for it should be out soon.
Me, too!
Does this mean I’ll need three more new remotes to watch anything?
Soon I’ll need a room for the remotes alone.
Oh no! I love Netflix. This is terrible news.
It's only a matter of time. Then you're stuck with all the DVDs you bought, all the home movies you switched over from VHS to DVD and so on.
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