With HD DVD, things are just going from
bad, to
really bad, to
worse, to
car-crash-you-can't-stop-looking-at. You can file this one under that latter category, as
Wal-Mart has officially announced its intentions to stop
stocking HD DVD players and movies by June. According to reports, the retailer came to the decision after
Netflix and
Best Buy made announcements concerning their position in the HD format war. Susan Chronister of Wal-Mart wrote on the company's blog, "By June Wal-Mart will only be carrying Blu-ray movies and hardware machines, and of course standard-def movies, DVD players, and up-convert players." Susan went on to deliver what we consider a
total burn by adding, "if you bought the HD [DVD] player like me, I'd retire it to the bedroom, kid's playroom, or give it to your parents to play their John Wayne standard-def movies, and make space for a BD player." Look, we're not gonna say that this is it for HD DVD, but... uh, it doesn't look real great.
[Thanks to everyone who sent this in]
posted Feb 15th 2008 11:39AM
Now this is the beginning of the end.
I wonder what amusing idiocy Nfinity and Truth Teller have spouted about Walmart in the past. About how it was going to win the war for HD DVD, how cheap HD DVD players would turn everything around etc.
I guess Nfinity will just have to fold Walmart into his fantasy "paid off" conspiracy which must include most of America at this point.
Um, I think this is pretty much the end of the end!
This is basically a paste of a previous post I made earlier. I am too lazy to come up with something new to post. I do however, wonder if Nfinity and TT and pals will say Wallmart does not matter. Please Toshiba....just GIVE UP so we can go after DVD put Chumpvision players out to pasture right next to HD_DEAD.
I have been reading the Tree Stooges posts for a better part of a year now. I only recently started posting though. TT and Nfinity bring a smile to my face with every post they make.
Please for the love of the FSM DO NOT STOP! You guys crack me up and this sites posts would be pretty boring if it were not for TT, Nfinity and HD something I cannot remember his name.
I LOVE trolls on every site I go to, it makes things fun and more entertaining for me...especially at work. I do not understand why some sites "get off" on banning people left and right (Kotaku) over some silly BANTER. R we not adults here? Can we not take other peoples words with a grain of salt instead of getting our panties in a bunch?
When Toshiba throws in the towel (yeah thats right I said WHEN) on HD_DEAD, I think it would be a nice gesture to either give discounts on HD_DEAD trade-ins and/or make thier 1st Blu-ray players combo players.
I know Toshiba is bleeding money everyday and that they cannot continue in this much longer. I know that giving these discounts or trade-ins will rape thier treasury even more....but it would go a long way in showing that they give a shit about the 1 million early adopters that supported them.
Who knows what they will do, I only hope that they do it quickly so that I can see the BIG GUNS release on Blu.
See? This post was boring...more banter please.
Ha HAH HD_DEAD'ers...you picked the WRONG format and you have lost $$$!!! I picked the right one and yooouuuu dident.
Seriously, What's next?
Con-Edison and PSEG decide to stop allowing HD-DVD players to pull power off the grid?
LOL.
wow, someone's great with photoshop...did you get this one from blu-ray?
Someone's bitter...
One by one, HD DVD support is gone, Blu-ray has no gain, but it gains something important: exclusivity.
Long Live BD
Toshiba's PR: they will use the usual template and just put "Walmart" in it.
Penton-Man was bang on the money again. So long and thanks for all the fish.
But, wait. Isn't Toshiba claiming that HD DVD is ok for upconversion. So in theory they should still be socking the players. LOL.
PWNED....... again for the 37th time this week alone.
Trolling for the 37th this time this week...
I can't wait for this war to be over if not for anything to else, to get rid of all the Blu-ray trolls and Truth Teller and company.
@ ZARGON
Touche... but what the hell else is there to do on ENGADGET HD format war posts? It's been a death watch since the Warner announcement.
What happened to that stalement from the previous story?? lol
Yeah!
Confirmation here:
http://money.cnn.com/2008/02/15/technology/wal-mart_blu-ray/index.htm?postversion=2008021511
Universal & Paramount/Dreamworks are you paying attention yet. Expect other retailers to follow suit. It only takes one to start the chain reaction.
errrrr meant to write stalemate lol
"stalemate statement"
OK, I hate to say it, but I TOLD YOU SO!!!
As I've been saying for weeks now, since the hold out studios sat on their asses about going Blu, the retailers stepped in and finished this stupid war.
Cue Nfinity and Truth Teller:
"Bwhahahaha...this means nothing considering Big Lots STILL HAVE HD DVD!! The war isn't over!"
Hey, I LOVE Big Lots!!
How clever and original.
Phew thank god I never bought one of them...guess wait for a PS3 pricedrop and I will snag myself a bluray player :)
http://www.wiinjamod.com
Well, I'm not investing in Blu-Ray no matter what. It's an inferior format...I'll just finally hook my Media Center PC to my TV and enjoy all my HD Downloads and HD VoD. No one is a winner here.
Inferior to what? Hmm, more capacity than HD DVD, more studio support, more pc drives/burners. Yeah, that's really inferior, just like DVDs are inferior to Laserdisc. Those high quality HD downloads and HD VoD sure have better quality don't they?
Dam Walmart! and just before the influx of Chinese HD DVD-players would turn this whole thing around!
Game over man!
Game over!
This is the end.
Nfinity and Truth teller please spin this.
The Official NFinity / Truth Teller impersonation thread!! I'll start us off...
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She said that they would continue to sell up-converting DVD players. Everybody but the game console poopy head BD kiddies know that the A30 is the best up-converting DVD Player. She's secretly telling us all that WalMart is REALLY going to be supporting HDVD exclusively! It's pathetic that all you stupid ps3 kiddie booger poop people can't see that!
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"Mock On!"
Nfinity
This is just another Sony dirty trick. They just paid off Walmart. You will see next month HD-DVD is going to have a huge comeback. Amazon is so much bigger than Walmart.
"Brick and Mortar stores don't matter. Only Amazon. LMAO"
- Truth Teller.
There are more nails than wood on this coffin.
it started to runs out of space for new nails
I think there's room for 2 more nails, the remaining studios will finally seal the deal.
We should stop nailing the coffin.
Maybe just another brick in the wall (of the HD-DVD mausoleum)?
They actually just took the old coffin and dropped it into a brand new coffin to make room for more nails.
Hah, but what about HD-DVD's big comeback and excellent sales? LMAO!
Well as usual a blog (or similar) gets elevated to a position of Holy Gospel.
Hilarious.
Naturally none of the Blu-ray fanboys want to actually look at what was said.
She says Walmart will continue to stock "upconverting DVD players".
Which, interestingly enough, is exactly the line Toshiba have been taking recently.
Anyhoo, carry on pulling each other off pretending HD DVD has gone away......
Is the the best you can do. The said they are not selling HD-DVD players not that they will be rebranding HD-DVD players are upconverting DVD players. They are also not stocking HD-DVD movies.
It is over.
Now move out of your mother's basement and get a girlfriend.
HA!!! See, told ya!
you sir are an idiot.
http://money.cnn.com/2008/02/15/technology/wal-mart_blu-ray/index.htm?postversion=2008021511
It's Official! GET OVER IT!
Some of us think a "holy gospel" has just as much merit as a blog, so that dig holds very little water with those of us who don't believe in what we consider fairy stories. To each his own, of course.
Of course, I'm curious... are you the real Truth Teller? This seems awfully close to the prediction made earlier, and I can't believe the real Truth Teller wouldn't have actually read the posted comments before voicing his own...
TruthTeller aka Dave: "Walmart will continue to stock 'upconverting DVD players'"
Yup, ok Dave. I guess an HD-DVD player with no
HD-DVD software will just be a upconverting DVD
player. True enough. Walmart may stock those.
Great. A really good point there.?.
Now Dave, just how does this Walamrt news give
you any encouragement HD-DVD isn't going away?
Oh, wait. That's a rational question. You
only like to respond with flame bait as
evidenced by your 2/14/08 quote:
"But it is fun taking the pi$$ out of the PS3 console
kiddies and watching them get all puffed up & indignant
over not beng taken seriously as a/v enthuisiasts"
Dave, I don't take you seriously as an a/v enthuisiast.
Do you even watch HD movies? Or is it just the lulz?
@ Geoffrey
Of course I'm the real TruthTeller you pathetic PS3 gameboy kiddie.
I'm . . .
I'm . . .
I'm JUST HAVING A NERVOUS BREAKDOWN !
Yeeeeeaaaaaaahhhhhhhh my world is collapsing! ! !
This is worse than the day Toshiba was caught
selling submarine secrets to the Russians.
HD-DVD is melting . . . melting . . . melting . . .
TT, now you're just being foolish. HD-DVD as a disc format is dead. Yes, the players can be rebranded as upsampling but HD-DVD discs will not be sold there so the format is dead. Just deal with it and stop trying to spin things. Its just over lets all move on.
Seriously Guys! It's not only time to move on from HD-DVD, but to move on from Truth Teller and Nfinity as well. Those two pawn peddling clowns are as obsolete and irrelevant as the format they keep blindly pushing.
Besides, we have more important things to discuss at this point. We could be talking about 1080p high bit-rate transfers, uncompressed soundtracks, and new and excited players from MANY manufacturers.
Seriously, ENGADGET HD, et. al. should now start BD vs DVD sales comparisons. That's were the real battle lies now.
Wow - I thought I knew what the word "douchebag" meant, but having read Truth Teller's posts I have a whole new understanding of the word.