I think this is a missed opportunity for Netflix to deliver good value to its share holders by hood winking Hd Dvd owners/renters. Blockbuster Video can now sit back and watch its online membership grow by at least 100 to 200k within 90 days once word gets out that they are the only act in town offering Hd Dvds for rent. Couple this fact with the eventual flood of inexpensive Hd Dvd players into the sales channel and you a perfect storm of sorts. The cost of entry into the Hd realm is the key for mass acceptance and a $50 Hd player, along with cheap online rentals via Blockbuster or Netflix once they wake up and smell the ro$e$ @4.99-19.99/monthly and you have a nice revenue stream for now and the foreseeable future. Heck, even if one buys a $50 player and rents exclusively for a year, they still would spend less than the outright purchase of a comparable Blu Disk Player. This could be the Battle cry Toshiba needs to pick some back door royalty dollars and as a result wake up the sleeping giant Walmart into back channelling those Millions of Hd movies it has warehoused to Blockbuster with Warner Bros being the sole supplier of its replenishment. Here we go again, Go Hd, Go!!
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andy @ Feb 26th 2008 2:20PM
They're getting to be a pain in my ass. So now you have to figure out which ones were HDDVD and manually re-request hddvd? gay.
Michael @ Feb 26th 2008 2:23PM
Uh... no. You just don't get them on HD DVD. Period. They are going to stop offering HD DVD.
andy @ Feb 26th 2008 2:29PM
I thought they were going to stop buying, but circulate until the current stock was depleted. That's what my email said anyway.
If it's a sale instead, I'm in.
worldbfree4me @ Feb 26th 2008 3:54PM
I think this is a missed opportunity for Netflix to deliver good value to its share holders by hood winking Hd Dvd owners/renters. Blockbuster Video can now sit back and watch its online membership grow by at least 100 to 200k within 90 days once word gets out that they are the only act in town offering Hd Dvds for rent. Couple this fact with the eventual flood of inexpensive Hd Dvd players into the sales channel and you a perfect storm of sorts. The cost of entry into the Hd realm is the key for mass acceptance and a $50 Hd player, along with cheap online rentals via Blockbuster or Netflix once they wake up and smell the ro$e$ @4.99-19.99/monthly and you have a nice revenue stream for now and the foreseeable future. Heck, even if one buys a $50 player and rents exclusively for a year, they still would spend less than the outright purchase of a comparable Blu Disk Player. This could be the Battle cry Toshiba needs to pick some back door royalty dollars and as a result wake up the sleeping giant Walmart into back channelling those Millions of Hd movies it has warehoused to Blockbuster with Warner Bros being the sole supplier of its replenishment. Here we go again, Go Hd, Go!!
TVGenius @ Feb 27th 2008 10:01AM
It might be an issue of them not replacing lost or broken discs, meaning that certain titles may not be available on HD DVD sooner than others.