Amazon has developed an elegant solution — albeit a temporary one — to a problem that has been nagging electronics goods retailers: what to do until the high-definition DVD format struggle reaches its conclusion. For retailers, the unresolved war between Blu-ray and HD DVD formats means they will have to keep two sets of otherwise identical products — DVDs and players — on hand for consumers. An Amazon subsidiary, CustomFlix Labs, has bypassed at least part of this problem.
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Amazon Picks No Favorites in Blu-ray, HD DVD Format Wars
Posted by: Erika Morphy April 25, 2006 02:40 PMAmazon has developed an elegant solution — albeit a temporary one — to a problem that has been nagging electronics goods retailers: what to do until the high-definition DVD format struggle reaches its conclusion. For retailers, the unresolved war between Blu-ray and HD DVD formats means they will have to keep two sets of otherwise identical products — DVDs and players — on hand for consumers. An Amazon subsidiary, CustomFlix Labs, has bypassed at least part of this problem.