Wal-Mart Votes For Blue-Ray Exclusively
Wal-Mart has decided to join Best Buy. The company officially confirmed it will promote the Blue-Ray format, exclusively. The biggest retailer, has started phasing out HD-DVD products and expects to finish the rearrangements by June. This move is probably the straw that broke the camel’s back and we’re expecting Toshiba to announce the death of the HD-DVD format in the upcoming weeks. Wal-Mart’s decision is second to Netflix and Best Buy, that already announced the preferment of Blue-Ray products, believing they are the real winners. I guess we shall see more retailers joining this act, making it unanimously.
Update: Sooner than we’ve expected, Toshiba is officially shutting down its HD-DVD production and closing the Aomori Prefecture perimeter in Japan. A statement is expected to be given soon.
[via slashgear]
February 19th, 2008 at 9:18 am
[...] surrender. I guess the straw that broke the camel’s back was recent farewell statement from Wal-Mart, joining early declarations from Best Buy, Netflix and Warner. As for the rival, Toshiba has no [...]