BJ’s Wholesale Club to ditch HD DVD, chooses Blu-ray
By Danny Mendez
After winning over Target and Blockbuster stores, Blu-ray gains another ally: BJ’s Wholesale Club. With only one studio behind HD DVD exlusively and no big-name retail exclusives, HD DVD may see its demise in the coming months as predicted by Sony’s Peter Dille.
BJ’s Wholesale Club, an East Coast chain similar to Sam’s Club and Costco, has removed anything HD DVD from its 170 stores in favor of Sony’s Blu-ray format reports Video Business, but the retail chain’s website will continue to sell both formats.
Things look even more grim for HD DVD as rumors are floating around the net that Nintendo is developing a Blu-ray enabled Wii. The new Wii (or add-on?) will introduce a new “Wii Watch” Wii channel and a remote control peripheral for controlling playback.
Peter Dille of Sony recently made a comment to Gamasutra that HD DVD will be dead within months. If things continue like they are, it’s only a matter of time.
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September 21st, 2007
Boooooo HD dvd
Yaaaaaa Blue ray. Watched Full Metal Jacket on blue ray and i was more than satisfied.
December 25th, 2007
Dear Sir,
I will like to purchased Dvd Writers in your store,Pleased i will like to know if You can ship my goods to my destination in Great Britain.
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December 29th, 2007
Toshiba…just grow a pair and slap m$ in their faces already….your hd-dvd format is wasting all of our time lol.
Like they say, The Future is BLU!
June 5th, 2008
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