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By Susanne Ault and Jennifer Netherby

Stores dedicate more space, marketing to high-def discs

Retailers are going mainstream with their marketing and merchandising efforts for high-definition discs as the number of titles released across the HD DVD and Blu-ray Disc formats approaches 1,000.

Amazon.com, Best Buy, Trans World, Virgin Megastores and others are promoting both formats, unwilling to potentially snub a portion of their early adopter consumers.

'Our feeling is that we should continue to supply both until the customers tell us t