Ever since movie giant Warner Brothers defected and sided with the Blu-ray camp, its been an uphill battle for those involved with rival HD-DVD. Just weeks after the announcement of WB switching sides, NPD data shows that hardware sales for HD-DVD came to a virtual halt. The NPD Group recorded Blu-ray as having an astounding 93% sales advantage.
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It's sad to see Hughjars go from a blatant HD-DVD fanboy to a troll in such a short time. It's like watching a snowman melt under the warm Blu rays of spring.
Sony is giving away free movies. not just one but like 3 or 5 depending on what you buy. I think that was very smart on their part. Toshiba has to set up a similar program, even if they loose money until they get a head start. Dropping the price on the players has shown not to be enough.
They also should have come with a catchier name like sony did. Blu-ray, its just two sylabels, so much simpler to pronounce, memorize and it even has a rign to it. I've met people that have no idea what blu-ray is yet they talk about it like its the most awesomest thing. Its called name recognition.
My killer sig came courtesy of bb "El Jefe" mayo.
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Here are the new hardware numbers from NPD for the week ending January 19, 2008. Remember Toshiba slashed prices on all its players on January 13 so the numbers reflect one week of the sale. Remember also that the PS3 and 360 addon are not included in these numbers. These numbers include online retailers like amazon.
HD DVD - 8,639 units - 34.37%
BluRay - 16,496 units - 65.63%
Quote:So it would certainly appear that Toshiba's price cutting has at least contributed to a modest rebound in the number of HD-DVD units moved, though sources are telling us that Blu-ray earned approximately 83% of all the actual dollars spent on high-def players for the week. Here are those totals...
Blu-ray Disc - $6,033,540
HD-DVD - $1,182,248
Again, that would seem to reflect the fact that Toshiba's prices had been heavily discounted. The dollar volume percentage is key, because that's where retailers are going to see profits. As such, they're obviously making more money on each Blu-ray player sold than each HD-DVD player sold right now.
FYI, we'd like to take this opportunity to remind everyone that two weeks of data points does not equal a trend, just a very small line. We're sure that all parties involved (including the NPD Group) will make their own comments shortly.
In these articles we are saeeing the demize of a good format that put up a great figt but i have to say the killer blow was when Warner chose sides and well the demise and end of HD DVD is for told here and in this month we has said R.I.P HDVD and congrats to blu-ray.
