Wal-Mart, the nation’s largest retailer has decided to call it quits on Toshiba’s HD-DVD format, signaling what seems to be the end of the hi-def format war. Read more…

The Internet and mailbox movie delivery super-service known as Netflix, having seen a “clear signal from the industry” has decided to stop purchasing HD-DVDs and will exclusively support Blu-Ray. Read more…

The format war seems to be settling on whether or not Blu-ray or HD-DVD is the choice for the upcoming years. But what about an Xbox that plays Blu-ray movies? Read more…

As many 360 owners already know, the console does not come equipped with Wi-Fi capability out of the box. This had me fuming from day one, as it forced me to run a Cat 5 cable from my room to the router, a good 25 feet away. Read more…

The format war race has just gotten a little uglier with Microsoft offering $150 million to Paramount Pictures and Dreamworks for what they are calling “promotional consideration”. In short, the aforementioned studios have agreed to an exclusive HD-DVD deal that will run for 18 months.

If Microsoft dishes out that kind of dough for consideration of a product, you gotta ask yourself what they would be willing to offer for a “no questions asked — you do what we tell you for as long as we tell you” agreement.

A little over a week ago Sony reported sales numbers for its slow-out-of-the-gate PlayStation 3, pegging units sold in the three months to June at 710,000. This is compared to the unexpected success of the Wii–still tough to find on store shelves–which sold 3.43 million units in the same period.

Sony tried to look at the glass as half full, noting that they sell each PS3 at a loss so the low sales numbers actually worked out to mean less money lost than they had expected. Read more…