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Intergrerty -- we've never heard of it - Doc Spinola of that ilk
Netflix declares winner in HD battle
ON-LINE FLICK FLOGGER Netflix has become the latest convert in the battle of the HD titans. Under the directions of a “clear signal from the industry”, Netflix, “will carry High-def DVDs only in Blu-ray format”. Would the clear signal be akin to rats scurrying off a sinking ship?
Netflix spokesbeings have said they have clearly tracked down the Four Horsemen and these were seen galloping towards HD-DVD. They have also justified their decision in being towards the greater good, as Ted Sarandos, Chief Content Officer at Netflix put it: “The prolonged period of competition between two formats has prevented clear communication to the consumer regarding the richness of the high-def experience versus standard definition”.
So, sorry HD-DVD, but Sony, Warner, Buena Vista and 20th Century Fox control 80 per cent of the market and you don’t have a hot console that ships out of the box with a HD player and online connectivity to shop online for our products.
HD-DVD products at Netflix will stop shipping by year’s end – or maybe they’ll ship them off to troops in Iraq, like its competitor Blockbuster. µ
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Was that a joke at the end of this article?
I mean I don't support the war in Iraq. But if that was a joke about the troops being screwed for being in Iraq, it wasn't funny.
Can you not write an article without injecting your anti-military bias into the mix? I'm a serving Marine who's done two tours in Iraq. We are not "screwed anyway." Unless you've been there yourself and seen the situation with your own eyes, you have no business rendering judgment on who's winning this fight.

Other than that, it's a good article. No need to grind your own political axe. Report the facts and leave your bias out of it.

[This may have been a misunderstanding as to who's screwing who. The article has been edited to show the reference to Iraq refers to Blockbuster's recent attempt to make use of its HD-DVDs by shipping them out to the desert - MOD]
PS3 has been lukewarm at best until the recent price cut, putting its MSRP where it should have been at launch time...

Anyway, here's hoping for cheap used HDDVDs from Netflix before I cancel my service..
The author of the article wasn't trying to be funny. Blockbuster have sent loads of DVDs (HD or normal I don't know) to the troops in Iraq.

http://news.moneycentral.msn.com/ticker/article.aspx?Feed=PR&Date=20071218&ID=7954447&Symbol=BBI

All of this fighting over an almost obsolete idea, buying a physical disc. We will be downloading the latest HD flicks onto our thumb drives by next year, and plugging them into a USB port on the XBox or PS3 for playback, or our TVs will Wi-Fi themselves up to an HD stream, or some Media Center thing will take on that job. If you don't play games, you can probably count on dust gathering on your disc tray going forward.
Best Buy are the latest to dump HD DVD.

http://www.engadgethd.com/2008/02/11/best-buys-pushing-blu-ray-to-the-front/