To be fair, the story is not a fake...A_S just doesn't know how to create a link properly.  The story is at The Digital Handyman website (you have to scroll down a bit to find it):

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Blockbuster's decision to support Blu-ray in all of its 1,450 stores is having a bigger impact than it seems. A tipster at an unnamed retailer tells us they've had more HD DVD player orders canceled over the last few days than they've seen over the entire life cycle. The kicker? All of them were canceled because of the Blockbuster announcement.

Not only that, new sales of HD DVD players are nonexistent, with Blu-ray being the only things moving now.

The more tech savvy of us rent our stuff on Netflix or Blockbuster Online (which is still supporting both formats for now), but this announcement—covered in many mainstream media sources—had a big impact on people who actually rent at Blockbuster.

Any of you tipsters working at other retail outlets see something similar? Email us if you have. – Jason Chen

"A tipster at an unnamed retailer"...well doesn't that sound like rock solid evidence.  100% rumor.  For all we know, A_S could have been the 'tipster'.

To A_S, tell me again how all you are doing is spreading the truth...seems like all you are doing is spreading rumors and speculation.  I have said it before and I will say it again...the only person you are fooling is yourself.

Quoting Battling Butler:

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Quoting Ascended_Saiyan:

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HD DVD player orders are being canceled after Blockbuster's announcement.

A-S this is an outright lie and fabricated link.  I guess you've run out of "facts" so now you're just making sh*t up.

Pathetic 

Nope.  The link just won't allow it to be cut and pasted without going through their search engine.

http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/hd-dvd-on-the-way-out%3F/blockbusters-blu+ray-endorsement-having-major-impact-on-hd-dvd-player-sales-270313.php

Try that one on.


Here are die hard HD DVD fans admitting defeat is on the horizon.  A lot of them are past their denial phase now.

Universal Studios last couple of waves of HD DVD releases (only 1 gets a 4 star PQ rating)

Sneakers

Liar Liar

Daylight

Bruce Almighty

Breach

Dragonheart

The River

Lost in Translation

The Frighteners

Midnight Run

Smokey and the Bandit

Quoting Ascended_Saiyan:

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Quoting Battling Butler:

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Quoting Ascended_Saiyan:

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HD DVD player orders are being canceled after Blockbuster's announcement.

A-S this is an outright lie and fabricated link.  I guess you've run out of "facts" so now you're just making sh*t up.

Pathetic 

Nope.  The link just won't allow it to be cut and pasted without going through their search engine.

http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/hd-dvd-on-the-way-out%3F/blockbusters-blu+ray-endorsement-having-major-impact-on-hd-dvd-player-sales-270313.php

Try that one on.


Here are die hard HD DVD fans admitting defeat is on the horizon.  A lot of them are past their denial phase now.

FOAD

Quoting Ascended_Saiyan:

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Quoting Battling Butler:

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Quoting Ascended_Saiyan:

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HD DVD player orders are being canceled after Blockbuster's announcement.

A-S this is an outright lie and fabricated link.  I guess you've run out of "facts" so now you're just making sh*t up.

Pathetic 

Nope.  The link just won't allow it to be cut and pasted without going through their search engine.

http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/hd-dvd-on-the-way-out%3F/blockbusters-blu+ray-endorsement-having-major-impact-on-hd-dvd-player-sales-270313.php

Try that one on.


Here are die hard HD DVD fans admitting defeat is on the horizon.  A lot of them are past their denial phase now.

"A tipster at an unnamed retailer tells us they've had more HD DVD player orders canceled over the last few days than they've seen over the entire life cycle."


Yes A_S, there's no doubt about it ... you're the undisputed king of unsupported rumors, fan-boy gossip,  speculation, Blu-ray propaganda, junk news, and just plain crap. 

Quoting Dr. Killpatient:

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Information that comes from unidentified/unverifiable sources shouldn't be posted.

No, they ought to be posted, so we can point at them and laugh...



... and laugh, and laugh.

HD DVD came out of the bat last year delivering lots of top notch encodes and Blu-ray came out with a player with noise reduction turned on full blast and several poor transfers.
Now both formats have their game under control, or do they?

It's been a year since Blu-ray was launched.  Here's a look at the first 20 reviews for HD DVD and Blu-ray up against the last 20 reviews.

For this, High Def Digest, Home Theater Spot, Home Theater Forum and DVD Talk were used.

The First 20 Reviews

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HD DVD  PQ SQ TOTAL
TOTALS 4.03 3.73 3.88

Blu-ray PQ SQ TOTAL
TOTALS 3.51 3.71 3.61

Now, The Last 20 Reviews

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HD DVD  PQ SQ TOTAL
TOTALS 3.66 3.54 3.60

Blu-ray PQ SQ TOTAL
TOTALS 4.09 3.94 4.01

Very interesting. 

This includes Upcoming Discs reviews as well.

By Studio

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PQ Studio
4.17 Buena Vista
4.02 Paramount
3.98 Warner
3.91 Sony
3.84 Fox
3.80 Weinstein
3.79 Universal
3.65 Lionsgate

SQ Studio
4.37 Buena Vista
4.10 Sony
4.08 Fox
3.85 Lionsgate
3.84 Paramount
3.69 Universal
3.63 Warner
3.63 Weinstein

Very interesting indeed. 

I still don't know what the numbers mean.