That may be a question we will begin asking ourselves soon. Electronista is reporting that several retail chains will start pushing Blu-ray discs ahead of their HD-DVD counterparts in stores. This despite the major price-cuts HD-DVD has seen in recent weeks hoping to offset the growing belief that they have lost the format war. HD-DVD for now is still refusing to yield, and they may very well keep talking up their format until the last HD-DVD boxes are shipped back to them, unsold.

As if they needed any more writing on the wall, the early 2008 sales numbers are looking very bad for HD-DVD. The format apparently only accounted for only 15% of high-definition disc sales in early January and failed to land a single title on the best-sellers list – all were Blu-ray discs. Meanwhile the first Paramount Blu-ray discs are starting to pop up for pre-sale on Amazon beginning in March – this could be an error, but could just as likely be an indication of what I wrote a couple weeks ago: that Paramount would support HD-DVD…until those Blu-ray discs are ready to sell.

When 90% of HD-DVD sales come from the back of some dude’s van is the HD-DVD camp still going to be holding firm?