Woolworths stores will stock only Blu-ray high-definition movies from March
in the latest setback for the rival HD-DVD format.
The company says Blu-ray outsold HD-DVD movies by 10 to one in it stores
over Christmas. It will continue to sell HD-DVDs online.
Woolworths
claims to be Britain's biggest seller of high-definition movies, with sales
rising by 40 per cent a month.
"Sales figures clearly show that the market is moving towards one format of
high-definition DVD," said the company's DVD buyer Steven McGunigel.
The main reason was that 750,000 UK homes have a Sony Playstation 3, which
packs a Blu-ray player, he said. Microsoft offers an HD-DVD player as an
optional extra with the rival Xbox 360.
The HD-DVD camp, led by Toshiba, was
thrown
onto the back foot at this month's Consumer Electronics Show when the Warner
Bros movie company defected to Blu-ray.
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