| dallas said: Stever, and ookaze, y'all are really saying the same thing, about the YTD sales pointing to blu-ray's dominance ( or relative dominance) and that prices won't affect this.
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if youre referring to HD DVD outselling BD in Europe as " the rest of the world is going HD DVD" then thats pathetic.
Australia largest retailer JB HiFi is only stocking BD, Japan is saturated with BD more than HD DVD and the european numbers were at something like 45,000 total HD DVD discs with 25k for HD DVD or something liek that......
I just dont see where the rest of the world is adopting HD DVD.
JB Hi Fi
http://www.itwire.com.au/content/view/9548/52/
Japan, last paragraph
http://www.blu-ray.com/news/?id=117
Europe , 5th paragraph down, beginning with hardware
http://money.cnn.com/news/newsfeeds/articles/newstex/RBI-0086-15335808.htm
I dont see global domination......and heres another link that recently cameout about euro studio support http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18013123/ .....however, when we see that these independent studios are acting on production cost, we can assume they are only wary of pooling money into a format war. as cite din the article these independant studios make up small portions of total european sales, i would HARDLY say that this justifies what you call "the rest of the world choosing HD DVD"
i mean, unless there are some missing news articles out there that i havent read in the last 9 months since ive been following this stuff.
EDIT: might i add the current articles concering HD DVD taking lead in europe have nothing to do with sales bu the small indie studios theyve secured that account for 30% of europe.....BD hasnt even begun to market itself in Europe liek they plan to, again, id hardly say signing 35 indie movie studios that collectively account for 30% of europes market is the rest of the world backing HD DVD.
