HD DVD Player Sales Grind To a Halt

Lucas123 writes "While the news may fall under the 'Duh' category, it's still relatively shocking how quickly the death knell for HD DVD player sales came on after Warner Bros. announced they were dropping dual hi-def DVD format support in order to back only Blu-ray. According to a Computerworld story, the week after Warner's announcement, sales of HD DVD players dropped to 1,758, down from 14,558 players the week before. In contrast, consumers bought 21,770 Blu-ray Disc players, up from 15,257 the previous week."

Re:Poor Bastards

[deadeye766]

Go to hell! LaserDisc is the one true way!!! =)

It's over

[$RANDOMLUSER]

I think this [youtube.com] says it all.

Re:Poor Bastards

[MacarooMac]

or two true ways, for features running over 120 minutes ;)

Unpossible!

[Ungulate]

From Beta to MiniDisc to Memory Stick, Sony never successfully pushes a format on the market. I can only conclude that BluRay will be supplanted by an as-of-yet-unrevealed third technology. My fragile worldview cannot accept any other alternatives.

Re:Poor Bastards

[pragma_x]

And that's why the rest of us wait for format wars to end.

Exactly.

I simply sit in the trench and wait until the cacohpany of cash registers and emptying bank accounts comes to a halt. I then peer out from my fox-hole and look to see the vast wasteland around me: HD-DVD players being thrown out by the dozens, consumers with smoking holes in their wallets, and the wreckage of packing waste and store displays strewn about as if by some hurricane.

Somewhere, distant as if on the wind, I can hear the quiet sobbing of some videophile, lamenting the death of his preferred format.

Format war is hell.

Re:Poor Bastards

[Mr. Underbridge]

And that's why the rest of us wait for format wars to end.

Format wars? Is that a movie? How does it end, I haven't seen many new movies lately. I wait for them to come out on my Betamax machine.