Best Buy, the largest US consumer electronics chain, will recommend that consumers choose Sony's Blu-ray high-definition video format.
The decision gives Sony yet another victory in the battle with Toshiba's HD-DVD to be the high-definition DVD format of choice.
On Monday, online video rental company Netflix said it would exclusively stock Blu-ray DVDs after some of the world's biggest movie studios decided in favour of that format.
Best Buy said it believes consumers will benefit from the choice of one HD-DVD format.
"Because we believe that Blu-ray is fast emerging as that single format, we have decided to focus on Blu-ray products," Brian Dunn, Best Buy's president and chief operating officer, said in a statement.
Best Buy will prominently feature Blu-ray hardware and software beginning in March, but will also carry an assortment of HD-DVD products for customers who want those, Best Buy said.
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