Walmart pushing blu-ray


I'm watching the NFL on Fox and there have been a number of Walmart commercials solely pushing blu-ray players. Walmarts considerable weight behind the format is certainly good news for the future of the format.
cruz123

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My only caveat might be to heed the words of certain bozos who saw this a year ago with HD-DVD. "Someone" (ahem - you'll probably have to go search the archives...) made some of the almost-same comments last year, only then it was about Walmart's push on HD. Turns out that even their marketing muscle didn't do the trick and the rest was history (just like HD players).

Walmart will push whatever they think will sell and make 'em money. If it's not profitable then they also have no qualms about pulling the plug and moving on - soon. Maybe this will be enough incentive to get the actual out-the-door retail prices ("we don't need no steenkin' rebates!") down to where Joe the Plumber will buy?