"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 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.
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.
Netflix to Offer HD DVD and Blu-ray
Linear Mode
