An interesting email from Netflix just arrived:

You're receiving this email because you have asked to receive high-definition movies in the HD DVD format. As you may have heard, most of the major movie studios have recently decided to release their high-definition movies exclusively in the Blu-ray format. In order to provide the best selection of high-definition titles for our members, we have decided to go exclusively with Blu-ray as well.

While we will continue to make our current selection of HD DVD titles available to you for the next several months, we will not be adding additional HD DVD titles or reordering replacements.

Toward the end of February, HD DVDs in your Saved Queue will automatically be changed to standard definition DVDs. Then toward the end of this year, all HD DVDs in your Queue will be changed to standard definition DVDs. Don't worry, we will contact you before this happens.

They could have shortened the email to just “Instead of buying 2 copies (one for each coast) of HD-DVD movies for our customers, we will now be buying none copies”

Just got this myself...

. . . I don't know if this is another horse or just a pony, but, according to The Digital Bits, beginning this March, Best Buy will "Officially" recommend Blu-Ray as "the customer's Digital Format Choice" and bestow upon it all of the honors implied by such a title - you know, store placement, staff recommendations, bells, whistles - they will continue to carry HD-DVD but you might need to journey to the sub-basement and sort through the boxes yourself . . . I was pleased to read in another Digital Bits entry that Warner will issue Blu-Ray's of their classic films as they create the Special Editions of the future . . .