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LordTheNightKnight on 11 December 2007
Diomedes1976 said:
LordTheNightKnight said:

HD DVD and Blu-ray only have 10%.

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By Henning Molbaek
 FIRST ONLINE Dec 10, 2007
The Black Friday Sale showed a very important fact. Only 10% of the players sold were an HD DVD or Blu-ray machine.

It may be a fact that DVD sales are not at their highest, but the format remains strong and alive.

According to market analyst DisplaySearch, 57,000 HD DVD and Blu-ray stand-alone players were sold during the important "Black Friday" week that ended Nov. 24. Of those, 62% were HD DVD and 37% Blu-ray. In comparison, 600,000 standard DVD players were sold.

DisplaySearch predicted that if sales continue this way, the different formats will stand as follows at the end of 2007:

HD DVD Stand-alone players: 678,000
XBOX 360 HD DVD drive: 270,000
Blu-ray Stand-alone players: 461,000
Playstation 3: 2.5 million

Source: DisplaySearch and VideoBusiness.
This is actually good news for hi-def. Even if movie sales are stuck at 5%, getting more players is a good start. They just need to get movie prices down now.

 


 

In fact the PS3 will have far more than 2.5 million sold end of 2007 .Its already about 2.95 million and still 3 weeks until end of the year .And this war is worlwide ,not just NA-only ,and worlwide the Blu.Ray is crushing the HD-DVD sales-wise .

Clearly you didn't pay attention to the "next wave" part, as you comments are centered on the present.



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LordTheNightKnight on 11 December 2007

http://www.engadgethd.com/2007/12/11/samsungs-bd-p1400-blu-ray-player-dips-to-270/

Blu-ray players dipping ever lower.



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Plus, just for the hell of it: Kelly Brook at the 2008 BAFTAs

jankazimierz on 11 December 2007

Anyone Getting the Simpsons on Blu-Ray next week? Its the first blu ray movie that I will full price for the day it comes out!



ProfDallas on 11 December 2007
LordTheNightKnight said:
http://www.engadgethd.com/2007/12/11/samsungs-bd-p1400-blu-ray-player-dips-to-270/

Blu-ray players dipping ever lower.

You must be a closet Blu-ray fanboy if you are posting about how the HD-DVD side is losing their last advantage in the whole thing

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LordTheNightKnight on 11 December 2007
ProfDallas said:
LordTheNightKnight said:
http://www.engadgethd.com/2007/12/11/samsungs-bd-p1400-blu-ray-player-dips-to-270/

Blu-ray players dipping ever lower.

 

You must be a closet Blu-ray fanboy if you are posting about how the HD-DVD side is losing their last advantage in the whole thing



And you ignoring the advantage I just posted shows how delusional you are.

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LordTheNightKnight on 12 December 2007

Yeah! IT'S ON!

Toshiba planning to undercut Blu-ray, snip MSRP of HD DVD titles

Posted Dec 11th 2007 7:48PM by Darren Murph
Filed under: Industry, Blu-ray, HD DVD, Toshiba

In case you haven't had enough of the coaxing carousel, a recent writeup by David Kaplan lays out Toshiba's plan to hack a few dollars off of the MSRP of HD DVD titles, presumably in an attempt to persuade Warner to not go Blu-ray-only. Reportedly, the outfit is getting set to lower the retail price of each disc to $31.74, which is currently around $2.00 less than Blu-ray's suggested price. 'Course, it remains to be seen what difference such a minor change will actually make -- after all, when is the last time you were forced to pay retail for an HD DVD / Blu-ray disc? That being said, we certainly won't complain if Tosh wants to start up a price war.

Wait a second. ONLY TWO F---ING DOLLARS? This isn't about HD-DVD. It's about growing a pair. This is still higher than a lot of retailers actually sell either format. Drop it down to $25 or less if you want to impress us!

 



A flashy-first game is awesome when it comes out. A great-first game is awesome forever.

Plus, just for the hell of it: Kelly Brook at the 2008 BAFTAs

steverhcp02 on 12 December 2007
LordTheNightKnight said:

Yeah! IT'S ON!

Toshiba planning to undercut Blu-ray, snip MSRP of HD DVD titles

Posted Dec 11th 2007 7:48PM by Darren Murph
Filed under: Industry, Blu-ray, HD DVD, Toshiba

In case you haven't had enough of the coaxing carousel, a recent writeup by David Kaplan lays out Toshiba's plan to hack a few dollars off of the MSRP of HD DVD titles, presumably in an attempt to persuade Warner to not go Blu-ray-only. Reportedly, the outfit is getting set to lower the retail price of each disc to $31.74, which is currently around $2.00 less than Blu-ray's suggested price. 'Course, it remains to be seen what difference such a minor change will actually make -- after all, when is the last time you were forced to pay retail for an HD DVD / Blu-ray disc? That being said, we certainly won't complain if Tosh wants to start up a price war.

Wait a second. ONLY TWO F---ING DOLLARS? This isn't about HD-DVD. It's about growing a pair. This is still higher than a lot of retailers actually sell either format. Drop it down to $25 or less if you want to impress us!

 


 See post #14 http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?t=953936




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Omac on 12 December 2007

I would think 2 dollars would just be a start. After Blu-Ray would make a cut, so would HD-DVD and so on. I don't think HD-DVD would make a $10.00 dollar cut, for it's first cut.



Saiyar on 12 December 2007

State of Blu-ray in the UK

Over 1 million Blu-ray discs sold.

1 million players (PS3 + SAL) expected to be sold by the end of 2007.

4:1 sales ratio in favour of Blu-ray.



steverhcp02 on 12 December 2007
Omac said:
I would think 2 dollars would just be a start. After Blu-Ray would make a cut, so would HD-DVD and so on. I don't think HD-DVD would make a $10.00 dollar cut, for it's first cut.

 see this is how naughty rumors get started.

 

please read my link, engadget misinterperated (surprise surprise...toshiba was reaffirming what the msrp has always been this isnt an announcement of a cut at all.




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