Final Days Of HD-DVD?

Things again aren't looking too good for HD-DVD. News sites and blog have been posting rumors since yesterday regarding Toshiba's plans to discontinue the format. Even Thomas K Arnold over at Home Media Retailing seems to think this will happen.
Poor Jodi Sally from Toshiba included this response regarding the 'death watch.'
“Given the market developments in the past month, Toshiba will continue to study the market impact and the value proposition for consumers, particularly in light of our recent price reductions on all HD DVD players."
Players and movies are being hugely discounted at several retailers, including Amazon, where they are offering 150 HD-DVD movies at 50% off.
Just this morning, it became known that Wal-Mart has decided to discontinue HD-DVD and carry Blu-ray exclusively in it's stores by June of this year, according to it's official blog.
This may be a final nail in the coffin for HD-DVD, as it would represent that practically all brick and mortar retailers are now firmly behind the Blu-ray format.

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