Cryoakira on 21 April 2007
| reverie said: This is big news for HDDVD, though I have some qualifications to make. - If the deal has a $100 volume for 2 million units, would that be $50 factory price for one player? Quite hard to believe. Either the deal is bigger or the units are smaller. - Walmart has mostly failed on international markets. They can't set the agenda in Europe or Asia. |
Well, it's true but as someone said before, it's a matter of repercution. If the HD-DVD become the norm in the US (because of Wallmart), then most of US movies will have HD-DVD release which will of course have a huge impact on the rest of the world, including europe. Furthermore, several european studios have already choose to support HD-DVD format because it's cheaper to produce (I mean to produce the HD-DVD version).
The strengh of the BR right now is the installed base of PS3, which "appeared" massively, but isen't expending that much fast...
