On the same day that Netflix announces they are going to go Blu-ray exclusive, Best Buy has announced that they will now be recommending Blu-ray as the preferred format in all of their stores. This is a devastating tag team on HD-DVD. I’m starting to feel bad for them.

While Best Buy won’t completely stop selling HD-DVDs at this point, don’t be surprised if you find them on the bottom shelf of the last row of the DVD section, perhaps hidden behind boxes of labels and all turned around backwards.

Best Buy, like everyone else save Toshiba and perhaps Microsoft, clearly wants to move forward. Here is their COO on the matter:

“Best Buy has always believed that the customer will benefit from a widely accepted single format that would offer advantages such as product compatibility and expanded content choices. Because we believe that Blu-ray is fast emerging as that single format, we have decided to focus on Blu-ray products.”

Poor HD-DVD. Not only is your Prom date not showing up, the Prom is over, the after-Prom is over, and your house is now on fire. It’s time to move on.

More thoughts:

• HD-DVD Takes Baghdad Bob Route, Claims Blu-ray Sales Are a Fluke
  
• If HD-DVD Discs Don’t Exist On Shelves, Do They Still Exist?
• Swan Song Continues: Xbox 360 HD-DVD Drive Discounted Down to $129 – As Low As $79 – Hell, They’re Basically Paying You To Take It
  
• Sony Prepares Cheaper, Smaller Blu-ray Laser, Padded Room Prepared For HD-DVD
• Paramount to Support HD-DVD…Until Those Paramount Blu-ray Discs Are Ready to Sell
• HD-DVD and Blu-ray to Co-Exist Peacefully By 2012? I Say No Way.