Re: Netflix goes Blu-ray

what about this
Beginning in early March, retailer Best Buy will begin officially recommending Blu-ray as best choice for high definition movies to their customer base. Since the beginning of the format war, Best Buy has silently stood on the sidelines providing both the Blu-ray and HD DVD format for consumers to choose. Current sales data now shows that Blu-ray is their choice, and the retailer will soon carry the official stance that Blu-ray is best high definition format.

Brian Dunn, Best Buy's president and chief operating officer commented, "Consumers have told us that they want us to help lead the way. We've listened to our customers, and we are responding. Best Buy will recommend Blu-ray as the preferred format. Our decision to shine a spotlight on Blu-ray Disc players and other Blu-ray products is a strong signal to our customers that we believe Blu-ray is the right format choice for them.

Best Buy will continue to stock a reduced amount of HD DVD players and movies, but the reduction in stock combined with the unified voice to support Blu-ray brings up questions as to how long those stocks will continued to be resupplied
god and who said mondays were the worst day of the week--well they are for HD-DUD...lol.lol.guffaw.guffaw

couple of insiders that work for best buy informed me sony actually paid best buy to push blu-ray just at the format war was starting.

just got this email from Netflix

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You're receiving this email because you have asked to receive high-definition movies in the HD DVD format. As you may have heard, most of the major movie studios have recently decided to release their high-definition movies exclusively in the Blu-ray format. In order to provide the best selection of high-definition titles for our members, we have decided to go exclusively with Blu-ray as well.

While we will continue to make our current selection of HD DVD titles available to you for the next several months, we will not be adding additional HD DVD titles or reordering replacements.

Toward the end of February, HD DVDs in your Saved Queue will automatically be changed to standard definition DVDs. Then toward the end of this year, all HD DVDs in your Queue will be changed to standard definition DVDs. Don't worry, we will contact you before this happens.

You can click here to change your format preferences.

We're sorry for any inconvenience. If you have any questions or need further assistance, please call us at 1 (888) 638-3549.

-The Netflix Team

Even though I'm not that mad about it. I did find it humorous that they feel the way to have the best selection is to eliminate two of the studios.

will thats game over for me, lol i use netflix to rent all of my hddvd's. thats sucks. i just recently got a ps3 so at least i can still rent blu rays on it. i like both formats, i like hddvd cause of dvd combo disc. Looks like the war will be over by the end of 2008.

this is the end-of course the outcome was inevitable

if i were toshiba,i would be launching the first sub $200 blu-ray players(just to save face) onto the market--come to think of it,if sony could do that,well that would be the real end of HD-DUD

and on the topic of paraversal---if they dont care that people want to watch their movies on sweet sweet blu-ray,why should people care about their movies?-especially since all the hd-dud movies that i want,,transformers,king kong,etc etc, i have downloaded for free from various peer to peer sites.and those i have not are readily available to buy from the chinese or polish blokes on the sunday market--2 for £10.of course you have to order these,as they are mkv files,but since i own a htpc this is brill

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[Post edited by mr_p-ness on Feb 11, 2008]

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just got this email from Netflix....

Wow I've been moved to becoming a thorn in Netflix's side.

Something everyone else should try, just sign up for your free Netflix trial,

and only select HD DVD titles for your movie queue.

How soon until Netflix gets the message that it's their customers have chosen them, and they are not going to be able to strong arm their customers into what THEY think is best for us.

well....all I can say is this.
I normally don't buy movies, i've picked up over 80 movies so far in HD DVD, but I have no plans on supporting Bluray.

My next move will be to an Apple TV...since I only watch most movies once or twice, its a much better move anyways at $5 a rental in HD.

to be honest---i dont think anybody cares what you do in regards to blu-ray------sore loser

I think the best thing Toshiba and Microsoft could do at this point is adopt and promote Blu-ray ASAP. That would help bring player prices down, make all of the movies available to everyone on 1 format, and for Microsoft it would at least help the 360 stay more up-to-date.