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Forums - General - Blu-Ray takes Black Friday week, BD:HD = 73:27

kirby007 on 30 November 2007
makingmusic476 said:
kirby007 said:
well this is only good news for HD-DVD

No it's not. Dropping player prices down to 1-200 dollars, and they still can't make a dent in Blu-Ray's lead? What happens in 6-12 months when Blu-Ray standalone players finally get below $200?

HD DVD has no hope of catching up, aside from Warner suddenly going HD exclusive like Paramount. Even then, the war would probably end in a stalemate between the two formats.

Two weeks ago the HD DVD camp sold 90,000 players in ONE day, increasing their total number of players by almost 30% (330,000 to 420,000), and they still can't catch up. 


do you know what the ps3 sold untill now? so that is an invalid argument. + lots of free BR movies



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makingmusic476 on 30 November 2007
kirby007 said:
makingmusic476 said:
kirby007 said:
well this is only good news for HD-DVD

No it's not. Dropping player prices down to 1-200 dollars, and they still can't make a dent in Blu-Ray's lead? What happens in 6-12 months when Blu-Ray standalone players finally get below $200?

HD DVD has no hope of catching up, aside from Warner suddenly going HD exclusive like Paramount. Even then, the war would probably end in a stalemate between the two formats.

Two weeks ago the HD DVD camp sold 90,000 players in ONE day, increasing their total number of players by almost 30% (330,000 to 420,000), and they still can't catch up.


do you know what the ps3 sold untill now? so that is an invalid argument. + lots of free BR movies


Exactly.

HD DVD's last hope was bottom of the barrel pricing.  It's not working.  What do they have left? 



kirby007 on 30 November 2007

NOTHING :S DOOM




but they still have 23% marketshare wtf crazy world



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darthdevidem on 30 November 2007

HD-DVD camp is just being NAIVE!

they should just give up now....



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kirby007 on 30 November 2007

jep so true 23% marketshare is nothing



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ProfDallas on 30 November 2007

but the market share is getting lower outside of the US.....why would the US not follow this trend?



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leo-j on 30 November 2007

If you count the PS3's games, its actually 100: 1



 

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kirby007 on 30 November 2007

???



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kirby007 on 30 November 2007

ooow if you ""count"" well => IF



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friedtofu on 30 November 2007
makingmusic476 said:

Exactly.

HD DVD's last hope was bottom of the barrel pricing. It's not working. What do they have left?


 Well, you make it sound as if though that 99$ sale was the last of the cheap players. For a one day sale it did very damn good.

 With the current pricing, hddvd will likely hit that magic non-sale 99$ pricepoint *first*. So I guess we will have to see what happens then. Even at a buck fifty it might make quite an impact, but sub $100 seems like the sweet spot since its not that much higher than a good upscaling s-dvd player.

  To throw a one day 99$ sale and say they played their price card already is a bit premature. 

  It will be interesting to see what happens when a highly available player drops to a permananet $99 price.



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