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Stores will stock only Blu-ray disks after they outsold rival by 10-to-1
Woolworths stores will stock only Blu-ray high-definition movies from March in the latest setback for the rival HD-DVD format.
The company says Blu-ray outsold HD-DVD movies by 10 to one in it stores over Christmas. It will continue to sell HD-DVDs online.
Woolworths claims to be Britain's biggest seller of high-definition movies, with sales rising by 40 per cent a month.
"Sales figures clearly show that the market is moving towards one format of high-definition DVD," said the company's DVD buyer Steven McGunigel.
The main reason was that 750,000 UK homes have a Sony Playstation 3, which packs a Blu-ray player, he said. Microsoft offers an HD-DVD player as an optional extra with the rival Xbox 360.
The HD-DVD camp, led by Toshiba, was thrown onto the back foot at this month's Consumer Electronics Show when the Warner Bros movie company defected to Blu-ray.
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If Woolworths don't display HD DVDs then how could they sell them. I was in the Reading branch the other day and they were displaying "some" of the HD DVDs in Bluray cases. Not only confusing the consumer (Transformers available on Bluray anyone?!) but an underhand tactic by Sony who no doubt incentivised the stores to display BR only. The manager of the store said that he was not sent enough HD DVD cases to display the movies on the shopfloor...... how strange. HD DVD is the only format that is complete at this time with players that can be upgraded via the internet. A lot of BR players will become very obsolete very quickly. The PS3 admittedly is future proofed but the power it uses to play a disc compared to a stand alone player!!! No thanks....
Posted by Tony T, 28 Jan 2008