Japanese stores stop selling HD DVD
Posted on 22/02/08 16:49 by Tim Stork                             
Japanese stores stop selling HD DVD

Japanese electronic stores have stopped selling HD DVD machines after the format was officially defeated by Sony's Blu-ray. As from today six major retailers in Japan - Yodobashi Camera, Kojima, Nojima, Edion, Best Denki and Joshin Denki - have stopped selling HD DVD and are in talks with Toshiba for the giant to take back its stock.

Edion, a retailer with a 1,000 stores across Japan, announced an offer for everybody who bought HD DVD hardware from Toshiba. In March all these people can switch their HD DVD player for a Blu-ray machine sold by Sony, Panasonic or Sharp.

Other stores continue selling HD DVD hardware at a reduced price, but actions like above show the drama around Toshiba's format.

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By Vlad (guest), Fri 22 Feb 2008 17:40
HD-DVD is really dead format. Miscarriage.
By Dennis_Olof, Fri 22 Feb 2008 19:41
This is good news. Why can't everyone else do this. So that everyone who bought a HD-DVD player could exchange it for bly-ray.
By Cubeman (guest), Fri 22 Feb 2008 21:11
\"Toshiba said it has sold 30,000 HD DVD decks in Japan, accounting for only five percent of its HD DVD sales across the world.\" That is why they are doing it. Many more sold in the states so we will never see something like that.
By koba, Sat 23 Feb 2008 11:29
kobaWell Edion can offer the exchange because only 10% of next gen DVD players/recorders they sold where HD-DVD, the rest (90%) where Bluray. So Edion will make some loss but not much. Other retailers in Japan do not offer such an exchange program at the moment.

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