Breaking news about Blu-ray Disc market share from CES 2007.

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http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/08/live-coverage-from-bda-press-conference/



Never mind that this info is from the BRD association.
 
Actually, the trend everywhere is showing Blu-ray sales closing the gap on HD DVD and has for the first time in some instances, come out the leader in software sales.

CES is here, and no studios that were exclusive to Blu-ray have jumped ship. I think the tides will turn.
 
So, since there are some ~3 million XB360 owners, if they all decided to drop another $200 on it in the form of a HD-DVD player, that would basically overide the 800,000 PS3 owners who plan to watch movies on their PS3s.

Realisticly, logically, ideally, how can anyone say that people would rather spend $650 on a PS3 versus another $200 on an HD-DVD player? It does not compute.


At the present time (last time I looked) HD-DVD has ~30 more titles than BR; HD plans to roll out another 250, whiel HD plans to roll out 200 (100 from Sony, alone.)

Largest variety of hardware? 3 to 2 is a 'largest' variety? Oh, they must mean the players that people will come out with, for example, the Pioneer Elites that haven't hit the shelfs, the pre-production manufacturer numbers (~5 more manufacturers to start selling BR versus the ~3 more that will sell HD.)

HD's biggest hurdle, in my opinion, is price: it costs twice as much as HD. The people will always choose the lower price spread if it does the same exact thing. Think for a moment what Sony is doing: if you want the latest Sony movie you will have to buy BR. Movie studios are already talking of making a dual, combo, disc, one that has both BR and HD on it. As far as Disney goes, the same asinine comments can be applied to them as has been said of Nintendo: they make movies for kids. Now, you know the kiddies tend to destroy their little toys, they throw around their DVD disks. Would you be willing to buy them a movie that costs twice as much as a regular DVD movie? Nah, you're gonna buy them the cheaper spread and tell them not to play them on your $1000 player. Face it, you're not about to buy your 10 year old a $650 PS3, you'll give him a $100 GC, instead. Disney is therefore marginalised. Yeah, the movie "Cars" looks great on all those WalMart LCD TVs. But are you going to spend $30 on it when it can be bought for $15 for little Johnny or little Suzie? $10 for the blue light special.
 
The HD-DVD vs Blu-Ray war is absolutely dumb. How Sony thinks it can adopt yet another failed standard (mini-disk, umd anyone?) to press their ever stalin-like business strategy on consumers is just lame. Ad DVDs will tell you, we don't need a million different standards. Just one that does it right.
 
You make it seem like microsoft hasn't tried to monopolize every industry they have gotten their hands into. Sony is simply just trying to push a product they created with the help of others ( keep in mind sony did not make the blu ray single handedly despite what all you fucking idiot fanboys want to believe )
 
UMD is still used for PSP games though. Of course the movies failed on UMD because who wants to play movies only on a PSP and have it cost more than a DVD.
 
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