Soon more and more shops will drop HD-DVD , and IMO the war can end in less than 3 months ...
Vote the Mayor for Mayor!
It might be even worse this week. Amazon has a big sale on Blu-Rays (I know I bought two, Halloween and Close Encounters) and here are the new releases.
Blu-Ray:
January 15, 2008
* Girls Gone Wild: Baby Bash - Live And Uncensored (Mantra)
* Good Luck Chuck (Lionsgate)
* Mr. Woodcock (New Line)
* Suburban Girl (Image)
HD-DVD:
January 15, 2008
* The Ten (City Lights)
It is hard to beat a 5.67 ratio though. If the ratio is only 5 points higher, 90:10 to 85:15, that means Blu-Ray outsold HD-DVD 9:1 rather than 5.67 to 1.
We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half full of cocaine, a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers…Also a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of beer, a pint of raw ether and two dozen amyls. The only thing that really worried me was the ether. There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge. –Raoul Duke
It is hard to shed anything but crocodile tears over White House speechwriter Patrick Buchanan's tragic analysis of the Nixon debacle. "It's like Sisyphus," he said. "We rolled the rock all the way up the mountain...and it rolled right back down on us...." Neither Sisyphus nor the commander of the Light Brigade nor Pat Buchanan had the time or any real inclination to question what they were doing...a martyr, to the bitter end, to a "flawed" cause and a narrow, atavistic concept of conservative politics that has done more damage to itself and the country in less than six years than its liberal enemies could have done in two or three decades. -Hunter S. Thompson
| godf said: I'm surprised HD-DVD are so commited to fighting on. If they'd been more aggressive on price a year ago, it could have made a real difference, now, the tide has really turned against them. They still might keep going as a secondary format though. If HD-DVD players keep selling for the next couple of years, I'd have thought studios might move from blu-ray to releasing on both. |
They've always been competitive on price. That's the main advantage that HD DVD had. However, content > price.
"If they'd been more aggressive on price a year ago, it could have made a real difference, "
A year ago a blue laser alone cost a hundred bucks. You can only be so aggressive with pricing before going bankrupt. Let's finish this up.
Yeah hd-dvd is dead, ms wasted millions on producing hd-dvd addons...and toshiba is fucked financially...WHATS NEW!? Lol.
3:10 to Yuma was good.
I guess the HD-DVD group thought if they chanted the "low price" mantra enough times that it would win them the war. Unfortunately they forgot when they sold all those low price $99 players that bargain hunters aren't willing to pay an average of $25 per disc. They will just buy the $9.99 DVD and upscale it.
High-def is still a premium market, just as DVD was during this timeframe, but now the costs are much more reasonable than they would have been. HD-DVD did do some good in dropping Blu-Ray player prices and giving me and others cheap Blu-Rays because of all the promotions trying to boost sales.
We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half full of cocaine, a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers…Also a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of beer, a pint of raw ether and two dozen amyls. The only thing that really worried me was the ether. There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge. –Raoul Duke
It is hard to shed anything but crocodile tears over White House speechwriter Patrick Buchanan's tragic analysis of the Nixon debacle. "It's like Sisyphus," he said. "We rolled the rock all the way up the mountain...and it rolled right back down on us...." Neither Sisyphus nor the commander of the Light Brigade nor Pat Buchanan had the time or any real inclination to question what they were doing...a martyr, to the bitter end, to a "flawed" cause and a narrow, atavistic concept of conservative politics that has done more damage to itself and the country in less than six years than its liberal enemies could have done in two or three decades. -Hunter S. Thompson
| misteromar mk4 said: I guess its all the people waiting to see which format was going to win. I never understood why all the studios, just did not release movies on both and let the consumer choose which format they wanted. |
because that would confuse people. it's easier when people see a clearcut winner, not if 2 formats are 50/50 in sales
The only way HD DVD really could have won this is if the XBox 360 came with a built in HD DVD player or if the add on was bundled with it or if they lowered the price of the discs so HD DVD movies cost say $20 instead of $30 or whatever they are. They were still doing good prior to the Warner announcement though considering there were 10 times as many Blu-Ray players as HD DVD players because of the PS3.
whoa! just think. warner still has hd dvd movies on store shelves and will still release them until may... imagine the bd-hddvd ratio in sales afer that :-o
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