This weeks numbers are in. The full breakdown will be late though due to Thanksgiving. Probaly out on Monday.

Week 66:34 (Blu:HD)

Shrek 3 was number 1 with around 40k units.

 Since in NA there are about 3 million Blu players (including the PS3's) vs about 300K(?) set top Hddvd players you would think that the ratio would be way different than this. Like 10:1.  

 try over 500k HD DVD players....and what, the study showed 20% PS3 users potentially use the system for playback?.........

Ugh, why do i even bother, yes BD is failing, everyone here is right, long live Wii60 down with Sony. 

After all the deals this weekend, next weeks numbers will be ALOT closer.

 3 free movies given and counted toards sales with th epurchase of an HD DVD player......$15 on a bunch of HD DVD titles and buy 2 get one free on certin HD DVD's.......its not the masses going out an dbuying HD DVD, its a sale.

Anyone (and thats not many people here btw, from the misinformation and crap ive read on this forum) follwing this thing knows what it comes down to. Both sides have their talking points but its going to come down to:

CE support, Studio Support and retail support. Warner is the last one left, CE support wont support HD DVD probably for another 2 years base don Toshiba just eating away competition to try to propel HD DVD into victory. Retail already shows more space for BD. the wildcard is worldwide trends, Japan is spoken for...Europe as a whole is heading toward sBD..early reports out of Europe are that the GFK numbers will show a 7:1 BD advantage across ALL of Europe. If companies (see warner) view a global market and Eruope and Japan have chosen a side.....HD DVD only having 39% in th estates is a lot easier to part with. Granted its all imo.

But my goodness...never have i heard or read so much doom and gloom about a format with overwhelming CE support, more studio support, a trojan horse in the PS3 and more retail space not to mention a since inception advantage of 61:40 and a YTD advantage of 65:35 in sales be spoken of as if its going extinct. wtf are you people smoking?

Some people need to put down the Sony hate and realize that Blu-ray is NOT a Sony product. Sony is a part of a whole. I mean for gods sake, CE support, sales ratio, retail support, studio support....enough of the F****** attach rate nonsense to make it seem liek HD DVD is "staying alive" Its all about bottom line....how bad will it lok when HD DVD has players at the sweet spot (sub $199) AND giving free movies in box and at check out and STILL cant overtake BD......please.

 just like after wal mart sold 90k players a couple weeks ago? Yeah, just like that, haha.

 The sooner people stop despising BD because they attach it to Sony the better. BD is a better product an dhas more of a chance to survive than HD DVD. End of story. CE's retail, studios....all that matters all favor BD.

Perhaps, but Sony has done a lot of things to a lot of people to piss them off.

DRM anyone? And Sony saying that when you buy one of their CD's, you're not buying the music, but simply "leasing the rights to play the music from Sony".

They're a business, I'll give them that, and they know how to make money, but in the PR department, as well as customer satisfaction, they need some work.

Asian distributor snubs HD-DVD while giving support for Blu-ray as next-gen format of choice.
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Asian cinema powerhouse Tai Seng is shifting its next-gen support into high-gear this January, with the Blu-ray-exclusive bow of the Hong Kong blockbuster 'Initial D.'

From the acclaimed director Andrew Lau and based on the popular manga of the same name, 'Initial D' is a 2005 live-action spectacular about the dangerous streetcar sport of "drifting." A box office phenomenon in its native Hong Kong, the success of 'Initial D' proved so great it even achieved crossover status on these shores, helping to inspire Universal's hit sequel 'Fast and the Furious: Toyko Drift.'



Long one of the biggest domestic distributors of Asian cinema on DVD, Tai Seng has chosen Blu-ray as its next-gen format of choice, and will launch 'Initial D' on January 22, 2008.

http://www.highdefdigest.com/news/show/Tai_Seng/Disc_Announcements/Tai_Seng_Jumps_Into_Blu-ray_with_Initial_D/1197

I consider HD DVD the better product.  Mainly because it doesn't have region coding and BD+ DRM.  Also, it is a finished spec, unlike blu-ray.  But go ahead and support blu-ray with its draconian protection schemes.  I'll support who I think deserves it.