"I will now be officially canceling my Blockbuster account. I want choice and convenience, and limiting my choices looses my patronage."
(see above statement) perhaps i should have worded it differently then. what i should have said is you are throwing a hissy fit over this. "I want HD! I dont like BluRay! If I cant rent one, then i wont rent any! Screw you for not offering me a doomed format because you want to save money in the long run due to your company being in dire straits financially!" thats the equivalent of what you have stated. BB is doing very badly financially. they were on the verge of bankruptcy not too long ago. any little thing they can do to save money they have to do. why would they stock up on something that is already showing signs of failure? if you honestly, and i mean 100% dont believe that HD-DVD is going to lose/has already lost this "war" then you are delusional. an example-HD-DVD was kicking the crap out of BluRay in Europe. THEN, ps3 launched and the very next month, BD is outselling HD every single week from launch til present by a margin of nearly 3 to 1 discs each time. that alone has shown BB, im sure, that the format to side with is clearly the one with the larger market share. they have to take a risk with it either way, so they are going with the safer choice.
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"I will now be officially canceling my Blockbuster account. I want choice and convenience, and limiting my choices looses my patronage."
(see above statement)
perhaps i should have worded it differently then. what i should have said is you are throwing a hissy fit over this. "I want HD! I dont like BluRay! If I cant rent one, then i wont rent any! Screw you for not offering me a doomed format because you want to save money in the long run due to your company being in dire straits financially!" thats the equivalent of what you have stated. BB is doing very badly financially. they were on the verge of bankruptcy not too long ago. any little thing they can do to save money they have to do. why would they stock up on something that is already showing signs of failure? if you honestly, and i mean 100% dont believe that HD-DVD is going to lose/has already lost this "war" then you are delusional. an example-HD-DVD was kicking the crap out of BluRay in Europe. THEN, ps3 launched and the very next month, BD is outselling HD every single week from launch til present by a margin of nearly 3 to 1 discs each time. that alone has shown BB, im sure, that the format to side with is clearly the one with the larger market share. they have to take a risk with it either way, so they are going with the safer choice.