Blu-ray Wins!

According to the NY Times article: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/16/technology/16toshiba.html?_r=1&oref=slogin, if you were planning on buying a high-definition DVD player, you can finally pick one without worrying it will someday be obsolete. After Walmart's decision to only sell Blu-ray formats for their DVD players, it has the most support and enough to make it unofficially seem to have won the war against Toshiba's format: HD DVD. Although this is a sad moment for Toshiba, it sure is nice to finally have only one format to pick from. Not only was this annoying for the consumers, but retailers and movie studios will be excited too because they won't have to shelve and produce two formats anymore. It is also important to end this war quickly because of the increase in downloading movies online. The battle between the two formats gave people the time to start playing with the internet and becoming more comfortable with it. The faster they can get a single format, the more likely Sony can get consumers to come back to DVDs and slow down the online market. Downloading movies is not a huge threat right now, but those in the industry know that it could become one in the future.