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Toshiba HD DVD players on clearance at Walmart?

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Over at Digital Bits, they have revealed some interesting pictures of Toshiba HD DVD players on clearance at Walmart. Now dont jump to conclusions but is this just a one off, or are other Walmart stores going to follow. There's only one way to find out. Wait and see.
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TruthBTold - 693 days 16 hours ago
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1 - This is in no way anything posititve for HDDVD
Having a item being put on the clearence section can only mean they dont want it anymore in the store and will sacrifice some money in order to get rid of it.
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resistance100 - 693 days 15 hours ago
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Could they be doing a Circit City, Toshbia haven't annouced a 4th gen player so this could mean they are dropping the format all together
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niall77 - 693 days 15 hours ago
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3 - that would be the FINAL nail in coffin of HD DVD
nothing ever sells without walmart
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mighty_douche - 693 days 15 hours ago
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3.1 -
i love you US dudes... the world is much bigger than America.
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Bleyd - 693 days 15 hours ago
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3.2 - I have one word
for everyone that's outside of the US that makes, literally, "the world" of difference when it comes to the movie industry.

Are you ready for it?

Hollywood

Where is Hollywood again?
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mighty_douche - 693 days 15 hours ago
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oops
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Bleyd - 693 days 15 hours ago
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It's all good dude. :)
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4 nevelo07 | 693 days 15 hours ago - User only got 1 bubble - Show
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testerg35 - 693 days 15 hours ago
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5 - What would be funny....
Would be funny that because of these clearance sales, HD-DVD gets a sudden surge and beat blu-ray in hardware and movie sales.
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Alcaponeyou - 693 days 15 hours ago
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5.1 - Only if...
we are all half retarded.
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SmokeyMcBear - 693 days 15 hours ago
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5.2 - ....
too bad you cant find any new movies on hd dvd..
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PoeBoy - 693 days 12 hours ago
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5.3 - Huh?
@ SmokeyMcBear

You should really know what your talking about before you try and make a point...

Here are a few "NEW" movies for HD DVD's

American Gangster
Beowulf
Michael Clayton
Bourne Ultimatum
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Rims - 693 days 15 hours ago
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Is anyone actually surprised?
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7 Mandangoof | 693 days 15 hours ago - User only got 1 bubble - Show
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KILLERAPP - 693 days 14 hours ago
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well another week another special.
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gamesblow - 693 days 14 hours ago
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A few more of these clearance sales and the entire Hd-dvd stock will be depleted. "ha" Keep in mind major retailers aren't ordering more stock, either. IT's gonna be a Blu year, folks.
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GodsHand - 693 days 14 hours ago
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I say use the Hd Dvd players to build houses for the homeless.
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JosefTor - 693 days 13 hours ago
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Why would you ever wish bankruptcy on anyone? Especially Toshiba who developed a consumer friendly format??? To me I feel deeply sorry they lost but I congratulate them for the good effort in the face of adversity. If things had only been slightly different... things could have easily swung in their favor.

On a personal note... I can't wait for the replacement of physical media. Do you know how many movies I have rented or even just bought and the player has trouble reading some part of the disc. DVD's are unreliable at best. I doubt that Blu ray or HD-DVD would have fixed that.
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General McNugget - 693 days 10 hours ago
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I can confirm my Walmart is clearing house of HD-DVD players. We still had some left from Black Friday and a secret Xmas sale, both the HD-A2 and HD-A3 we have left are going for $148. We originally sold the HD-A2 for $298 when we first got it and the HD-A3 goes for $398.

We still get HD-DVDs though.
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whoelse - 693 days 10 hours ago
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Do you work there?
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akaFullMetal - 693 days 3 hours ago
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we wont see any real significants til warners movies start to go blu exclusive, so batman and i am legend plus others are really going to turn people blu, when they notice they cant get it on hd-dvd.
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TheExodus - 693 days 2 hours ago
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This is only bad news for HD DVD if you want to interpret it as bad news for HD DVD. Fact is the only thing it indicates is that the holidays are over. Wal-mart isn't in the business of filling their shelves with inventory that doesn't turn over & HD players (Blu-ray & HD DVD) aren't exactly flying off shelves anywhere.
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aiphanes - 692 days 21 hours ago
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14.1 - HD-DVD is dead...walmart is clearing stock of a dead format...
There is now other way to spin this...after may 2008 70 percent of HD movies in 1080p can only be seen on bluray....Microsoft and apple digital downloads are not full HD, they are highly compressed 720p movies with questionable audio and video quality.

Bluray discs have a special coating that is scratch proof, so these discs are gonna last longer than HD-DVD or DVD and CD discs.

Bluray will take over and replace DVDs also...in a few years...Digital Distribution will be more mainstream when everybody get at least a 30 to 80 meg connection with no download cap...
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