Atlantis returns! Plus is This The End For HD-DVD?

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Today in the national headlines: Atlantis returns! Plus is this the end for HD DVD?

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The space shuttle Atlantis returned to Kennedy Space Center

today after a 5 million mile journey. The seven astronauts on

board were all in good health and glad to be back on the

ground, especially NASA astronaut Daniel Tani who was on board

the international space station for 120 days! The return

highlights a successful delivery of a new European lab to the

space station, and despite some minor technical problems,

everything went off without a hitch. NASA next mission is only

3 weeks away when the first piece of Japan's new space station

lab is sent into orbit.

The battle to be the one and only high definition DVD format

took a decisive victory for Blu Ray fans. WalMart stores Inc.

have decided to sell Blu ray format DVD exclusively, and will

begin phasing out all HD DVD products immediately. As the

world's largest retailer with over 4,000 stores in the U.S.,

it comes as a win for Sony and devastating blow to the already

falling HD DVD technology developed by Toshiba. Many consumers

were frustrated by having two similar options for the new HD

expereience, and instead of trying to support both types of

technology, the people have spoken and they chose BLURAY.

Other large electronics chains to join the Blu Ray movement

include Best Buy and Netflix. PLUS, Warner Brothers, 20th

Century Fox, Walt Disney, and Lionsgate have all announced

they will release only in blu ray format as well. AND yes

there is more, Microsoft has even said that if consumer demand

is high enough, they will start converting the Xbox 360 from

HD DVD to Blu ray as well (which is one of the major selling

points of the Playstation 3).

You just heard some top stories from Get the daily.com. I'm

Andrea Rene and thanks for watching.

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[jordanthewizard]

@ShurikenSpammer, no it would be the orange ring of death.

[FilMarck]

@ShurikenSpammer Microsoft said no to Blu-Ray.

[Arthaius]

What I would like to see people actually doing is developing a player that will play HD-DVD AND Blu-ray, because they would probably make a very lucrative business - I have dozens of DVDs and honestly think its unfair to have to buy new machines, then my old stuff wont work - I would however be willing to purchase a player that I could still use all my old movies on, while also being able to play new Blu-ray discs as well

I dunno, it's very frustrating

[ShurikenSpammer]

omg can u imagine microsoft trying to get a blu-ray player in there xbox. birth of the yellow ring of death!

[Chief122]

Nice big collars!

[caseyndbecky]

well im not gonna buy another xbox if they switch to blu ray or will i

[niyooh]

Well...we don't have Wal-Mart, Best-Buy or Netflix here. Nobody has spoken lady, only the big companies have spoken.

[sneeoosh2]

good scoup on Xbox 360 Blue Ray.