Actually, this retraction, which doesn't really look like a retraction as far as I can tell, is less important than the actual news. Even if it isn't true, more than a few people heard about the Target news, and it certainly didn't benefit the HD-DVD camp in anyway. The more bad news for HD-DVD, the more good news for Blu-Ray.
In any case, the news is still the same as I interpreted it. Blu-Ray will have the endcap and Target will sell only the Sony standalone player (and with regards to at least one of these things Target contacted Sony, not the other way around, I think the latter).
HD-DVD is dying. The only thing HD-DVD can hope for is to die slowly.
We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half full of cocaine, a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers…Also a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of beer, a pint of raw ether and two dozen amyls. The only thing that really worried me was the ether. There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge. –Raoul Duke
It is hard to shed anything but crocodile tears over White House speechwriter Patrick Buchanan's tragic analysis of the Nixon debacle. "It's like Sisyphus," he said. "We rolled the rock all the way up the mountain...and it rolled right back down on us...." Neither Sisyphus nor the commander of the Light Brigade nor Pat Buchanan had the time or any real inclination to question what they were doing...a martyr, to the bitter end, to a "flawed" cause and a narrow, atavistic concept of conservative politics that has done more damage to itself and the country in less than six years than its liberal enemies could have done in two or three decades. -Hunter S. Thompson
