Sony’s domination = How much profit?

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Hus said:

sharky said:

 

BTW, it's really looking like Blu-Ray is not going to win the format wars anyway...HDDVD has been coming on really strong lately. Today there was news that Wal Mart has ordered 2 million $299 HDDVD players for this fall. That's just another blow to Blu-Ray.

 

 

actually they have been losing real badly lately, they had one good week when hddvd owners organized a buy a thon.

The 2 mill order will be completed in 2008, Sony have said Br players at $300 by the end of 07. Aloso there are already 1.4 million PS3s in USA. Hddvd has been out for a year already and only sold 100k players.

Also, you know how those online news rumor sites can be:  they don't check their sources before they straight-out copy each other.  Apparently, since I just googled it, there is some confusion since the original report says blu-ray hd-dvd, not just hd-dvd, and some say blue laser hd-dvd.  Walmart has yet to confirm which format they are supporting in this report.  Apparently people didn't translate the Chinese correctly.  Considering Walmart has been putting more blu-ray than hd-dvd on the shelves lately, it would be odd for them to suddenly support hd-dvd players over blu-ray.  But, I guess we'll find out soon enough.