Netflix goes Blu

[admin]

Reuters is reporting today that the online DVD rental company Netflix has announced that they will only stock Blu-ray discs. Until now, Netflix has supported both high definition formats. With four of the big six movie studios now in the pocket of Blu-ray, it seems more and more companies are abandoning the HD DVD format. For those of you with HD DVD players, this may be an excellent opportunity to pick up a few used discs on the cheap.


Discuss "Netflix goes Blu" here. Read the article.

[ivseenbetter]

Dang! It just keeps getting worse and worse for HD DVD! I am sure Toshiba can turn it around though.

[majorloser]

You got beat to the punch

Netflix goes Blu

[Jim Robbins]

I wonder how much Sony paid them to do this.

Now, will netflix add the option for "I prefer BD 1.0 because my player won't work with 2.0 discs".

[birdonthebeach]

Might be time to go eBay with my HD DVD player and discs!!!

[croseiv]

So Blu-Ray seems to be the way to go now eh? Glad I've held out on picking a HD format player. The combo players still look attractive though.

[birdonthebeach]

actually, not sure I will go blu-ray. It appears that delivery via the net is well on it's way, with Apple taking the lead. I will sit back and watch to see what develops, enjoying my old-school dvd's for now. I just can't imagine that in a year or two I will be buying or renting discs. I think it will all be legal downloads, purchasing or renting.

[erick.s]

I just read a press release from Best Buy saying they were backing blu-ray. Things are starting to pick up steam now.

[evilkat]

Yes! Another nail in the coffin of the war that never should have been I personally don't plan on using the downloads....I love the fact that I can have a library of discs free from storage failure of computers and HHDs (and relatively DRM free!).

[Hi Ho]

This is a dissapointment for me. I was hoping to use Netflix to watch HD DVDs instead of buying them. I'm really not ready to spend $500 or more on a Blu-ray player that's not fully compatible and doesn't decode all of the HD audio formats. All I want is a player that is profile 2.0 compatible and decodes all of the audio formats to MPCM. I got that with my $200 HD DVD player 10 months ago. Why is the Blu-ray side taking so damn long to do this?