Are you the owner of a HD DVD player who looks to Netflix to supply your high definition rental needs? Are you a HD DVD enthusiast who buys your DVDs from Best Buy? Well, I hate to be the one to break it to you, but your format of choice will no longer be available through Netflix’s DVD rental service by the end of the year and your local Best Buy will be highlighting Blu-ray as the high definition format of choice.

While Best Buy maintains they will still sell HD DVDs, the writing is obviously on the wall for HD DVD, despite HD DVD being the more consumer-ready format. Blu-ray was rushed to market by Sony, who learned something from the launch of the PlayStation 2 and the Betamax debacle.

If you get a new media delivery format and integrate it with a popular video game system, then you have the immediate edge in any format war, because most format wars are all about public relations. Even though HD DVDs are cheaper to make and purchase, HD DVD players have more features, and the only real difference in the two formats is raw disc capacity, Sony’s ability to point to the PlayStation 3 and say, “Look, here’s an audience of millions who are able to buy Blu-ray DVDs!” and their in-house movie studios have seemingly won the battle.

One good thing about HD DVD is that, because the tide seems to be turning, Toshiba will cut prices on HD DVD players even further. This means that, for those of you out there with high-definition televisions, you can now buy one of the best up-converting DVD players made for the price of a standard DVD player, along with a lot of great HD DVD movies that are exclusive to the HD DVD format, like The Ultimate Matrix Collection. Enjoy the bargains while they last.

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