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i agree leo but i wouldnt buy any unless your buying a ps3, because currently hd dvd is winning in ALONE systems, the only reason blue ray is winning cause of ps3 having blue ray, that and there are a few more people behind blueray

but untill either hd dvd gives up (dont see it happening unless universal and them give up on it) but who knows who and maybe hd dvd will take the lead and blue ray will quit, only time will tell but till then im not buying either (except when i eventually get a ps3 next year or so).

At this point i can see people just buying those danm players that can play both since no one is giving up



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Report from the sales of 300.

http://blogs.usatoday.com/technologylive/2007/08/blu-ray-continu.html



Spiderman 3 as well as the complete Spiderman trilogy are coming to Blu-Ray this holiday season.

http://www.highdefdigest.com/news/show/Sony/Disc_Announcements/Complete_Details_Revealed_for_Spider-Man_3_Blu-ray/840



BD spanked HD on 300 sales by the way.



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When do you see HD DVD+BD outselling DVD? Never?



stranne said:
When do you see HD DVD+BD outselling DVD? Never?
You know people used to say the same thing about VHS, and casette tapes...and records...and 8-tracks...and floppy discs...and CD's with computer games...and CD's with videogames...

 



We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half full of cocaine, a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers…Also a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of beer, a pint of raw ether and two dozen amyls.  The only thing that really worried me was the ether.  There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge. –Raoul Duke

It is hard to shed anything but crocodile tears over White House speechwriter Patrick Buchanan's tragic analysis of the Nixon debacle. "It's like Sisyphus," he said. "We rolled the rock all the way up the mountain...and it rolled right back down on us...."  Neither Sisyphus nor the commander of the Light Brigade nor Pat Buchanan had the time or any real inclination to question what they were doing...a martyr, to the bitter end, to a "flawed" cause and a narrow, atavistic concept of conservative politics that has done more damage to itself and the country in less than six years than its liberal enemies could have done in two or three decades. -Hunter S. Thompson

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stranne said:
When do you see HD DVD+BD outselling DVD? Never?

 well combined sales just past VHS which is huge. DVD sales are slowing due to the HD formats so I figure as the formats get cheaper DVD sales die.



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akuma587 said:
stranne said:
When do you see HD DVD+BD outselling DVD? Never?
You know people used to say the same thing about VHS, and casette tapes...and records...and 8-tracks...and floppy discs...and CD's with computer games...and CD's with videogames...

 


I didn't mean that DVD will sell forever, but that HD DVD/BD won't overtake DVD before something else takes over. Like downloads. Maybe. At least I'm fed up with plastic discs.

 I think it will take 7-10 years, and by then most places have fast wireless...it will be interesting.

 



stranne said:
akuma587 said:
stranne said:
When do you see HD DVD+BD outselling DVD? Never?
You know people used to say the same thing about VHS, and casette tapes...and records...and 8-tracks...and floppy discs...and CD's with computer games...and CD's with videogames...

 


I didn't mean that DVD will sell forever, but that HD DVD/BD won't overtake DVD before something else takes over. Like downloads. Maybe. At least I'm fed up with plastic discs.

I think it will take 7-10 years, and by then most places have fast wireless...it will be interesting.

 


 And if I have a HD fail does tha tmean that I end up with nothing to show for those downloads?  Will they make me have to rebuy all my movies if something happens like that?  I'd rather have a hard disk where I can always go to in order to see my movies instead of relying on a HD to not fail.  Sooner or later they fail, and when they do, it won't be fun.



 


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akuma587 said:
Spiderman 3 as well as the complete Spiderman trilogy are coming to Blu-Ray this holiday season.

http://www.highdefdigest.com/news/show/Sony/Disc_Announcements/Complete_Details_Revealed_for_Spider-Man_3_Blu-ray/840



BD spanked HD on 300 sales by the way.

 65% to 35% is not spanking. It is outselling, but not spanking. PS2 vs every other 6th gen system was spanking.

 BTW, if this format war is holding back HD, then how can an HD film sell 250,000 total copies in one week, after just a year into this format war? It seems this format war is helping HD more than hindering. I noticed most gamers didn't really give a you-know-what until it turned into Sony vs Microsoft.



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akuma587 said:
vizunary said:
 

1Paramount18.8%$1,151.81410
2Warner Bros.15.3%$936.52212
3Buena Vista14.7%$901.2168
4Sony / Columbia14.4%$880.71714
520th Century Fox11.1%$679.5179
6Universal10.2%$628.81311

 


This is why HD-DVD will lose. Box office sales are a very good indicator of DVD sales. Universal is in last place, and they are the only one supporting HD-DVD exclusively. Buena Vista, Sony/Columbia, and 20th Century Fox all have higher totals than Universal, and all support Blu-Ray exclusively.


 What do you mean by lose? Do you mean simply be outsold, which seems likely, or that it will disappear? If you mean the latter, your claim has a problem. A format has to lose money to disappear, as DivX did to DVD. Betamax lost in the home market, but still lasted for years, and even had greater sales in the professional video market.



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