Things have gone from bad to worse for HD DVD in the space of one week.
Wal-Mart Stores announced on Friday morning that it, too, has chosen a side in the battle for high-definition video supremacy: by June, it will stock only Blu-ray Disc players.
A buyer in Wal-Mart's video division wrote this morning on her Wal-Mart Checkout blog that the retail giant had made the decision following Netflix and Best Buy's high-profile announcements that they will exclusively stock Blu-ray products.
Gary Severson, senior vice president, Home Entertainment, Wal-Mart has since confirmed to blu-ray.com: "We've listened to our customers, who are showing a clear preference toward Blu-ray products and movies with their purchases."
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EK Cooling allegedly has slipped itself into a hot soup of seemingly endless financial woes, where it has not paid its staff, suppliers, and contractors for many months as the company is facing liquidity problems and a surplus of inventory left unsold, stuck in the warehouse for a more extended period. Gamers Nexus investigated these claims made by former and current personnel, where he found trails of unpaid bills lasting as long as three to four months and unpaid raises that accumulated for almost a year.
EK Water Blocks has two entities—a Slovenian-based headquarters and a US-based subsidiary, EK Cooling Solutions. Steve narrated the series of events in detail, stating that the company was reportedly irresponsible and negligent regarding payment. Consequently, partners and employees are forced to share the burden of alleged mismanagement. It all begins with its extensive range of products, leading to a surplus of goods. EK has over 230 water blocks, 40 liquid cooling kits, 85 reservoirs, 40 pumps, 73 radiators, and 212 miscellaneous accessories.
Yes this is not about video games directly but indirectly this will impact the pc gaming/workstation space hard.
This company is massive one of two in the water cool space so if it goes poof then thousands out there have no spare parts or half built computers.
SO yeah i know not about a video game but think of it as amd leaving the pc space but this is ekwb that could be leaving water cooling in the pc space
Jayz2cents a supporter of there products also has issues
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As someone that has built a watercooling rig. EK is big, but there's so many numerous watercooling part companies out there. EK's stuff isn't exactly amazing quality for the price compared to others either, it's just ok. Much like Corsair. The impact would be negligible long term. For perspective the majority of my parts are XSPC, at most I use EK for my gpu waterblocks and fittings. Both easily replaceable.
it over, its done, bye bye HD DVD.
but lets wait for toshiba to say that this news in "unfortunate" and "the customer still needs a chance to pick"...etc
If anyone here is still hopeful that HD dvd will win the format war after reading then i will be baffled.
Thank God, another "HD-DVD is dead" article.
I was starting to worry that people might forget Blu-Ray has won without a daily reminder.
whatever Wal-Mart Sells, wins, with this Universal and Paramount better Jump immediately, before they start to lose money.
"We are disappointed to hear this unfortunate news that Wal Mart has decided to stop stocking HD-DVD's. We believe the reason is due to there color being Blue just like Blu Ray, however we are still pleased to have K Mart stocking HD-DVD's as they are red just like our color."