Blu-Ray and HD-DVD are warring factions, but despite how much I wanted things to be resolved peacefully between the two camps, it’s appearing as if Blu-ray is set to straight-up kill HD-DVD. Not only from Blockbuster’s decision to back Blu-ray as its HD format of the future, but now Target, with its 4,000,000,000 outlets, has opted to sell Blu-ray stand-alone players over HD-DVD for the holiday season.
I wanted HD-DVD to win, mostly out of my open disdain for Sony’s proprietary format ideas. That being said, Blu-ray is technically a better format, so in all this is probably a good thing: until the format war is over, many people aren’t going to invest in next-gen disc players. By moving one step closer to a single format, we can start getting our HD on faster, which I’m all about.
Target to Promote Blu-Ray DVD Format [Forbes]
Just letting you know, that story is around a week old. Target isn’t actually backing Blu-ray, they’re still selling the HD DVD add-on for the Xbox 360 as well as HD DVD titles.
http://crunchgear.com/2007/07/30/hd-dvd-camps-scoffs-at-targets-backing-of-sony-blu-ray-player/