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Faxanadu on 27 November 2007

Europe does not care. Europe is old tech. Europe is old world. Europe invests in wine and women, not technology. Good lord, anyone listening?



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Biroutman on 27 November 2007
Avinash_Tyagi said:
And the HD market is what, 1% of the full DVD market?

everyone knows that, and what does this has to do with HD-DVD / Blu-Ray anyway??

don't you think that majors are gonna look which of the two is selling best before really investing in either one??



Avinash_Tyagi on 27 November 2007

My point was trumpeting Blu-Ray's sales in this manner, (73% of market) is rather pointless when you realize how small the HD market is, sure its beating HD-DVD, but both are still being trounced by DVD



 

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Biroutman on 27 November 2007

i agree there's no reason for trumpeting yet,
i think most studios are gonna wait another year or so before trying to push either of the formats



ChronotriggerJM on 27 November 2007
Avinash_Tyagi said:
My point was trumpeting Blu-Ray's sales in this manner, (73% of market) is rather pointless when you realize how small the HD market is, sure its beating HD-DVD, but both are still being trounced by DVD

 But this isn't a comparison between DVD and Blu-ray, therefor that less than one percent just so happens to be the target of focus in this thread. If you really don't care about either format then your fine, dvd isn't going anywhere anytime soon :) HOWEVER for the people wanting to speculate on the current rate of succes in the Blu vs. HD-DVD war, then this information is somewhat usefull. 



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ProfDallas on 27 November 2007

Does anybody here honestly think that HD-DVD has a chance to win?



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Yuk04 on 27 November 2007

For the people that is waiting to decide what to purchase (Blu-ray/HD-DVD) I wouldn't go for any.

The high definition formats are something fancy to spend your money in, but please stop making believe to the people that one of those will be a universal format that everyone will have to rush to the shop and buy.

I don't have any of those, and I think that all these 'news' and discussions that are on the internet are just creating a need that the general public doesn't have but people is making an effort convincing the customers that you need HD in your house, and that the only way of getting it is through Blu-ray and/or HD-DVD.

HD formats are entering the homes of the people at the same speed that they realize that formats are ending.

People download music, and now in more and more houses, when signing to digital TV, you get your HD channels with movies on demand.

I'm not talking about downloading an HD movie, TV in demand is what people are investing in.

Sorry if this sounds a bit out of topic but its to try to give a different opinion on all this format wars, giving the third option.

If someone mentions that the market of Blu-ray/HD-DVD is just a 1% of the DVDs is to show to the hesitating customers that there's no rush yet to purchase any.

If you like having the last fancy gadgets, go ahead and spend your money.



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NJ5 on 27 November 2007
ProfDallas said:
Does anybody here honestly think that HD-DVD has a chance to win?

I'm not following this format war very attentively, but I guess if the rumours about much cheaper HD-DVD players for this Christmas are true, it may recover some lost ground.

 



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etuoyo on 27 November 2007
hunter_alien said:
So anyone still not shure who will win the format war ?

I think we all know it's going to be DVD.



TheBigFatJ on 27 November 2007
Yojimbo said:

A few days ago, the BDA also announced that Blu-ray owned 97% of the HD recorder market in Japan. High definition recorders are more popular in Japan where broadcast TV is of a much higher quality. With only 3% of the market, HD DVD recorders have failed to make any penetration into Japanese homes.

Meh

http://www.blu-ray.com/news/?id=701


Broadcast TV quality is better than 1080i in Japan?

Why don't they just record to HD-DVRs.  I imagine they must be free in Japan as well, and they're a lot nicer than swapping discs.