July 27th, 2007
Another Nail in the HD-DVD Coffin? Target Selling Only Blu-ray Standalone Players
By Michael Santo
Executive Editor, RealTechNews
Another blow to HD-DVD? Earlier, we reported that Blockbuster had decided to rent Blu-ray only … now it seems that Target, at least through the Christmas shopping season, they will only sell Blu-ray standalone players, no HD-DVD ones.
In a statement on Thursday, Sony Corp. said that Target will exclusively carry Blu-ray players “at least through the holiday season” and will also expand its inventory of Blu-ray discs. Source: Reuters
We Say: The HD-DVD group worked some quick damage control, stating: “Target will continue to carry the Xbox 360 HD DVD drive as well as HD DVD titles so we don’t see much of a change in their plans to carry both formats.” Uh, huh. Please look up Betamax … 
Wesley says:
I for one really hope the Blu Ray standard wins out. Better quality, more storage capacity, etc, etc.
However, take a look at prices. From checking Crutchfield and Circuit City, the cheapest Blu Ray player is $500. Compare that to the HD DVD player, which sells for $250-300 on the low end. Sadly, most people couldn’t care less about quality and will go for what’s cheap. If Sony doesn’t get their act together and get the price down to a comparable level very soon, they are going to lose big time. Let’s hope they learned something from the Betamax loss…
I haven’t looked at a Target store, but if you look on their web site, they have 3 different HD DVD players for sale…and no Blu Ray players. Something’s funny here…
July 27th, 2007 at 8:52 am
Charles says:
Just because they have them now doesn’t mean they will continue to have them.
Back inventory ya know…
July 27th, 2007 at 1:29 pm
htpcguy says:
Err… Turns out this is just a deal to add Sony Blu-ray end caps to Target stores.
July 29th, 2007 at 9:00 am
alucard says:
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September 2nd, 2007 at 9:24 am