World's largest retailer, Wal-Mart, going Blu-ray

The pieces are falling into place. It shouldn't be too long before Toshiba and the rest of the HD DVD group call it quits (check out the latest rumor). Especially with this piece of news: the world's largest public corporation, Wal-Mart, is planning on becoming a Blu-ray exclusive distributor. This comes just a few days after a similar announcement from video rental service Netflix.

According to Check Out (an official Wal-Mart blog), "by June Wal-Mart will only be carrying Blu-ray movies and hardware machines, and of course standard def movies, DVD players, and up convert players. Not sure of the short term pricing plans, but history tells us that as more people move to a new technology prices typically go down."

This news should come as a relief to those following the format war. We're relieved as well, because it means that we're one step closer to not having to write anymore format war news again in the future. Can't wait until we have the headline: "it's really over, folks."

[Thanks, Brian!]