Though it’s just from a “tipster”, Gizmodo is reporting that since Blockbuster announced a couple days ago that they would only be stocking Blu-ray discs in their stores, sales of HD-DVD players have grinded to a halt – with many people even canceling orders!

As I said two days ago, I thought this announcement was a huge deal simply from a public perception standpoint – and if this news is true it would definitely speak to that. You’re an average person and you hear “fire!”, you’re going to run out of the building. You’re an average consumer and you hear the name synonymous with movie rentals is going with Blu-ray, you’re going to run out of the HD-DVD section at Best Buy.

The war still isn’t over – remember that just last week HD-DVD was claiming a major sales win over its Blu brethren. But this Blockbuster thing is bigger than that – another one of these announcements could potentially seal a path to victory.

Now if we could just get some back catalogue movies on either format finally, I could finally get around to choosing sides. It would also definitely help if Microsoft jumped ship and released a Blu-ray add-on for the 360…