HD DVD is more popular on Netflix

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zik @ Oct 4th 2007 5:25PM

@Ben Drawbaugh

"One might argue that people are more likely to buy an inexpensive HD DVD player and rent movies"

But didn't Blockbuster say that they were going Blu-ray exclusive because more folks were renting Blu-ray disks than HD-DVD's? Either Blockbuster was bushitting us or your theory here is wrong.

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Mike @ Oct 4th 2007 5:34PM

"Either Blockbuster was bushitting [sp] us or your theory here is wrong."

...Or perhaps the story has changed since Blockbuster made that announcement. As part of their press release that day, they did mention that their decision was subject to change depending on consumer demands.

I applaud them for that; I think by picking a format which, at the time, was clearly winning, they helped speed along the format war and help it end quicker. Too bad Paramount had to ruin all that by throwing a wrench into the works. I like Blu-ray, but at this point, just get the damn war over already, I don't really care much who wins anymore.

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Kevin Murphy @ Oct 4th 2007 6:07PM

@zk

As I pointed out in the post RIGHT above yours, Blockbuster's retail stores ALSO RENT VIDEO GAMES, so they are FAR more likely to get PS3 owners in their stores than either their online store (which still carries HD DVD) or Netflix. Or any other retail DVD rental place, for that matter.

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Printice @ Oct 8th 2007 12:42PM

blockbuster always had a crappy hd-dvd section, even when they "supported" hd-dvd it was never in stock or they wouldnt even bother ordering hd-dvd versions of the movie. ive owned hd-dvd since last year and i rented @ both blockbuster online and in their stores, online all of their hd-dvds always had a long wait (they still support hd-dvd online however it takes forever to get a copy that way as well) and in the stores while they were getting new movies on blu-ray they would get like one new hd-dvd every other month (roughly) so all of those stats about their customers not being intrested in hd-dvd are b.s. because they never really supported the format well... the only reason i still rent from them is because of the free game rentals in stores. Netflix on the other hand has excellent support of hd-dvd, every movie i picked they had copies of it and it was shipped, even new releases, so there you have it netflix actually supports hd-dvd, blockbuster never did (properly)

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