Blockbuster to favor Blu-ray over HD-DVD

[DPyro]

Blu-ray is region locked but is different than DVD.
For example:

A/1 North America, Central America, South America, Japan, North Korea, South Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Southeast Asia.

B/2 Europe, Greenland, French territories, Middle East, Africa, Australia and New Zealand.

C/3 India, Nepal, Mainland China, Russia, Central and South Asia.

[F9zDark]

This, aside from the sales figures, is the first real world evidence that HD-DVD is losing the war. Now maybe the HD-DVD fanboys who blurt out $#@! like "Blu-Ray is the next Betamax" will clearly see that HD-DVD is losing.

Thank you Blockbuster. Format wars only hurt consumers in the end and hopefully, other companies will start to remove HD-DVD from their shelves as well. So this war can be over by Christmas.

[iniquitous_beast]

I wonder if we'll see an xbox360 expansion in a few years that plays blu-ray movies.

[Elven6]

Just because someone stocks them dosen't mean people will rent them. Besides they still said they will carry HD DVD's aswell, I live in Canada and my Blockbuster carried both before this was even announced.

[mnuhaily22]

Blu-ray is region locked but is different than DVD.
For example:

A/1 North America, Central America, South America, Japan, North Korea, South Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Southeast Asia.

B/2 Europe, Greenland, French territories, Middle East, Africa, Australia and New Zealand.

C/3 India, Nepal, Mainland China, Russia, Central and South Asia.

Does that apply to games??? Cause I heard games are region free...

[Shadowblind]

:rofl:

People en masse are stupid, right F9z?

I'll stick with DVD, heck with HD-DVD and Bluray! :rofl:

[wolfpack]

personally im not going to get hd-dvd or blu-ray because of the fact that theres a movie war going on right now on the formats, when one side wins, then ill start buying the next gen "dvd's" but for now ill sit aside and watch this one out. but if blockbuster supported both hd-dvd and blu-ray, theyd make more sales(in my opinion) because theyd be supporting a wide variety of formats. i dunno im just stating whats on my mind right now, i could be wrong but i dont care, this war is just kinda silly to me

[Basil Zero]

Forget movies on HD-DVD and blu-ray, I just want some games

Movies can stay on DVDs thank you.

[Shadowblind]

Forget movies on HD-DVD and blu-ray, I just want some games

Movies can stay on DVDs thank you.

Words of wisdom you have spoken

[F9zDark]

Forget movies on HD-DVD and blu-ray, I just want some games

Movies can stay on DVDs thank you.

Do you own an HDTV? If not then this line of thought is applicable at least to your situation. But considering that HDTVs are gaining in popularity, people aren't gonna want to watch SD movies on them.

I know I wouldn't.