Mirroring their decision to cut prices in the US, Toshiba has announced they will be cutting prices for their HD DVD players in the UK as well. The company also talked about new marketing initiatives it hoped to bring to the UK.
The company, along with other companies in the HD DVD camp, will push their player's DVD upscaling abilites more prominently now.
Additionally, the company ... [ read the full article ]
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HD DVD sales are going very very nicely right now.
The retailers in the USA on avs are talking about substantially reordering stocks - which proves the 'fire sale' tales are pure Blu-ray lies & propaganda.
Blu-ray has only sold 6 million movie discs in almost 2 years and HD DVD has only sold almost 3 million movie discs in the same time-frame - in a total movie disc market that sees sales of 750 million per year.
That means high def sales do not even equate (combined) to 1% of the total movie disc market so far.
It's perfectly clear & very obvious that all those who claim 'it's all over' are just at the usual Blu-ray BS, trying to talk up their preferred format.
Again.
The Blu-ray gang can place all their faith in post-dated promises if they like, I'm far more interested in the real & actual rocketing sales HD DVD hardware is currently enjoying.
Amazon USA proves the point
(only the 2nd largest retailer in the world).
By contrast the best selling Blu-ray player (the Panasonic BMP BD30) is at number 76 in that list - and Blu-ray players very rarely even make it into the top 100 of that list at all.
By contrast the highest placed Blu-ray player (Panasonic DMP-BD30K) is at number 7, the Samsung BDP 1400 is at number 11 and the Sony S300 is at number 20.
It's far too early for anyone to be calling this with any seriousness.
But this is all only to be expected, for as long as it's still open to question the Blu-ray gang will be everywhere they can be slamming HD DVD & pretending it's all over & they already won.
Again.....and again......and again....and again......and again.... etc etc.
Sadly for them if we get to X-mas 2008 and little concrete has changed they are the ones that will be in the big trouble.
They've set themselves up for their bluff to be called.
If Blu-ray fails to get into the a/v mainstream mass-market in 2008 then they are the ones who will have lost the credibility and run out of time, it'll be almost 4 years gone and still not happening = stagnant PS3 game console proprietary format.
(and why should they?
There's no sign of them producing their supposedly full & final spec 'profile 2.0' stand-alones, never-mind a proper range of them this year)
No-one will believe another empty claim of 'we already won' for the 43rd (or more) time if things have not moved much for Blu-ray - and this time there'll be no hiding behind HD DVD's numbers, this time the results will be expected relative to SD DVD.
They haven't even been able to conclusively settle the high def war in their favour; they don't stand a chance.
Strange, I could have sworn this was an article to discuss HD-DVD player sales in the UK, what does the above rant about blu-ray have to do with it ?
- blu-ray lies ?
- blu-ray propoganda ?
- blu-ray BS ?
- blu-ray gang ?
- blu-ray fan boys ?
I don't mean to insult anyone but this constant and endless hijacking of every HD thread with streams of bile and hatred directed against blu-ray or anyone who dares to "like" the media is now bordering on the psychotically obsessive .
If you have such a disparaging opinion of what you call blu-ray and its "fan-boys" then what do you call yourself ? an impartial observer you most certainly are not ! :)
blu ray supporters are always the bad ones huh. their always missinformed and they never know what their talking about. they just want to support sony and everything. they never really knew what they were supporting they just went blindly for it. we might as well say its the same with politics. who would want to vote for bush or gore or clinton/obama or mccain/guliani...
it baffles me why some people question loyalty or affiliation to something. you pick a team, whoever it is and damn right you want them to win. but oh well just stuff that we have to get used to readin on afterdawn. i cant wait till wer half way 2008 and this thing is done with to stop with the nonsence.
