Wal-Mart to only sell Blu-ray DVDs

Yahoo News/REUTERS ^ | Feb. 15th 2008 | Reporting by Franklin Paul; editing by Phil Berlowitz

[theFIRMbss]

>A long time. People like physical ownership
>This sentiment is exactly what Bill Gates has said about the format wars, that Blu-Ray will be the last physical format "standard"

I agree with Bill.
I feel no attachment to
my stack of CDs.

It's much easier
to select from a screen list.
If content's the same--

commentary tracks
and all-- DVD's can go.
If downloads are fast.

[Mamzelle]

Netflix is phasing out. Frankly, I'm glad they did because it'll keep service costs down to stick to one format. It means better and faster and cheaper service.

The death-knell for HDDVD came when Warner Bros, with its huge library, endorsed bluray.

[Choose Ye This Day]

I know what’s going on. I watch what little TV I do on rabbit ears.

My guess is that reception up here in the mountains will be even worse with the concerter boxes after February 2009.

[ARA]

I bought the Take TV Last week... I really like it. The built it remote is a little flimsy but it sure is better than hooking up my computer to the tv... I haven’t taken the step to build an htpc but that will come and this Take Tv is a nice alternate to that for now...

Ara

[discostu]

It’s not attachment, it’s getting something for your purchase. The masses aren’t yet really comfortable with getting the 1s and 0s on their own piece of hardware re-arranged for their purchase. One of these days sure, but not yet.

Then of course there’s the fast thing. At 50GB there’s nothing fast about downloading a blu-ray worth of data.

[RayChuang88]

Between:

1) Wal-Mart going Blu-ray exclusive starting this summer for sales.
2) Best Buy favoring Blu-ray.
3) NetFlix dropping HD-DVD.
4) Time Warner going Blu-ray exclusive by this summer.
5) Both Universal and Paramount seriously looking at Blu-ray releases.
6) New, lower-cost chipsets for Blu-ray players that will dramatically cut the cost of players.

...It's small wonder why HD-DVD will soon be gone.

[El Conservador]

What???

HD-DVD sucks bong water!!!

Transfer rate, CAPACITY, image resolution...

[Slapshot68]

“I have no cable, nor am I going to spend anything on an upgrade box. “

you won’t have to...the gubmint will be footing the bill for your box.