Blue-ray surpasses 1 m sold mark

[shams]

Kwaad said:

shams said:

Kwaad said:

You are still missing the point, aren't you...

The companies that support HD-DVD are doing WELL, and are EXTREMELY happy with its performance. As long as this continues - and they keep bringing in the profit (which is MORE money than they would with BluRay) there is no reason for them to switch over.

Even if BluRay players outnumber HD-DVD players 3:1 - the number of companies/support for BluRay may outnumber it 10:1. So... when someone wants to buy a movie that runs on their BluRay player, these companies have MORE chance of making a sale.

This is not about wanting to watch a specific movie - its about having some media to show off your new-fangled handware/TV. No one with a HD-DVD player is going to say "Ohh - this movie only comes on on BluRay - I better buy a player" - they will just buy the DVD instead, and complain to their retailer.

 

So what your saying is. No matter who wins, the customer looses. Kinda like, in HD the customer always looses too right? Kidna like buying a 500$ sound system... everyone looses. Or buying a computer... everyone looses... Hell, buying food. Everyone looses.

Dude. You should explain yourself, and make some sense, becuase it would be hard to make less sense than you just did. Oh, yeah, BTW, the companies that support both, are happier with their BluRay performance than HD-DVD. The HD-DVD exclusive companies are MUCH happier with their HD-DVD sales than their BluRay sales. Mainly because it is ∞:0.

Ummm... Im not exactly sure how you got to the "every customer looses" conclusion, but I'll let that go and try and explain myself better.

- Assume people go and buy either a HD-DVD player, BluRay player - or both. Some people bought it on purpose (because they have "too much money"), or part of a package deal (i.e. "PS3").

- Once you have this EXPENSIVE piece of equipment, you want to do something on it... right? It might have cost you $200US - or as much as $1000US. Either way, without a movie its worthless.

- You head out and buy a movie (or three). Your local store has 30 BluRay movies- and 15 HD-DVD movies. Assume they are the same price (sort of irrelevant - you just blew hundreds on a player, what an extra $100 for a few movies... right?)

- In this situation you don't really care that much what movies you get. You'll avoid anything that completely sucks, and prefer anything you really dig - or looks cool in HiDef (sfx, etc). The result is, that maybe 75% of the movies available - for either format - will do you for a purchase.

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How many movie studios support HD-DVD? 3(?) How many support BluRay? 10?

Say BluRay (player) sales are double HD-DVD sales - 500k vrs 250k.

Now on average - each studio sells about 85k units for HD-DVD... and 50k for BluRay.

Now you tell me - which set of studios is better off?

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Its not that different from how console + game sales work - and its all about the install base. Except that content is much more irrelevant for movies than games. There are so many movies available, and in the end - everything is also available on DVD. Until that stops, or BluRay players establish a massive install base lead (say 10x) - this is like squabbling over pennies dropped from a cash sale. Its pretty much pointless.