What are your toughts? a winning step for sony, or it's still to early to say? personally i've always been supporting BR and thinking it would win, even tought i do not own any HD players...
I think its still to early to say whats better and what will win. i am more drawn towards HD-DVD and even though blockbuster chooses Blue Ray i don't think its going to help or hinder the format nor do i think it will affect the HD dvd format
To me, this isn't as big a death blow as it sounds. Let's not forget that Blockbuster was super late when it came to carrying the original DVD format in the late 1990's in favor of VHS tapes. Blockbuster is big, but the rental industry is made up of several other large players (ie: Netflix, Hollywood Video, etc) so don't go selling off your HD-DVD player just yet.
Yeah who really goes to blockbuster anyway? They censor movies, the select sucks and Hollywood video/Netflix keep taking out bigger and bigger chucks of the rental market. If anything there might be a backlash toward blockbuster for ditching HD-DVD Both Formats have good movies and the edge does favor blu ray just a little but I think in 5-6 years if not sooner both formats will be dead when we move to Holograph Discs.
Pretty sure you can. Yeah, in fact, I saw a few at Tsutaya (Japanese Blockbuster for the most part... same colors anyway).
Oh, and errr... let's not forget one thing... THE WORLD IS BIGGER THAN AMERICA. There. No blockbuster within a 1000 km from where I live.
I think it will pretty much go no where until TV series and multiple movies (Such as star wars) are started to be produced on one blu-ray disc at a decent price. Hell, I have a PS3 and I see no reason to buy blu-ray movies until that happends.
Apparently, this applies to stores that carry neither right now, and those that do support HDDVD right now still will, in addition to the online store still supporting HDDVD
this just reeks of some kind of backroom agreement giving special pricing to bluray and then this exclusivity from blockbuster. Blockbuster has been sliding down the relevance pole ever since netflix beat them online. It just seems like they did this to make headlines. "Hey, we're blockbuster. We think we're still relevant, so look what we did." They are a company providing movies for rental, so you'd think it would be in their best interest to stock the movies people want to watch, regardless of if they're on different formats.
