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http://money.cnn.com/2008/02/15/tech...ion=2008021511 NY (CNNMoney.com) -- National discount store Wal-Mart introduced Friday that it'd chose to just offer Sony's Blu-ray hi-definition film discs, and will phase out Toshiba's competitive HD-DVD prepared discs next many months. Wal-Mart stated that by June, its 4,000 Wal-Mart and Sam's Club stores could provide only Blu-ray disks and Blu-ray equipment people. Blu-ray and Toshiba's HD-DVD structure aren't suitable. "We have paid attention to our clients, who're showing a clear choice toward Blu-ray goods and films using their purchases," mentioned Gary Severson, Wal-Mart's Senior Vice President of Home Theatre in a record. Apple TELEVISION versus. Blu-ray: How can they heap up? Wal-Mart said it'd continue selling HD-DVD goods, but within the next thirty days, clients might find a substantial change in focus to Blu-ray in both brick-and-mortar stores and on the web. The store said it'll continue steadily to market standard-definition equipment and DVDs. Wal-Mart may be the latest film merchant to select Blu-ray over HD-DVD. Early in the day this week, on the web film hire organization Netflix (NFLX) declared its support for Blu-ray, and said it'd cycle out HD-DVD as well. Movie marketers Walt Disney (DIS, Fortune 500), Sony's Sony Pictures, News Corp.'s (NWS, Fortune 500) Twentieth Century Fox, and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer have all recommended Blu-ray. In a competition that mirrors the Betamax-VHS challenge of the 1970s, Sony (SNE) and Toshiba have now been fighting one another to determine the industry's hi-definition video standard. The success might find an increase in the purchase of equipment needed seriously to play the disks. And that, gentlemen and ladies, may be the conclusion of HD DVD.