According to The Retail Bulletin, “Ratatouille” is expected to be Woolworths’ first big Blu-ray chart topper.
When I was a kid, the name Woolworths was synonymous with the five-and-dime and a good burger. Now they are blazing the trail for the Blu-ray camp.
The retailer has just announced (via The Retail Bulletin) that it will drop its current selection of HD DVDs and save all of its love and shelf space for Blu-ray titles. They are the first major retailer to do so.
According to staff, Blu-ray outsold HD DVD over the holidays, 10 to 1. Woolworths is the biggest seller of high-def DVDs in the UK.
“Sales figures clearly show that the market is moving towards one format of high definition DVD,” says Woolworths DVD buyer Steven McGunigel. “The main reason is the success of Sony’s PlayStation 3 machine. Because it plays Blu-Ray discs, there are over 3/4 million homes in the UK that can view the new high definition format. There is no where near that number of HD-DVD players around.”
The retailer will continue to sell HD DVDs on its website. The shelf switch will start in March.
Good one Actiondvdguy!
I just hate to see folks waste money on a dying format and it looks like Blu-ray is winning more and more….latest is Netflix to drop HD-DVD.
It shouldn’t be so bad for some HD-DVD folks. They may be able to purchase collections of already released stuff at a discount on eBay. It will just be the new stuff that they won’t be able to get. For cost savings with player price and firesale movies not too bad.
Aaron,
This is your homeowners association, This is our third request for you to remove the Blu-Ray Forever I Love Sony banner from the front of your house. It is depreciating the neighborhood values.
More companies going Blu-ray since the Warner defection:
Micro star (MSI)
FS Film
Sonic
EMI music
National Geographic
Bandai Visual
Surround Records
Singulus Technologies
Digital Playground
Manga Films
Highlight Video
Swedish Films
Scanbox
Filmax
Image Entertainment
Echo Bridge Home Entertainment
“We won’t know completely for sure until Onkyo says more.” Quite right, and that is my take on it.
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Awesome article. Hoping to do something similar with my new home and iPhone/Creston… 
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and it’s not all plain sailing for blu ray as some would have you believe
** Blu-ray future limited for some **
Blu-ray owners may be frozen out of developments because their machines are not upgradeable.
< http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/em/fr/-/2/hi/technology/7187179.stm >
But Mr Upham said the format had a lot of work yet to do to reassure consumers they are safe to upgrade from DVD.
He added: “If Blu-ray wants to reach a wider audience, it needs to have more clarity.”
But he said the likely victims of the Blu-ray profiles issue was almost certainly a limited audience.
“The guys that bought the first Blu-ray players are the guys who bought the first laser discs. They know the risks.”
also
http://www.digital-digest.com/blog/DVDGuy/2007/09/29/blu-ray-buyer-beware/