HD DVD Player Sales Grind To a Halt

Lucas123 writes "While the news may fall under the 'Duh' category, it's still relatively shocking how quickly the death knell for HD DVD player sales came on after Warner Bros. announced they were dropping dual hi-def DVD format support in order to back only Blu-ray. According to a Computerworld story, the week after Warner's announcement, sales of HD DVD players dropped to 1,758, down from 14,558 players the week before. In contrast, consumers bought 21,770 Blu-ray Disc players, up from 15,257 the previous week."

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Me don't care either way

[KlausBreuer]

And why should I? I don't have a TV, thus I won't ever have a playstation, XBox, or whatever.
I view DVDs on my PC. Thus, to me, the only use of bought DVDs (DVD-RW are getting too small for backup) are movies.

Way back when, I viewed VHS movies on my PC - and enjoyed them a lot.
Then the DVDs came out: no VHS player needed, much better image, last longer, take up less space, no image decay. Great - I switched immediately.
Now DVDs with a higher resolution are out. So what? In my book, the movie resolution of a DVD is high enough - while I've seen comparisons, I don't notice them when the movie is playing.

I have quite a few DVDs. So now I should eBay them all (like my VHS), buy everything *again*, just so some company makes more money?

Sorry, not interested.