Blockbuster Chooses Blu-ray · Slashdot Mirror

Posted by CmdrTaco on Monday June 18, 2007 @02:43AM from the nailing-the-coffin-shut dept.

s31523 writes "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."

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Re:Wow, this is huge by brewer13210 · 2007-06-18 02:57 · Score: 5, Informative

Easy...shelf space. Stocking both would essentially require them to stock two of everything, which isn't optimal if you're trying to provide a wide selection to your customers.