Today has been a really bad day for HD DVD...
1st Universal is no longer going to be a HD DVD Exclusive
http://www.thegamersthought.com/2008/02/breaking-news-egm-confirms-universals.html
2nd Netflix is dropping HD DVD
http://www.thegamersthought.com/2008/02/netflix-waves-goodbye-to-hd-dvd.html
3rd
Best Buy is suggesting Blu Ray over HD DVD
This has to be the death-nell for HD DVD, in 2008 Blu Ray has outsold HD DVD 76 to 24.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:HighDefSales.svg
so why in the Sony thread? Because I used to work at Best Buy and every HD tv, they try to push the High Def players, and now they will be talking Blu Ray exclusively. When I worked before, there were many people on the fence as to buying one format or another...wanting to wait it out. Now Best Buy will push hard on High Def format because they will try to sell over priced HDMI cables. So, all that to say if the US' biggest Electronic retailer is pushing Blu ray that is huge. Finally, the best blu ray player is the PS3 because it is easy to update the firmware with the Wifi. This is a huge boost to the sales of the PS3 hardware although it may not boost software much. It would be easy to imagine that for every 2 HDTVs sold at best buy, 1 blu ray player would be sold and many of them PS3s. Watch out when the US government switches to digital because they will really push HDTVs then and blu ray players (and therefore PS3s). Sorry for the long post!
