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Woolworths officially drops HD DVD
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article published on 28 January, 2008
Woolworths has announced that beginning in March it will no longer sell HD DVD movies in its stores and will instead be Blu-ray exclusive.
The company cited Christmas sales as a main reason for the drop, stating that Blu-ray outsold HD-DVD by 10 to 1 over the period. The company also called the Sony PlayStation 3 the major factor for Blu-ray's emerging market dominance.
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glasssd
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29. January 2008 @ 18:13 |
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Nobrainer, I dont have access to them. I am curious if that is something that you could supply for us? We never get much real info from other places. Would be good to know. I just stated "largest retailer of high definition discs in the UK" because that is what we read here in the States.
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cousinkix
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29. January 2008 @ 18:21 |
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The F. W. Woolworth Company (often referred to as Woolworth's) was a retail company that was one of the original American five-and-dime stores. The first Woolworth's store was founded, with a loan of $300, in 1878 by Frank Winfield Woolworth. Despite growing to be one of the largest retail chains in the world through most of the 20th century, increased competition led to its decline beginning in the 1980s.
In 1997, F. W. Woolworth Company converted itself into a sporting goods retailer, closing its remaining retail stores operating under the "Woolworth's" brand name and renaming itself Venator Group. By 2001, the company focused exclusively on the sporting goods market, changing its name to the present Foot Locker Inc
Retail chains using the Woolworth name survive in the United Kingdom, Germany, Austria, Mexico, and South Africa. The similarly named Woolworth's supermarkets in Australia and New Zealand are operated by Woolworths Limited, a separate company with no historical links to the F. W. Woolworth Company or Foot Locker, Inc.
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29. January 2008 @ 19:04 |
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29. January 2008 @ 21:20 |
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hmm, i kinda wish woolworths here in aus would sell ps3 (grocery at woolworth here in aus is real cheap) rather than go thru there chain Big W which is kinda a rip.
but i dont think alot ppl in aus realli care abt whether the format is Hd or blue ray because the cheaper one will prevail (mainli hd)
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varnull
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29. January 2008 @ 21:36 |
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Yup.. it's different on the asian rim.. we sell a huge amount of r5 dvd's.. because they are cheaper.. (then muggins here has to rip and burn them because the stoopids have region locked players)
These blu-ray morons really get my goat.. it's like they WANT a drm riddled region hobbled format.
Woolworths.. well I went into a large high street outlet earlier today.. and guess what.. No hd disks at all.. in either format. 360 games.. top 10.. ps3 games 3 out of top 10.. have not had delivery of the others, I asked a bored assistant.. and a bargain bin of ps2 (some full price, but not many) and xbox games..
I only go in woolies when I need christmas decorations or boot soles (or fancy nicking a few sweets out of the pick'n'mix for munching while walking around the shop.. it's not stealing unless you leave with them XD).. heh heh heh £1.99 for another 3 years wear of my fave boots... that kind of stuff.. everything else is crap.
lots of dvd titles though... at top dollar.
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nobrainer
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30. January 2008 @ 04:21 |
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Originally posted by NexGen76:
German retailer discounting Sony BDP-S300 for HD DVD player trade-in
why would you want the bdp-s300 exactly as it will NOT play and BD-r or DVD-r/+r media it has been blocked by sony because of the DRM and their greed. At least HD-DvD allows full playback of media and does NOT include the MPAA global price fixing tool regional coding unlike, Drm-Ray.
Originally posted by myself:
http://esupport.sony.com/US/perl/model-documents.pl?mdl=BDPS300
READ BELOW SONY PDF: Operating Instructions:
http://www.iq.sony.com/srvs/DocsConnect/...ualid=99519&DL=
and lookup "This player can play the following discs and files" and then look at "Examples of discs that the player cannot play" and you will see at the top BD-REs/BD-Rs, neither will it play DVD-RW, DVD-R film backups with stripped css or restructuring or without region coding!
Bluray Recordable Disc Playback being reigned in!!?
Originally posted by hyperlink:
Was always supposed to be restricted, say Bluray insiders!
The news first started to break on the Roxio user forums. One user created a BDMV production (I'll explain further down), which he burned to his Bluray BD-R disc, and then took it to his local electronics store to test on the new Sony BDP 300 player they had just gotten in. ALAS! It wouldn't play. So to help try to figure out what was going on, he posted queries on the Roxio site. To make the situation even more ominous and disturbing, another poster at Roxio reported that his friend at Pioneer had told him that Pioneer had been FORCED by Sony to remove BD-Recordable BDMV playback from their new player coming out, and ALSO that he believes that new players from Panasonic were also similarly affected.
FOR ALL the ppl that think woollies sales matter, LMFAO, right woolworths have the largest monopoly in the highstreet and the largest install base but their hey day was in the 70's and 80's, they are having to close stores as they charge extortionate prices for all media and last year reported a sales revenue drop of over 70%, because amazon and the supermarkets selling cd, dvd and games for around half the cost as woolworths ppl do not purchase media from woolworths unless granny has sent a xmas gift voucher.
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30. January 2008 @ 23:05 |
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Originally posted by hoip:
hmm, i kinda wish woolworths here in aus would sell ps3 (grocery at woolworth here in aus is real cheap) rather than go thru there chain Big W which is kinda a rip.
but i dont think alot ppl in aus realli care abt whether the format is Hd or blue ray because the cheaper one will prevail (mainli hd)
whats so cheap about woolworths in Australia? I couldnt see them being cheaper than Big W if they started to sell HD DVD or BR.
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31. January 2008 @ 06:22 |
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In Australia Woolworths sells DVD's but on a lesser scale to Big-W. Last time I looked Big-W stocks High Definition media (blu-ray/HD-DVD). I haven't checked lately to see if they've stopped stocking HD-DVD. Now, the thing is Woolworths and Big-W are the same company!
After reading through this thread, I am getting a strong feeling that the Woolworths company is completely different to Australia in other parts of the World. In Australia Woolworths is quite strong with a Supermarket and/or Big-W accessible from every metropolitan area (even some rural areas).
The news article mentioned the UK Woolworths, so I'm not sure if it relates to us here.
EDIT: I just saw the very informative post that cousinkix made, so it seems there is no connection at all... :-D
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davidrose
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8. February 2008 @ 01:12 |
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I thought Woolworth's were DROPPED news to me they're even still in business
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19. February 2008 @ 23:58 |
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The change has begun and well hopefully retailers have invested fairly evenly in both formats so that the loss of hd dvd is not very high.
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davidrose
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23. February 2008 @ 10:10 |
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STINKERS HD DVD I wish would ve won 180.00 brick thanks again MS I love you so not much.
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