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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.
The “woolies” stores here in the UK are in rather dire straights and hardly the place you go to for HD! - and maybe this “story” shows that the blu ray camp is in a similar state when they resort to this kind of misinformation.
This is hardly news at all. What non-UK readers might like to know is that Woolies are a company in decline. For instance, Woolies in my city, Leicester, closed down last year. It is certainly nowhere near being the biggest Hi Def retailer in the UK - NOWHERE NEAR IT!! In fact, if you can find HDM in Woolies stores you’ve gone in equipped with a magnifying glass! So where did this piece of misinformation come from? As a police officer might say: Move on there’s nothing to see here…
More Blu ray dribble from Electronic House. I have no issue with Electronic House really trying to push for Blu Ray as much as possible as the financial difficulties on the blu ray side are well known.
I am only sorry that avsforum.com is a party to this type of unethical one sided non representative scare-tactick laden cowardice by constantly headlining these links.
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So where did this piece of misinformation come from?
Where it came from is prominently displayed in the post.
I love reading the HD DVD contingent screaming about the pro-Blu-Ray bias of Electronic House in comments on articles like these, and remaining mum of articles like “3 Good Reasons to Stick With HD DVD.”