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GranTurismo on 12 October 2007

At the DisplaySearch conference held yesterday, attendees were treated to the latest information regarding the format war. Warner announced that '300' has sold over 250,000 copies on Blu-ray since it was released in July, twice as many as has sold on HD DVD. Sony also announced that the PS3 would soon be receiving a firmware upgrade to boost its Blu-ray interactivity functions.

On the whole, HD players have increased their market share, now at 5%, since August when it was only 1.3% of total DVD player sales. Additionally, HD players accounted for 27% of the revenue in the DVD player market. This trend is expected to continue through the upcoming holiday season.

http://www.blu-ray.com/news/?id=580

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davygee on 12 October 2007
GranTurismo said:

At the DisplaySearch conference held yesterday, attendees were treated to the latest information regarding the format war. Warner announced that '300' has sold over 250,000 copies on Blu-ray since it was released in July, twice as many as has sold on HD DVD. Sony also announced that the PS3 would soon be receiving a firmware upgrade to boost its Blu-ray interactivity functions.

On the whole, HD players have increased their market share, now at 5%, since August when it was only 1.3% of total DVD player sales. Additionally, HD players accounted for 27% of the revenue in the DVD player market. This trend is expected to continue through the upcoming holiday season.

http://www.blu-ray.com/news/?id=580

That is very impressive and shows that people are starting to make the move to HD.  Although I bet hardly anyone buys a DVD player now seeing as most houses have 3 or 4 of them in it.

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ChichiriMuyo on 12 October 2007

Well, it's a fairly good start. Though I have to wonder if that 5% number includes PS3s. If it does, they have a long way to go. I guess the real metric to look at, and the one they didn't list, is what % of discs sold are HD.



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hunter_alien on 12 October 2007

Well I just buyed an old DVD player ... so... :P



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Andir on 12 October 2007
hunter_alien said:
Well I just buyed an old DVD player ... so... :P

 Sorry, I don't usually do this, but the proper word is"bought"...



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Saiyar on 12 October 2007
davygee said:
GranTurismo said:

At the DisplaySearch conference held yesterday, attendees were treated to the latest information regarding the format war. Warner announced that '300' has sold over 250,000 copies on Blu-ray since it was released in July, twice as many as has sold on HD DVD. Sony also announced that the PS3 would soon be receiving a firmware upgrade to boost its Blu-ray interactivity functions.

On the whole, HD players have increased their market share, now at 5%, since August when it was only 1.3% of total DVD player sales. Additionally, HD players accounted for 27% of the revenue in the DVD player market. This trend is expected to continue through the upcoming holiday season.

http://www.blu-ray.com/news/?id=580

That is very impressive and shows that people are starting to make the move to HD. Although I bet hardly anyone buys a DVD player now seeing as most houses have 3 or 4 of them in it.

 I think that close to 80% of all new TV's bought last month were HDTV's. HDM uptake is getting better and will probably hit mass market in 2-3 years.



leo-j on 12 October 2007

Awsome!!!

If blu-ray dominates sony dominates :D



 

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HappySqurriel on 12 October 2007
GranTurismo said:

At the DisplaySearch conference held yesterday, attendees were treated to the latest information regarding the format war. Warner announced that '300' has sold over 250,000 copies on Blu-ray since it was released in July, twice as many as has sold on HD DVD. Sony also announced that the PS3 would soon be receiving a firmware upgrade to boost its Blu-ray interactivity functions.

On the whole, HD players have increased their market share, now at 5%, since August when it was only 1.3% of total DVD player sales. Additionally, HD players accounted for 27% of the revenue in the DVD player market. This trend is expected to continue through the upcoming holiday season.

http://www.blu-ray.com/news/?id=580

So 1 in every 20 Movie players sold in September was a HD-DVD or Blu-Ray player? Also is it surprising that a handful of $500 machines cause a massive spike in revenue when you can (easily) find a DVD player in the $15 range?

When every PS3 is included in these numbers this becomes a fairly sad announcement ...



Desroko on 12 October 2007
HappySqurriel said:
GranTurismo said:

At the DisplaySearch conference held yesterday, attendees were treated to the latest information regarding the format war. Warner announced that '300' has sold over 250,000 copies on Blu-ray since it was released in July, twice as many as has sold on HD DVD. Sony also announced that the PS3 would soon be receiving a firmware upgrade to boost its Blu-ray interactivity functions.

On the whole, HD players have increased their market share, now at 5%, since August when it was only 1.3% of total DVD player sales. Additionally, HD players accounted for 27% of the revenue in the DVD player market. This trend is expected to continue through the upcoming holiday season.

http://www.blu-ray.com/news/?id=580

So 1 in every 20 Movie players sold in September was a HD-DVD or Blu-Ray player? Also is it surprising that a handful of $500 machines cause a massive spike in revenue when you can (easily) find a DVD player in the $15 range?

When every PS3 is included in these numbers this becomes a fairly sad announcement ...


 I'm also trying to figure out how GT managed to read this as gains for Blu-Ray specifically, and not HD players in general. The only Blu-Ray specific information was on a single movie, which is rather meaningless if you're discussing the entire market.



Diomedes1976 on 12 October 2007

Its growing ,next year this time it wont be 5% but 30% .