Blockbuster to focus on Blu-ray

June 17th, 2007

“The format war between HD-DVD and Blu-ray has posted another battle, this time the victor seems to be the Blu-ray side. Blockbuster has announced it has chosen Blu-ray as the HD format to rent out in the majority of its stores. This decision comes after rental data was looked at for the 250 stores that carry both HD-DVD and Blu-Ray with the majority of rentals being Blu-Ray. Blockbuster now plans to stock Blu-ray only in 1450 of it’s stores, but says the 250 stores with the HD-DVD movies will be kept on the shelf…” (Read full article here)

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