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Reality sets in and now I am a Blu boy and very excited that there will be one format VERY shortly.

IT'S OVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WOOHOO!
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I quote airplane... "He's coming right at us... Aaaahhhh!" Engadget being Steve McCroskey.]]>Feb 15th 2008 10:16AMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2008/02/15/poll-is-your-wal-mart-scaling-back-its-hd-dvd-player-lineup/http://www.engadgethd.com/2008/02/15/poll-is-your-wal-mart-scaling-back-its-hd-dvd-player-lineup/Feb 15th 2008 10:34AMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2008/02/15/poll-is-your-wal-mart-scaling-back-its-hd-dvd-player-lineup/http://www.engadgethd.com/2008/02/15/poll-is-your-wal-mart-scaling-back-its-hd-dvd-player-lineup/
The HD-DVD sales drive at Wal-Mart was just a one day profit grab and nothing else. I haven't ever seen a RCA or Venturer HD-DVD player at Wal-Mart either.

I could go drive around and check, I'm in the land of endless Wal-Marts. Within a half hour drive there are 18 Wal-Marts I could go to.]]>Feb 15th 2008 11:13AMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2008/02/15/poll-is-your-wal-mart-scaling-back-its-hd-dvd-player-lineup/http://www.engadgethd.com/2008/02/15/poll-is-your-wal-mart-scaling-back-its-hd-dvd-player-lineup/
Things have gone from bad to worse for HD DVD in the space of one week.

Wal-Mart announced Friday morning that it, too, has chosen a side in the battle for high-definition video supremacy: by June it will only stock Blu-ray Disc players.

A buyer in Wal-Mart's video division wrote this morning on her Wal-Mart Checkout blog that the retail giant had made the decision following Netflix and Best Buy's high-profile announcements that they will exclusively stock Blu-ray products.

Wrote Susan Chronister of Wal-Mart: "By June Wal-Mart will only be carrying Blu-ray movies and hardware machines, and of course standard-def movies, DVD players, and up-convert players."

"So," she continues, not mincing words, "if you bought the HD (DVD) player like me, I'd retire it to the bedroom, kid's playroom, or give it to your parents to play their John Wayne standard-def movies, and make space for a BD player..."

That might be the best option at this point, as the dominoes keep falling in Blu-ray's favor. While Netflix and Best Buy were pretty damning evidence that the end was near, now it's glaringly obvious: it's over for HD DVD. Now, that doesn't necessarily mean that consumers will automatically start buying Blu-ray players. As mentioned many times before here, prices will have to continue to fall on both Blu-ray players and packaged media for there to be any sort of mainstream adoption of the format.

There are rumors that Toshiba might soon be declaring defeat: The Hollywood Reporter has sources telling it that Toshiba, the main backer of the HD DVD, might drop its allegiance with the format in the next few weeks.

http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9873029-7.html

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well i'm military and I got stationed somewhere more small-town (still within range of civilization, but can only get local HD through dish network.. ABC, NBC, Fox, and CBS only... no upn or cw)

But we have walmart. Thats it. I had never shopped there until now, but this small town is awesome, and walmart is it. Its a couple blocks away, with nothing else of its type for miles, unless you wanna drive over an hour to bestbuy or circuit city.

Its convenient for the locations that have no other choice, and its fine for what it is. However, you do learn to do alot of electronics shopping online. But you get better prices at amazon anyway. (Plus, they didn't have my bravia, but they're great for movies and certain players)]]>Feb 15th 2008 11:36AMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2008/02/15/poll-is-your-wal-mart-scaling-back-its-hd-dvd-player-lineup/http://www.engadgethd.com/2008/02/15/poll-is-your-wal-mart-scaling-back-its-hd-dvd-player-lineup/until the official white flag is raised, let's put news like this in the who cares category? i liked hd-dvd, but let's bury the dead horse & report the stuff we care about. otherwise, the reporting turns into an 08 BR fanboy victory lap.]]>Feb 15th 2008 11:38AMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2008/02/15/poll-is-your-wal-mart-scaling-back-its-hd-dvd-player-lineup/http://www.engadgethd.com/2008/02/15/poll-is-your-wal-mart-scaling-back-its-hd-dvd-player-lineup/
Or "My walmart never carried HD-DVD".
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I rooted for HD-DVD, but a widespread, rapidly adopted format is critical for hi-def video to escape the niche graveyard. Sorry format partisans, but to accomplish that widespread adoption, HD-DVD needs to have a high profile public death.]]>Feb 15th 2008 1:34PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2008/02/15/poll-is-your-wal-mart-scaling-back-its-hd-dvd-player-lineup/http://www.engadgethd.com/2008/02/15/poll-is-your-wal-mart-scaling-back-its-hd-dvd-player-lineup/
I have never seen an HD DVD standalone player in that store, and its not from a lack of not looking either.]]>Feb 16th 2008 5:33AM