blu ray will win folks...

 Well, I guess it's official.  Blu-Ray will win.  As Justincool says so shall be done.

This weeks numbers (can the thread title be changed to the HDM thread or something like that?)

week 65:35

year 65:35

SI  61:39

Ratatouille Blu 100.00
Spider Man 3 Blu 34.98
Cars Blu 30.95
Transformers Hd 26.04
Chuck and Larry Hd 19.52
Spider Man Trilogy Blu 15.38
Pixar Shorts Blu 11.56
Knocked up HD 8.53
300 Blu 7.70
Meet the Robinsons Blu 7.60

From Home Media Magazine:

(Note: These numbers apply strictly to North America)

Week 11/11 BD 65, HD 35 YTD: BD 65, HD 35 SI: BD 61, HD 39
Week 11/04 BD 71, HD 29 YTD: BD 64, HD 36 SI: BD 61, HD 39
Week 10/28: BD 55, HD 45 YTD: BD 64, HD 36 SI: BD 60, HD 40
Week 10/21: BD 51, HD 49 YTD: BD 65, HD 34 SI: BD 61, HD 39
Week 10/14: BD 71, HD 29 YTD: BD 66, HD 34 SI: BD 61, HD 39

The NA Year-to-Date numbers have gone up in favor of Blu-Ray last week.

Top titles for the week:

1. Ratatouille 100.00
2. Spider-man 3 34.98
3. Cars 30.98
4. Transformers 26.04
5. I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry 19.52
6. Spider-man Trilogy 15.38
7. Pixar Short Films 11.56
8. Knocked Up 8.53
9. 300 7.70
10. Meet The Robinsons 7.60
11. Evan Almighty 5.52
12. Planet Earth 4.74
13. Planet Earth 4.43
14. 300 3.62

The new Blu-Ray releases of Ratatouille and Cars didn't sell as well as expected, with Ratatouille having only sold an estimate of 65,000 copies, compared to the standalone version of Spiderman 3 selling around 90k last week and the trilogy box set selling another 40k.

European Year-to-Date numbers:

77:23

...according to Pocket-lint.Co.Uk.

 Bah, you beat me to it. :P

3:1 sales in Europe? That's pretty good. It looks like the format war is only really going on in NA, everywhere else blu is dominating

Haha, you know how HD DVD fanboys can only brag about price? Well, it looks like that bragging point will soon disappear.

Check out the cheapest standalone players for each format as of right now:

Toshiba HD-A2 - $229.28 at Wal-mart.com

Samsung BD-P1400 Blu-Ray disc player - $339.99 at Amazon.com

That's only a $110 difference. By holiday '08 price will be equal, but Blu-Ray will still have the content advantage. Even if HD DVD can come back a bit over this holiday, next holiday they're screwed, and it won't be until next holiday or later when people actually starting buying HDM en masse, as only 33% of NA homes currently have HDTVs.

Yeah the price difference is getting smaller, that's what I've been trying to say, but the HD-Dud crowd doesn't listen even as they get hammered with respect to sales.

It's what I've been syaing for a while too. I just didn't realize how cheap the Samsung had become. It was still $400 a week ago, and at the time the A2 was $199 at Best Buy.

Prices weill be equal within a year. The ps3 is simply supporting Blu-Ray until the CEs can get standalones down to the prices of HD DVD players.

How do you know HD-DVD player priced won't go down further? They might not, but assuming they won't go down is not good proof they won't.

I mean, considering you insist Microsoft and Toshiba are so cutthroat about this format war, but when it comes to prices, you seem to "forget" how cutthroat you claim they are, just to pretend the HD-DVD players can't compete in price.

This is NOT ABOUT what format will win. It's about you all being inconsistent with your arguments. Either the HD-DVD companies are cutthroat, or they aren't. If they are cutthroat enough to buy studio support*, they sure as hell will subsidize lower player prices to compete.

It may not work, but if you think they won't try, then your claims about how desperate they are to continue this format war are a lie.

*BTW, what evidence there is for the Paramount deal is that Toshiba paid them, not Microsoft, so dallas couldn't even get that accusation right.