The “Break it Down” Blog

Laurence Hartje just sent in news that Netflix has decided to go Blu-ray as a response to the trend of other major studios doing the same.

While you can still add HD-DVD movies to your queue as of this morning, I don’t know how much longer those disks will stay in circulation. My guess is that Netflix will either sell them off dirt cheap or let them run their course and through attrition simply not replaced the damage ones as they come back ruined.

Update #1: Todd Swarthout just sent in an email he got from Netflix notifying him of the change (we haven’t received ours yet), quoted below:

We’re Going Blu-ray
Dear Todd,

You’re receiving this email because you have asked to receive
high-definition movies in the HD DVD format. As you may have heard,
most of the major movie studios have recently decided to release their
high-definition movies exclusively in the Blu-ray format. In order to
provide the best selection of high-definition titles for our members,
we have decided to go exclusively with Blu-ray as well.

While we will continue to make our current selection of HD DVD titles
available to you for the next several months, we will not be adding
additional HD DVD titles or reordering replacements.

Toward the end of February, HD DVDs in your Saved Queue will
automatically be changed to standard definition DVDs. Then toward the
end of this year, all HD DVDs in your Queue will be changed to
standard definition DVDs. Don’t worry, we will contact you before this
happens.

You can click here to change your format preferences.

We’re sorry for any inconvenience. If you have any questions or need
further assistance, please call us at 1 (888) 638-3549.

-The Netflix Team