makingmusic476 said:
Here's the best I can do:
Blu-Ray has 17% marketshare of recordable media in Japan, with DVD at 80%, and HD DVD trailing at 3%.
Source:
http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2007/11/23/bd_dominates_japan_hd_r_sales/
Blu-Ray has 96% of the overall high def media market in Japan.
Source:
http://wesleytech.com/blu-ray-takes-96-of-the-japanese-market/40/ The above link is legit, but this link is nearly a year old, so not really reliable, especially since italso doesn't say if it's software or hardware that blu-ray is leading in. We'd need more current figures to know.
Blu-Ray has 73% marketshare in Europe (in terms of movies sold).
Source:
http://www.pocket-lint.co.uk/news/news.phtml/11324/12348/Blu-ray-battles-HDDVD-attachment-statement.phtml Also legit in figures, but the main thrust of the article makes this guy look like a jackass, especially the whole comment, which is not given in this specific story, but on other sites. And it's that trash talking that turns me off this format war far more than the figures.
Blu-Ray software (movies, not ps3 games) has been consistently outselling HD DVD in the US the entire year, at an average of 1.86:1.
Source:
http://forums.highdefdigest.com/showthread.php?t=10996
Also, if I recall correctly, Blu-Ray discs outsell HD DVDs 7:1 in Australia, however, this means little as only 8,000 discs have been sold total, 7,000 Blu-Ray and 1,000 HD DVD. I can't seem to find a link for this information, but it popped up within the past few weeks. |
