Ferrari Mailing List: OT: Blu Ray looks to win format war

[Fellippe Galletta (fellippe.galletta]

A friend sent me this:

"Looking to buy a HD-DVD player?

 DON'T!

Looks like the end might be near for HD-DVD. Wal Mart just announced that
they will dump HD-DVD and stock Blu-Ray discs only, following the footsteps
of Best Buy & Netflix. Rumor also had it that Toshiba is ready to write-off
HD-DVD citing its failure. Basically, when the world's biggest retail corp.
and those nation-wide electronic stores stop carrying your product --- both
the hardware & software are doomed. Blu-Ray is likely to win this HD-format
war.

For those who bought a HD-DVD player...well, consider it as a higher-grade
DVD (regular DVD) player then. Meanwhile regular DVD machines lives on and
with some selling as low as $25.00 along with a huge selection of software,
looks like it will be here for quite a while."

FG