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- kiiwii, on 02/15/2008, -11/+266This is it! The final nail!
::waits for next nail:: - dibby1, on 02/15/2008, -7/+184This is HUGE news. Wal-mart is the biggest seller of DVDs... it's done.
- diadem2, on 02/15/2008, -14/+171*sigh* first the dreamcast, now this.
This is why I can't have nice things. - rmw132, on 02/15/2008, -5/+125Wow. Just a few months ago it was "wait until the $199 Chinese HD DVD player hits Wal-Mart...it will be unstoppable for HD DVD!"....and now....HD DVD is that roadkill you see every car run over on the highway...so disfigured, you can't even identify what it was anymore.
- inactive, on 02/15/2008, -29/+102Time to buy a PS3
- mrbad101, on 02/15/2008, -13/+82Sad. I really wanted HD-DVD to win. Only because I invested in the 360 HD-DVD addon, and I didn't want to buy a PS3 yet.
There is still a bright side, at least for 360 owners. The HD-DVD drive upconverts all DVD's -- and to be brutally honest, it does a really nice job. I was confused a few times my wife popped a regular DVD in, and i could have SWORE it was HD, until I took the disc out to see for myself.
Sorry HD-DVD, I tried to support you, but you guys really need to throw in the towel, and save a little face. - judicar, on 02/15/2008, -11/+72It's a bit funny seeing diggers celebrate the demise of HD DVD since one of the main reasons the major movie studios are moving to Blu-ray is because it offers better (for the movie industry) DRM options.
- 4LeggedtriPod, on 02/15/2008, -8/+69They also have quite possibly the ***** selection of DVDs as well.
- postaboy, on 02/15/2008, -0/+46The coffin is more nails than coffin at this point.
- diadem2, on 02/15/2008, -5/+43makes you wonder when microsoft will come out with a 360 blueray player to lessen ps3 sales
- DaveBG, on 02/15/2008, -22/+58I am going Blu-ray tomorrow.
- xXGeechXx, on 02/15/2008, -16/+50With each announcment like this, it makes me feel better about purchasing a PS3 after the warner announcment as opposed to waiting
- gfxgeek, on 11/13/2008, -12/+43How about linking to the original page from the WalMart blog like I submitted over an hour ago...http://www.digg.com/tech_news/Wal_Mart_Chooses_Blu ...
- Manuelmty, on 02/15/2008, -13/+41HD-DVD = Epic Fail ™
- diggdat, on 02/15/2008, -4/+29HD DVD - Stick a fork in it ...it is done.
- krische, on 02/15/2008, -3/+28Not to start a flamewar, but the PS3 does an excellent job of upconverting DVDs as well.
- Damian91, on 02/15/2008, -6/+29As long as they're still stocking Nilla Waffers I'm fine.
- chazuk, on 02/15/2008, -3/+25You just SAVED HD-DVD!
Well done. - Gudlyf, on 02/15/2008, -2/+24All the studios going to Blu-Ray was the lid being put on the HD-DVD coffin...
Netflix going Blu-Ray only was the last nail in the coffin...
Best Buy going Blu-Ray only was the last whack of the hammer on the last nail in the coffin...
Wal-Mart going Blu-Ray only is the superglue-like caulking put around the edges of the coffin lid.
Time for Toshiba to call it quits and let us bury this sucker. - ResonantToe, on 02/15/2008, -1/+23Ladies and Gentlemen, Michael Bay :P
- slvrbullet87, on 02/15/2008, -0/+21The 5 dollar rack kicks ass
- kingmanic, on 02/15/2008, -2/+23Both formats were identical in nearly every way. There wasn't a superior format just a different one. Don't delude yourself. The onyl differences were:
1- region codes
2- studio support
3- capacity
4- difference in 'extra' feature implementations
To 90% of customers all of those except studio support are gigantic 'Meh!' differences. Few if any care about not being able to watch EU/African content, few if any care that the earliest BD players won't have a few of the extras the earliest HDDVD players have (newer models BD players will enable these) and few if any care if the BD uses a higher bitrate. - xXGeechXx, on 02/15/2008, -6/+26If Microsoft doesn't come out with a blu-ray player for there Xbox 360 they are going to lose a lot of sales due to people buying a PS3 because its the cheapest of the blu-ray players...
- yohnstoppable, on 02/15/2008, -0/+19dreamcast did better than the sega saturn I had :(
- Fkb797, on 02/15/2008, -5/+22Once you lose Wallmart it's all over
- yohnstoppable, on 02/15/2008, -0/+17I shop at Walmart when I have no ***** clue where to find something.
- santasing, on 02/15/2008, -5/+22DRM is not exclusive to BR. HD DVD has it, digital downloads have it.
- maley, on 02/15/2008, -1/+17Stop buying the wrong products.
- chihpih, on 02/15/2008, -7/+23thats it, HD DVD is officially done. im glad i own a ps3 :)
maybe we should short sell toshibas stock now? - orangefly, on 02/15/2008, -0/+16i need to get a HD-DVD player to put on top of my laserdisc and betamax players....
- holymrack, on 02/15/2008, -5/+21This might also be what pushes high definition content further into the mainstream. Wal-Mart's customer base is such a giant portion of the market. With their inclusion of more HDTVs and now a decided format, I really think this will be a deciding factor on the format war.
- HeatVision, on 02/15/2008, -0/+15Once Warner Bros. went Blu, I can't believe anyone still thought HD DVD had a chance (and I own an HD DVD player).
- mrdoogee, on 02/15/2008, -3/+18Its not exactly like HD-DVD was released DRM free. Movie studios would have F'd us in the A no matter which format won.
- czimmerman, on 02/15/2008, -3/+17What are you talking about? Its the best Blu-ray player on the market currently! I bought my parents a Blu-ray player for Christmas (a Samsung model) and ended up returning it and getting them a PS3 because, as we all know, the PS3 is Sony's baby and its always going to work PERFECT with Sony's backed format.
- mywhitenoise, on 02/15/2008, -0/+13Wise words from a Jedi. I have no idea what the ***** you're talking about, but I trust you.
- jedi851508, on 02/15/2008, -1/+14Never put off until tomorrow that which you can postpone until the day after tomorrow. Do it then. Maybe.
- justice7, on 02/15/2008, -4/+17When will there be a BluRay player for the 360?
- controlguy, on 02/15/2008, -2/+15I shop there, and I'm from the northeast. Heck, I even have a graduate degree. Sometimes you just don't want to pay alot for the little things.
But don't take it from me, listen to Penn and Teller explain it:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vioWgolslm0&feature ... (1/3)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vz3_YSiAu8s&feature ... (2/3)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hvMym0KnDAQ&feature ... (3/3) - postaboy, on 02/15/2008, -1/+13Hey guys do you remember this at 2000+ diggs: Wal-Mart Names HD DVD the Winner
http://digg.com/hardware/Wal_Mart_Names_HD_DVD_the ...
Read the fanboy comments. Hilarious. - KMartSheriff, on 02/15/2008, -1/+13The difference is his PS3 won't burn down and need to be replaced 6 times.
- kingmanic, on 02/15/2008, -1/+131- Initial set up costs for pressing was cheaper, the rest was Toshiba subsidizing.
2- common HDDVD come back, only affects people who care about extras and bought early non upgradeable players
3- Unfortunate but again same as #2, limit people who actually care.
4- is nonsense as the features added only matter to the same group as #2 ( a small subset of a small subset)
5- is stupid. BD disks work. Where does the nightmare come in? for people circumventing it? HDDVD wasn't that much simpler.
6- HDDVD has the same revocation model. No difference. Also BD is more then sony.
7- If you order from Japan you are in luck as the N/A region is the same as the Japanese one. The EU one you are out of luck but truly how often is this applicable? - inactive, on 02/15/2008, -1/+13I wanna see a 5 dollar rack
- hipnerd, on 02/15/2008, -9/+20Why? The movie sucked.
- MScrip, on 02/15/2008, -0/+11Don't forget SegaCD... Night Trap FTW!
- chocobomog, on 02/15/2008, -1/+12Wal-mart is the biggest seller of DVDs, but not high definition media. Best Buy is by far the highest seller of HDM, Wal-mart is third after Amazon.
Wal-mart sells so many DVDs because they sell them for $5. They have a much harder time selling $30 HD-DVD discs comparatively.
Regardless, both Wal-mart and Best-Buy dropping HD-DVD this week means the death of HD-DVD is eminent. - kingmanic, on 02/15/2008, -0/+10If you plotted a chart with BD vs DVD you'll see BD mirror DVD in % of media sales. Still some time before digital downloads over takes phsyical media. Not this media generation. Your comment may be more apt the next go around.
- str1fe, on 02/15/2008, -0/+10Say HD-DVD out loud. Now say Blu-Ray out loud.
HD-DVD is comparatively quite a mouthful, no? I've always though that that's at least one reason Blu-Ray has done better, since a lot of people don't understand the differences as much as the rest of us. - inactive, on 02/15/2008, -3/+13"Enhance! Enhance! Enhance!"
Yeah, doesn't really work in real life. You can take away the distortion your HD tv creates when it trys to play 480p content, but you can't magically create crisp, 1080p content out of a 480p DVD. - mywhitenoise, on 02/15/2008, -1/+10They're the biggest retailer in the world. So most of the world is filled with rednecks?
I don't shop there, but I don't agree with your statement. - WhiskeyLemur, on 06/30/2009, -1/+10Same - it's the cheapest place to get the same damn shampoo and toilet paper that Target or grocery stores or whatever sell for 25% more. I wouldn't go there for electronics, furniture, clothes, and so on, but why should I pay more for basic stuff just so I can say "I got it at Tar-zhay?"
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