Wal-Mart announced today that its Wal-Mart and Sam’s Clubs stores were going to start phasing out HD-DVD and only sell Blu-Ray.

Wal-Mart said that by June, its 4,000 Wal-Mart and Sam’s Club stores would sell only Blu-ray discs and Blu-ray hardware players. Blu-ray and Toshiba’s HD-DVD format are not compatible.

“We’ve listened to our customers, who are showing a clear preference toward Blu-ray products and movies with their purchases,” said Gary Severson, Wal-Mart’s Senior Vice President of Home Entertainment in a statement.

Still unknown as of press time is whether Wal-Mart cares about communities by treating employees like garbage and/or aggressively forcing out small, independently owned businesses.

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