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Originally Posted by Bobblehead
No, but when a major retailer does something like this because they feel blu-ray is too expensive then it can't be a good thing for blu-ray.
This thread was started with the announcement that Blockbuster wasn't going to carry HD-DVD movies. That turned out not to be true.
And Walmart is selling some HD-DVD players for less than $100. There has been a lot of press about HD-DVD lately, what with Paramount and Dreamworks going HD-DVD exclusive, sub $100 HD-DVD deals, K-mart not stocking Blu-ray. There hasn't been much positive Blu-ray news lately. I while people buying a PS3 are definitely using them as blu-ray players, I'm not sure how many people going out and looking for a high-def player are considering a PS3. That's something Sony should leverage more in their advertising.
I don't own either format (yet). I'm just watching what is going on.
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Paramount was given $150 million to drop BR-D. "That makes sense that your format is being outsold by the competition so you fork out a huge sum of money to try and counted some of those sales. How are you running a viable business in doing so?
K-Mart is not dropping BR-D at all. BluRay will be making an advertising push (considering the number of movies coming only to BR-D recently and soon) and will get stronger into the 4th quarter. HD-DVD has had to drop their pants just to try and get a head start, but without the huge titles (Shrek aside) and when all the HD-A2's are gone where will HD-DVD be? $300 machines that don't play a third of the movies out there. Infact HD-DVD has been doing themselves a number of disfavours in anouncing exclusive titles which are not actualy coming, namely Speilberg films. Funny that the first and only Speilberg film coming out before x-mas is exclusive to BluRay, coming from Sony. The fact that there is not a single other of his films coming out shows this as a test in the waters of BluRay and the lack of anything on HD-DVD doesn't show any confidence in that format.
Of course right now the majority of BR-D players out there are PS3's. Trying to use that argument is rediculous as well because Microsoft would be touting how many HD-DVD players are out if they actualy built them into every Xbox360. Instead you have to pay more to get HD and then it's not as good as the PS3's BR-D player in comparrison to a stand-alone unit. The HD-A2 firesale is a move to further boost the stand-alone HD player numbers which to Toshiba is good in the eyes of retailers. Sony will counter with their own deal soon enough.
Also, trying to put down BR-D because it's Sony is as stupid as supporting HD-DVD because it's not. You are supporting Microsoft over Sony, which makes either argument mute.