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Best Buy to Consumers: Pick Blu-ray

February 12, 2008 | by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)

Retail giant Best Buy will recommend Blu-ray as the preferred high-def DVD format, and prominently showcase the format starting next month.

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Posted by OVC on 02/12 at 10:06 AM

LOL @ HD DVD, AGAIN!

Posted by lozenp on 02/12 at 10:06 AM

The HD DVD promo group issued the lamest of responses to this news. I think they are finally giving up.

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Posted by Jeff Kalman on 02/12 at 02:21 PM

I wonder what Dimitri has to say about all of this… Does he hear the champagne corks popping yet?

Posted by rastanearian on 02/13 at 02:13 AM

I am still hoping this format war will go the way of SACD and HD-Audio discs.

Posted by Aaron on 02/13 at 11:26 AM

The best article I have seen on the current status of the format war is over at TG Daily.

Posted by actiondvdguy on 02/13 at 09:22 PM

Best Buy believes that bluray is the best format for consumers. The fact that they make more profit on the sale of their cheapest bluray player than the average HDDVD player costs, has nothing to do with it.

Posted by TIM NELSON on 02/14 at 02:32 PM

best buy is just another company SONY BOUGHT OFF!! WHO CARES WHAT BESTBUY SAY’S OR DOES, YOU CAN BUY THE EXACT SAME THING AT AMAZOM.COM ALOT CHEAPER!! ANYWAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Posted by Aaron on 02/15 at 11:50 PM

Yeah that’s it - Sony pays everyone to sell their product! They don’t want to make a profit or anything?

Posted by actiondvdguy on 02/16 at 12:57 AM

Lets see, Sony makes the movies, and the gross receipts at the box office, then they make the overpriced bluray player you need to watch the movies, then they make the overpriced 1080p display you watch the movies on. Luckily the price of their tv’s are about double everyone elses and that’s where they are making their profit.

Posted by Powers on 02/16 at 01:09 PM

Blu-ray is not even a full developed product. I constantly get blu-ray disk that require firmware update to te Blu-ray player. Guest, that are visiting can not belive what a PITA the updates are. They would just give up and return the movie. Never had one problem with HD-DVD!

Posted by Darla on 02/16 at 01:48 PM

I havn’t had a problem with any movie and I was an early adopter with one of the first Blu-ray players out. Havn’t heard of anyone else having this problem either. Do you have a Blu-ray player Mr. Powers? Or, are you just making up s#%) because you are upset after buying into HD-DVD and now Toshiba is dropping it?

As a business analyst, I don’t see any reason why Sony or any other Blu-ray company would pay anyone to exclude HD-DVD when all indications were that HD-DVD was dying (even before the Toshiba announcement). It is more understandable that they just sit back and watch HD-DVD die when it hit the downslope after Warner’s announcement.

Posted by GREG PETTIT on 02/16 at 02:04 PM

best buy JUST GET MONEY FROM SONI THAT WHY!!! I KNO IT. SONY IS EVIL. I CAN GO AMAZOM LIKE TIM SAY.

Posted by GREG on 02/16 at 02:08 PM

YEAH!! SONY DOUBL PRISE AND NOT FUL DEVELOPD PRODUCT. BUT I EAT PITA CHIPS.

Posted by Jeff Kalman on 02/16 at 02:08 PM

Yep, Darla. I haven’t had any problems with Blu-Ray either. All the posts by people like Powers are the exact reason I decided to pick Blu-Ray over HD-DVD. Blu-Ray is technically superior, but I was buying both initially anyway. Seeing all the bologna propaganda being posted by people on the HD-DVD side made me decide to switch to the Blu-Ray side permanently…

Posted by ray on 02/16 at 02:50 PM

I made a good choice 16 years ago to get a vhs player, i get all my movies free from the library to boot. I knew all this new fangle stuff was a set up tp get my money. ‘Tween the revenuers and the comapnies they are both out to clean us out. I just wish my tapes would stop gittin a tangled up.

Posted by Jeff Kalman on 02/16 at 02:52 PM

Careful ray!

Don’t hang yourself in all that loose tape. :D

Posted by Powers on 02/18 at 12:41 PM

Darla and Jeff

I have had a Blu-ray player for about a year and yes I had 3 Blu-ray disks that required a firmware update to play. The last update was for blu-ray java 1.1.

Posted by Powers on 02/18 at 12:53 PM

Sony is releaseing the blu-ray requirments in what they call Profiles. They started with a grace period profile called 1.0. The have two additional profile 1.1 and 2.0. sorry to say that this is not “bologna propaganda”.

Refer to and article “HIGH-DEF DIGEST” High-Def FAQ: Blu-ray Profiles Explained
Fri Nov 23, 2007 at 03:35 PM ET
by: Joshua Zyber http://www.highdefdigest.com/news/show/Joshua_Zyber/High-Def_FAQ:_Blu-ray_Profiles_Explained/1186.

Even sony is releasing firmware to support profile update to the PS3. see the blob entry by PlayStation Network Operations:
Firmware Update (v2.10)+ Posted by Eric Lempel // Director,
http://blog.us.playstation.com/2007/12/17/firmware-update-v210/comment-page-2/

Posted by Jeff Kalman on 02/18 at 12:56 PM

Powers, you don’t know what I was referring to as propaganda…

I’m well aware that players need updates for some new (not necessarily useful) features.