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 Note: Blu-ray stand alone players outsell HD DVD stand alone players(ps3 not included)

Sony Corp. chief Howard Stringer reversed his previous description of the high-def format war as "at a stalemate" in light of Warner Bros.' abandonment of the HD DVD format, and cheered what he now sees as a Blu-ray victory.

Stringer closed Sony's Sunday press conference on the eve of the Consumer Electronics Show here by saying "All of us at Sony are feeling Blu. But that is a good feeling. We thank Warner to release only in Blu-ray."

The HD DVD format has shown pluck, with sales of its set-tops—particularly Toshiba players—topping sales during the holiday season's Black Friday week. But BD set-tops surged during December, overtaking HD DVD players, Sony VP Chris Fawcett told VB after the press conference.

"Every week after Black Friday, BD set-tops collectively beat Toshiba players," he said. "During the week leading up to Christmas, BD set-tops were 67% of market share unit sales and Sony was 50% of that."

Sony will continue to advance the format with the planned 2008 rollout of two BD-Live/picture-in-picture players, the company's first with these enhanced capabilities.

Pricing and street dates haven't been determined but Fawcett believes they could come as early as summer. The models are dubbed Sapphire 3 and Sapphire 4. Both are similar, but the latter will have more elite audio abilities.

To date, more than 4 million BD devices have sold, including Playstation 3 and set-tops, according to Sony. Toshiba has counted 1 million HD DVD settops and Xbox 360 drives in homes to date.

- Well I guess we can rest the rumer going on that hd dvd stand alone players are outselling blu-ray stand alone players.

This is very interesting

I really don't see any way Blu Ray can lose as long as they don't do something really stupid.

I always like Blu-ray better simply because of the name. Blu-ray FTW!!!

Is Paramount and Universal the only 2 major studios left thats on HDDVD's side

*sigh*
leo, its "rumour" not roumer.

Sounds good for Blu-ray anyway :D

Wonder how long it will be till Unversal and Paramount decide to come over to the Blu side!

This doesn't make a whole lot of sense. I know they say more than 4 million, but it should be at least double that if you include the PS3.

well they said they sold 1.3 ps3's didn't they? i'd assume the ps3 makes up the majority of blu ray player sales.

@ leo-j

try again, its spelled rumour. theres no "e" in it.

@fishy joe

They sold about 2.8 million stand alone blu-ray players, and 1.2 ps3's.