Death blow to HD-DVD? Target chooses Blu-Ray
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For Blu-Ray fanboys that have been looking for the "stick a fork in them because they’re done" sign, your time may have come. Target has just announced that it will sell only Blu-Ray players in its stores this holiday season. The move begins in October with Target’s sale and promotion of Sony’s BDP-S300, which will run you about $500. This is hot on the heels of Blockbuster, who earlier dubbed Blu-Ray its NexGen format of choice. Will this the be move that sends HD-DVD to the BetaMax and LaserDisc graveyard? We personally use both, but what do you prefer?
which do I use? Neither. Too cheap to buy a player since I don’t want something that’s going to be rendered obsolete in the near future. I guess Blu-Ray since I’m going to get one of them thar PS3s someday too.
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yeah i choose neither too, I will keep renting HD movies on my xbox live and avoid the whole mess. Eventually I hope to either see xbox with more HD movies or AppleTV - either would work for me and would be my choice over a player with loose disks.
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Both suck, I don’t understand why they had to develope two different types of high definition formats.
Thank god I have a Playstation 3 AND an Xbox 360 otherwise I wouldn’t of had bought either of them..
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I can care less now what Sony gets with this store chains suckas. I have a HD DVD player with my xbox 360.
All i care right now is that next week the movie “300″ is coming out on hd dvd format, and its the only thing it matters.
Blue-Ray’s in time would get blue balls, and HD DVD would get the gir.
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You should rerun this story as it was false. Target still plans on providing HD-DVD. Engadget has the correct story.
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Blu-Ray ALL DAY!!!!
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Like DanITman said, at the very least the story is misleading.
Sony bought out an end cap for the season and thats about it. The HD camp was quick to point out that X-Box drives will still be in the stores and both still availible online. Movies in both formats will still be availble in store and online.
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I personally don’t see the need for a hd format on a disk when the logical step would have been digital (hdd) as mention before. But I guess if I had to choose Blu-ray I like sony’s design better.
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HD-DVD it my choice. It can run standard DVD’s so its not obsolete in my house which has a lot of DVD’s. BluRay no thx.
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You know,
I wish this BR vs. HDDVD would produce a winner already. I’m not dropping money on either format until there’s a clear winner. By all accounts BR is technically the better format (long term) but it a looser on the basis of:
1. It’s made by Sony. (remember the rootkit fiasco?) and…
2. The DRM on HD-DVD allows for a managed copy BR doesn’t (last I heard.)
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Here’s to The Simpson’s Movie on Blu-Ray this November!
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Didnt Blockbuster opt for BlueRay over HD-DVD too?
So HD-DVD is now the BetaMax of the hi-res DVD’s.
—* Bill
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ppcmd they both can play standard dvd
i choose online delivery rather that these.
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Sigh…
Another day, another inaccurate BGR story.
Keep ‘em coming.
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I hope that this is wrong. HD-DVD all the way. I hope Sony and their blu-ray crash and burn while the playstation sinks into oblivion!
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Neither! I’ll wait till the price is reasonable and then buy whichever format still exist. Like it was said earlier, two formats is just dumb. Fanboys need to get a life. Lets get a standard HD format already.
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im getting the 300 on blu ray
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Blu-ray all the way. i have a ps3 and i have a few blu ray movies and they look incredible. I wouldnt have either if it wasnt for the ps3, but i am pulling for sony just because i feel they ahve had a tough string of things recently and need a win on their hands. I hope ps3 and blu-ray do incredably well this holiday season.
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How can you equate LaserDiscs with Beta tape. Two different genres and two different things. LaserDisc was not a flop as Beta was. It was just a precursor to DVD. It had it’s time and place. But was never pushed aside by another format. I still have a top-of-line Pioneer LD player and it gives about the same that I get from DVD. Including Optical out for multichannel audio.
If there is a video format graveyard? Then isn’t it the DVD that is heading for it too? And what about VHS?
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I avoid shopping target 100% of the time beings they do not support our vets over homosexuals and/or Sony also gets avoided for just plain ignorance Trying to pull a microsoft on everyone with the blue ray like they did back with the CD compact disc . NO one company should have control over any one product with 100% control . This is why multiple format players is the publics best choice , Everyone should boycott both these formats and HDTV’s altogether .. Until a organization can develope a multi format player that can play every format . I am not rebuying all my media all over again for the 3rd time .. I will keep right on using what I have until I die . This useless buying of Useless products that nobody needs is the most childish thing Ive the general public argue over since beta vs Vhs or 8 track vs cassette . it’s just stupid !!
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