There are five Walmarts in my region. None of them have ever carried Blu-Ray players. They carry the Playstation 3. The Blu-Ray selection sits there un-bought for the most part and the HD DVDs are rarely in stock. There are a few HD-A3 HD DVD players in each store now, but before Christmas they didn't have anything Hi-Def. They had the big shipment of Toshiba HD-A2 players for $99 in November, and I bought one of them. Score one for a major bargain.
They sold a lot of them nationwide, thus the demand for the HD DVD discs that they rarely have in stock.

Of course, all the payers upscale SD DVDs really well and this is where the current market lies now in terms of this manufactured "war" no one is interested in. Less than one percent of sales are Hi-Def and unless someone wakes up and gives the customer what they want (low prices) the war is over and SD DVD wins by a landslide. That the "other thread" could generate over 200 posts consisting of mindless banter over theoretical specs and childish insults lobbed back and forth at one another over stupid movie discs defies belief.

Enjoy your war.

John