Netflix Drives Another Nail Into HD-DVD's Coffin

by Brig Larsen - 2008/02/11 9:22am

In a recent public announcement, Netflix, popular online movie rental service, has announced that it will no longer be supporting the HD-DVD format. It will be transferring its High Definition services exclusively to support Sony's Blu-ray format. In the past few months Blu-ray has been gaining massive support from major publishing companies such as Disney and MGM, effectively cutting HD-DVD's supporters to a small and insignificant number.

Along with Blockbuster's exclusive support for Blu-ray it would seem that it is nigh on impossible now to rent HD-DVD discs anywhere, and the Sony is about to win the war. Good news for PS3 owners and Blu-ray player owners, but a sad day to own a HD-DVD unit.

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