Nail in the coffin for Blu-Ray.... Wal-Mart invest heavily IN HD-DVD.

"downgoesfrazier" <boxes@trimesterfighting.net> wrote in message
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> "Bilge Merk" <bilge_murk@yahoo.com> wrote in message
> news:1177259015.694321.314160@b75g2000hsg.googlegr oups.com...
> > This has been one of the more stupid events in the lengthy history of
> > xflop fanbitch straw-grabbing for obscure rumor articles. The original
> > article is totally in Chinese and where this idiotic topic is being
> > argued, there is disagreement over whether that article is referring
> > to Blu-ray or HD-DVD and what that means to both. I really have to
> > laugh at this idiotic preoccupation of what will and will not happen
> > based on misinterpretations of mistranslations. Even if it is about HD-
> > DVD, so what? The price being described is $300. The Toshiba HD-DVD
> > player is about $300 now on sale and that is often with 3 to 5 free
> > movies. There is no upheaval coming about because of this. That
> > article was about those Chinese players starting to ship in early
> > 2008, many months from now. Not only that, when Chinese knock-offs
> > first start showing up, their past history has been a horror story
> > about horrible quality. Also, there is no mention of features which
> > are also usually lacking in early Chinese knock-offs. The only
> > indicator of this particular non-news event is that the xflop
> > fanbitches are aware of the dire situation HD-DVD is in and are
> > desperate for any glimmer of delusion in their school-girl fantasy
> > that HD-DVD might survive going under.
> >
>
>

Wal-Mart Shoots Down Cheap HD DVD Rumor:

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1895,2122715,00.asp

"Wal-Mart denied rumors that it had placed a substantial order with a
Taiwan supplier for ultra-cheap HD DVD players that could swing the
format wars in that direction.
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A spokesperson for the company said Thursday that reported leak
concerning Taiwan-based consumer electronics manufacturer, Fuh Yuan,
partnering with TDK in China to manufacture the $250-299 players, had
no merit."

Blu-ray FTW!

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Bill Cable wrote:
> Wal-Mart Shoots Down Cheap HD DVD Rumor:
>
> http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1895,2122715,00.asp
>
> "Wal-Mart denied rumors that it had placed a substantial order with a
> Taiwan supplier for ultra-cheap HD DVD players that could swing the
> format wars in that direction.

Agreed. No order was placed, it was more along the lines of "Can we
get a price quote for 2 million HD-DVD drives? How soon could we get
them?"

http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/home-ente...ers-255675.php

Remember those rumors that Wal-Mart was going big in HD DVD and
ordering 2 million cheapo Chinese HD DVD players? Yeah, that's not so
true. Fuh Yuan, the company supposedly taking the orders, just posted
a correction regarding the orders, saying they "had not received yet."
Wal-Mart just asked them for a cost analysis and timing appraisal, and
may choose them to provide the players if everything looks dandy. Did
you know Fuh yuan is supposedly, according to a translation in AVS
forums, going to IPO soon? Convenient.

Wal-Mart itself said they can't comment on whether there was a deal
brewing, but did say they plan to sell both Blu-ray and HD DVD until
one of them sucks slightly less than the other.

In more non-news, we called it that Blu-ray would only be winning for
another 5 minutes before HD DVD threw a statistic in their favor
across the wires. To the Blu-ray's millions of discs sold, HD DVD is
actually at 998,059, just 2,000 units of Blu-ray's million disc march.

That's why I call it non news.