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posted on 12 February 2008 10:11

Blue Ray has just received a boost at HD-DVD's expense.

The US's biggest consumer electronics retail chain, Best Buy, has said it will recommend the Sony-backed Blu-Ray high definition video disk format to its customers.

Blu-Ray will be more prominently displayed than HD-DVD products which will still be stocked. It's not a wipeout by any means.

At the same time US DVD rental company Netflix said it would wipeout its DVD stock and be exclusively Blu-Ray from now on.

The high-definition video disk market is no longer about Blu-Ray or HD-DVD domination. That dispute is over and Blu-Ray has the crown. It is about how far can Blu-Ray go and how well Toshiba manages HD-DVD's decline. Can it make money or should Toshiba pull the plug and cede the field to Sony?