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Wal-Mart Goes Blu-ray Exclusive in June

Zlevee — Sat, 16 Feb 2008 11:45:12 EST

@Samifumi: I agree it could have been a option for the high-end guyer, and many people would have gone for it.

Zlevee

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DelSource — Sat, 16 Feb 2008 09:31:34 EST

One word for this graphic: awesome - [en.wikipedia.org]

DelSource

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jaymac — Sat, 16 Feb 2008 01:33:34 EST

Sad. HD DVD death:Confirmed.

@chouchou: I don't think Sony necessarily owns Blu Ray. I think they were just one of the first companies to grasp the technology or something. Correct me if I'm wrong though.

jaymac

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dalejrfanfreak — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 19:50:50 EST

Hd-dvd just died today, but it won't be getting buried, no more nails, no coffin, instead it's just gonna BURN. I hope all of you 360 fanboys soak this day up, I was right and you were wrong :)

dalejrfanfreak

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Victo — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 18:28:00 EST

Sony wins this one. One last nail in HD DVD product line.

Victo

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PlasmaMachine — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 17:18:05 EST

Man these Blu-Ray fanboys are amazing & I thought Apple fanboys were bad.. Y'all are making all of us normal Blu-ray owners look bad!

PlasmaMachine

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turbofreak — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 16:29:42 EST

so...about all those hd-dvd players...

turbofreak

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CruJones — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 16:17:08 EST

Loo-hoo-sers

CruJones

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matizzy — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 16:16:34 EST

SONY SONY SONY!!!!!!!!! (FANBOYS CHANTING IN THE DISTANCE INCLUDING ME)

matizzy

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*click**click* — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 16:14:31 EST

@ARPRINCE: Ditto.

*click**click*

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backbroken — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 15:58:48 EST

I honestly think Blu-ray won because "Blu-ray' just sounds cooler than "HD-DVD."

In any event, Hu-ray.

backbroken

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efenili — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 15:09:12 EST

Another Toshiba exec just got a headache for the rest of their life:P There are only like 2 left without them..

efenili

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i BaldEagle — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 14:56:29 EST

Coming soon...the Toshiba Blu-Ray player for $249, w00t!!!

i BaldEagle

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TheFaze — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 14:54:52 EST

F Giz and the Sony-haterade bandwagon!! MUHAHAHAHAH

Take that biatches!!

SONY FTW!! WHOOOOOOT!!

TheFaze

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xerograde — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 14:45:38 EST

Fire Sales FTW!!

xerograde

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vertibraker — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 14:40:31 EST

@Samifumi: They could have but I don't think an Xbox with HD drive built in would have made a difference. There just wasn't enough studio support for HD DVD. The HDDVD player was a good product but who wants a product with very little movies. The reason the PS3 struggled is because of the lack of games. If the studios supported both product, the results may have been delayed much longer. HDDVD is more advanced at this stage because Blu-ray is still fairly new, but it was inevitable that the results would have been the same.

vertibraker

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Skoove — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 14:39:00 EST

Game. Set. Match.

Skoove

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graffiksguru — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 14:33:43 EST

huzzah! die HD-DVD. you won't be missed

@Kanti_V2: Ha!

graffiksguru

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Samifumi — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 14:26:51 EST

I blame Microsoft and it's half-assed HD-DVD support. They cared more about selling Xbox 360s cheaper, and less about HD-DVD market penetration. They could have easily offered a more expensive XBOX 360 with the built in HD-DVD drive and support for 1080p.

Samifumi

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Zan — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 13:58:00 EST

lmao at me thinkin this was really gonna be a real battle. This was a backyard, prison butt rapein, ECW bust you over the back with barbed wire, get up off the floor or die tryin, pissed off cause I paid for the Pay-Per-View and it only lasted 30 seconds, beatdown. HD-DVD never stood a chance.

Zan

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Kanti_V2 — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 13:52:07 EST

So.....when can I start doing the 'I told you so' dance? Is it now, when Toshiba officially stops production, or when I see a hot half naked woman holding an HD-DVD player in one of Gizmodos next photo competitions?

Kanti_V2

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maxcalvino — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 13:47:10 EST

@Ledsled:

please dude STFU

maxcalvino

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maxcalvino — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 13:45:50 EST

bend me over HD DVD jajaja !!

maxcalvino

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Kounji — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 13:33:40 EST

Heh, yeah that sucks. Well now they have truly lost. Come june we will herald the era of blu ray and the death of HD-DVD.

Kounji

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yogibimbi — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 13:30:17 EST

@Kaiser-Machead: don't forget Godzilla tripping over sea-floor cables...

yogibimbi

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ProfWho — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 13:23:48 EST

@Ledsled: I cannot wait for the Beatles to reunite.

ProfWho

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Galley — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 13:23:39 EST

@vertibraker: There is if they want to overtake SD DVD!

Galley

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vertibraker — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 13:21:03 EST

@GOKOR: Nope Taz wasn't but he did make it popular. Is your name in reference to the Armenian Assassin?

vertibraker

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GOKOR — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 13:17:10 EST

@vertibraker: Well, you're assuming everyone knows who you're talking about when mentioning Taz, which I'm certain many don't. Then you have to take into consideration that Taz was not the first to use that expression or acronym.

And here I thought your tag wasn't related to what I knew it would end up being a reference to.

GOKOR

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TableZero — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 13:17:08 EST

I can't wait for HD-DVD to rise from the ashes and smite Blu-ray.

TableZero

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foe1one — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 13:14:55 EST

Toshiba's offcial reaction: "Ohh Snaps!"

foe1one

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dontforget — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 13:14:21 EST

@Seiven: my bad... typo [gizmodo.com]

dontforget

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dontforget — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 13:11:11 EST

thanks guys/ladies
@brandonbucket: haha, waited a long time trying to get it on my own... i was afraid of being shit on, but finally gave up.

As for the topic, I'm happy the war is over.

dontforget

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yellowcanary73 — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 13:03:29 EST

Like I buy Electronics from Wally World

yellowcanary73

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andrelix — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 13:02:53 EST

For sale, Xbox 360 HD-DVD Drive, perfect condition, really never used...

andrelix

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bobdobbs — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 12:52:18 EST

You think Wally-world didn't know this was coming two months ago when they were pushing HD=DVD players for $99 just-in-time-for-Christmas?

God, I hope somewhere a fat Wal-Mart executive chomping on a cigar, looked out a 30-story-high window and yelled "Sorry suckers!" before laughing maniacally until he needed a dose from his asthma-inhaler.

bobdobbs

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vertibraker — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 12:51:31 EST

@gotenki: Not likely. The PS3 is barely breaking even with production cost. Because HD DVD is almost dead, there is no incentives to decrease the prices until a profit is finally made and production cost lowers.

vertibraker

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calebc — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 12:44:02 EST

@gotenki: Not really. It will be a natural progression. Eventually Blu-Ray will become such a commodity it will just be included with DVD players and you will have the option of buying the DVD or BD, until BDs are so cheap to produce everything will just be released as a BD.

calebc

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mopar_man — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 12:36:11 EST

@plankbr:

Since they have no competition, probably not but all Blu Ray products sold at Wal-Mart will come with free lead lacing.

mopar_man

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gotenki — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 12:35:05 EST

With the format war looking like it's over, I wonder how agressively the Blu-Ray group will cut prices to push the format. Beating HD-DVD was a minor battle in comparison to beating DVD.

gotenki

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Seiven — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 12:34:37 EST

@Seiven:
[www.urbandictionary.com]
I guess

Seiven

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Seiven — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 12:34:01 EST

@dontforget: TSFU?

never seen that one before

Seiven

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brandonbucket — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 12:28:52 EST

can't lie.. i always assumed FTW was a yoda WTF.

thank you DONTFORGET for finally having the lluevos to clear that up for me.

brandonbucket

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vertibraker — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 12:27:08 EST

@dontforget: Original meaning of FTW = F the World made famous by TAZ. The meaning used here is For the Win

vertibraker

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Canoehead — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 12:24:56 EST

Fork. Stick in. Dead.

Canoehead

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ProfWho — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 12:24:44 EST

The War is Over!!!

One format FTW

ProfWho

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grem28 — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 12:21:54 EST

FTW = For The Win

grem28

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illpacin0 — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 12:20:57 EST

@dontforget: FTW = For The Win.

illpacin0

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tutelary — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 12:15:38 EST

coffin, meet nail.

tutelary

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dontforget — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 12:14:01 EST

i've held out on this one for a long time. I usually figure out the nsfw and tsfu etc...., but i can't get this one
FTW
someone please

dontforget

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Kaiser-Machead's Chips Ahoy! — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 12:13:48 EST

How can this really be true, when Wal*Mart sells cheap irrelevant shit all the time?

Kaiser-Machead's Chips Ahoy!

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crycry — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 12:13:04 EST

@vertibraker: So true, DVD players all still cost $500 at a minimum, y'know.. because of the lack of a secondary format. If only the blu ray association was a consortium of several electronics companies and movie studios all competing for my money. Then they would do things like constantly improve the format and shrink the components lowering the manufacturing costs in the process.

crycry

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firesign — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 12:11:28 EST

first the red sox win the world series, then sony wins a format war. now if the cubs ever win the world series, the world is going to end.

firesign

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citizen024 — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 12:10:51 EST

"So… if you bought the HD player like me, I'd retire it to the bedroom, kid's playroom, or give it to your parents to play their John Wayne standard def movies, and make space for a BD player for your awesome Hi Def experience."

BURN BABY, BURN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

HDDVD is officially gone. Blue Ray FTW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

citizen024

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Maksimir — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 12:05:55 EST

Headshot!

Maksimir

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AJ_Syrinx — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 12:01:35 EST

@matt buchanan: I stand corrected, Matt. Blogs have developed a "reputation" IMO and I jumped the gun.

AJ_Syrinx

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vertibraker — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 12:00:33 EST

@plankbr: Why would Blu-ray price be going down. There is no incentive to.

vertibraker

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plankbr — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 12:00:12 EST

@92BuickLeSabre:

...and they have some serious grammar issues.

plankbr

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efenili — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 11:57:34 EST

@ All the people yelling about fact checking

This is a blog itself, how can you people honestly feel it needs to be some super fact checking machine? Do you come to a BLOG for your real news?

Its kind of backwards thinking that you point at a blog for getting info from another blog when thats exactly what you are doing...

efenili

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nayajhen — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 11:55:26 EST

So I guess Sony won this round. Maybe Toshiba missed a few lessons fromthe VHS people...

nayajhen

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92BuickLeSabre — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 11:55:08 EST

Yeah, Gizmodo, AJ_Syrinx, john_nyc, and ARPRINCE are so right!

How in the world could you think that Wal-Mart's own internal press rel...I mean, "blog"...is a legitimate official source on news about Wal-Mart own internal decisions!

A quote from a guy that works for Wal-Mart or a story from another news outlet next time please!

92BuickLeSabre

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plankbr — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 11:53:46 EST

So does this mean the prices of Blu-Ray are going to be driven down?

plankbr

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matt buchanan — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 11:53:04 EST

@AJ_Syrinx: What are you talking about? Checkout is Wal-Mart's official blog.

matt buchanan

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AJ_Syrinx — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 11:50:15 EST

Hey, Gizmodo, at least CNN Money got a quote from Wal-Mart's Senior Vice President of Home Entertainment.

[money.cnn.com]

Now that wasn't so hard, was it?

AJ_Syrinx

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AJ_Syrinx — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 11:45:57 EST

@john_nyc: Because apparently is not required anymore. All news media sources, old and new, appear to have quit on fact-checking.

AJ_Syrinx

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ARPRINCE — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 11:44:14 EST

@AJ_Syrinx: I agree.

ARPRINCE

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john_nyc — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 11:40:57 EST

@AJ_Syrinx: Right. And it doesn't even have the "rumor" tag.

john_nyc

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AJ_Syrinx — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 11:37:40 EST

It's probably true, but why reference someone's blog instead of waiting for official word from Wal-Mart?

AJ_Syrinx

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Kaiser-Machead's Chips Ahoy! — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 11:37:30 EST

Best picture ever. This is a close second for the "Oh Shit" fish in orbit.

Kaiser-Machead's Chips Ahoy!

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Scaramanga — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 11:37:03 EST

Its over, Walmart just shot the final rounds into the twitching corpse of HD-DVD. Walmart sells 40% of all DVDs sold in the US, without them or BestBuy there really isn't a chance. I guess the rumored official pull-out by Toshiba reported by Hollywood Reporter is true.

Scaramanga

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Seiven — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 11:32:36 EST

HDDVD is officially dead...THIS is the TRUE deathblow

Seiven

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Anks329 — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 11:30:53 EST

haha, love the picture!

Anks329