HD DVD Suffers Some Bad Blows Today

Even as Toshiba marches bravely forward with very low HD DVD player prices, rival Blu-ray scored some more coups today as the post-Warner departure continues to impact the format war:

• Best Buy will begin pushing Blu-ray to consumers over HD DVD, though HD DVD fans will not be out of luck as the retailer will continue selling HD DVD products.
• Netflix is getting out of the HD DVD online rental business all together. It said by year's end it will phase out its existing HD DVD stock. Perhaps that will mean some nice HD DVD disc fire sales?