format war

11.10.09

More Bad News For Your HD-DVD Player

Best Buy and Netflix become the two latest companies to throw HD-DVD under the bus in favor of Blu-ray. How should HD-DVD compensate consumers?
By John Mahoney Posted 02.11.2008 at 6:39 pm 9 Comments

As we reported from CES, HD-DVD's death knell as a viable high-definition disc format began to ring loudly when Warner Bros., one of the format's largest major supporters, announced that they would move exclusively to Blu-ray in early 2008. Today, Netflix and Best Buy also declared HD-DVD dead to them—the former will completely phase them out of its rental business, and the latter will now exclusively recommend Blu-ray players to its customers.

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