Netflix to Offer HD DVD and Blu-ray

[Suhit Gupta]

<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://www.betanews.com/article/Netflix_to_Offer_HD_DVD_and_Bluray/1138127535' target='_blank'>http://www.betanews.com/article/Netflix_to_Offer_HD_DVD_and_Bluray/1138127535</a><br /><br /></div><i>"Online movie rental service Netflix announced Tuesday it planned to support both new high-definition DVD formats upon their launch later this year, pledging to carry all initial HD DVD and Blu-ray movie titles and make them available for customers. The company acknowledges that initial adoption of the formats will be slow, but it believes high-definition formats will eventually replace standard DVDs as prices fall. Toshiba expects to launch its first HD DVD player in March, and Blu-ray players will likely follow in May."</i><br /><br />I don't know if I have mentioned this before but I have been totally hooked onto Netflix for some time now. I am so happy to hear of this move on their part. I am glad to see a company like Netflix capitalizing and expanding to new video/disc formats without getting hung-up on trying to choose sides in the format war.

[Ed Hansberry]

I love netflix. However, I'll stick to my plain old lo-res DVDs until there is one format. No way am I wasting money on a DVD player to have it go out the window in a few years. If every consumer did the same and let the players rot on the shelves, Sony and Toshiba would get back together and come up with one format.