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Sony goofs by showing declining Blu-ray sales
Author: Phil CogarPublished: 7th September 2007
Trying to show that Blu-ray sales have been double that of HD DVD, Sony shows that both formats have been on a decline.
Cold, hard sales figures have been relatively hard to come by for both formats so this data comes as a shock. The chart shows that, while there have been sales spikes since last year's holiday season, overall sales of discs have nearly halved during this past year. Of course the data ends around the end of May and doesn't take into account any effects that recent bundling of movies with players has had.
The neck-and-neck race to become the dominant movie format has made it extremely hard to make a good judgment call on which format will win. Right now, many consumers are willing to sit back and wait for someone to be declared a winner before dropping money into a format that may end up being dead in the water. The decision, at least until the holiday rush hits us, is in the hands of large corporations as they pick which format to support.
Even if you're not willing to place your cash in either format right now, which one are you more willing to spend your money on? Discuss it with us in the comment section below or over in the forums.
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the problem is people are most likely scared to dump that much money into the technology and especially with movies being exclusive meaning your pretty much bound to get both or stick with dvd.
there are a bunch of hd-dvd titles that are hd-dvd and dvd complaint... my parents watched smoking aces on their dvd player the day after i watched it in hd... so i would think early adopters would go the hd route for that feature specifically. i own a ps3 and an hd-dvd player so it matters not to me, but atleast give the little credit where it is due to hd. even if they don't buy an hd-player they could get the hd-version then upgrade later since the format might die but the players will drop in price and they will eventually be able to play the high def version anyways...
Awesome-Disc.
Of course if they had tried it would have been off the scale :p
that is what I'm doing
- more dots with more colour - The number of people I've seen at the local tv shop stare in awe ooo-ing and aah-ing at the HD tvs is great except they're playing a regular DVD
- lossless audio - come on most people couldn't care less or wouldn't even notice
- more speakers - like 5.1 wasn't hard enough to arrange in a typical tv room and again a lot of people wouldn't care or notice
So the entire market consists of enthusiasts, the rich, the must have the latest stuff croud, those who buy whatever the adverts tell them to and that rarest of the rare, people who backup! ;)Free (almost) always wins and while not upgrading from DVD is free then I reckon that DVD will be good enough for most people
I blame part of that on the technical aspects of HD. The two competing formats aren't confusing enough, but then you add the LCD/Plasma war and the 720p/1080i/1080p war and pretty soon consumers are left scratching their heads. When they get confused, they just go to Wal-Mart and buy a DVD player.
-monkey
One of these players will not only allow me to watch my current dvd collection in good quality on my hdtv but if a movie i want is blu-ray only (like the pirates of the carribean movies which are disney) then i'll just by the dvd (and the price of standard dvds will continue to fall) and then upconvert. With HD discs being much cheaper to produce I think the chances of HD winning a price war are very good. Maybe one day I wont be able to buy a standard dvd in the shops anymore but by that time I'm sure either one format will have won or most players will be dual-format.
So I'm basically just waiting for the blu-ray lair to do a huge mistake. We all know it will happen, and when it does I'll buy a HD-DVD player.
(Yay for positive thinking...)
oh, and I'll probably wait for someone to make a player that doesn't look like utter crap! At least something that have a standard width, so it will fit into my stereo-"rack".
If my TV died ATM, id probably upgrade to HD (if the price is right) but currently, there is no need to upgrade, we've only got 1 LCD tv in our house, and the others are CRT - why? because there's no need to replace the CRT's
As they announced the HD-DVD gives you nearly the same quality as Blu-DVD while maintaining a relative low price.
Price! You know, price is a sensitive topic to those people reside in developing countries and these countries hold a large market.
These people with a average income may just pay half-day or even one-day work for a blank blu-ray disk.
You can imagine how a blu-dvd containing the latest Hollywood's film being sold there.
I think they would not hesitate to support HD-DVD(if they choose to upgrade).
Just look at a DVD today. 4,7GB isn't much. (which is the only real option, as dual layer disks are overly expensive)
For me it’s not about the capacity, but rather the compatibility.
Can you imagine having different standards on CD music players!
I am very happy with my DVD quality and compatibility. ;)
The price is good, I know that it’s compatible on my PC, my home and/or with friends and family.
Sony always tries to be different, just like they’re Sony Memory sticks, and now this. :(
The player supports both formats
Can play all other codecs (divx/xvid etc)
And has network connection
Case closed.
How exactly would I be getting ripped off if I bought HD-DVD movies and BD-ROM software? Unless you're on about watching HD-DVD titles on a PC...