Home Media Research, a division of Home Media Magazine, has found that from January 1 through September 30, total U.S. sales of Sony’s Blu-ray discs amounted to 2.6 million units compared with Toshiba’s 1.4 million HD-DVD discs. Since both formats launched in the spring of 2006, an estimated 4.98 million high-definition discs have been sold, including 3.01 million in Blu-ray and 1.97 million in HD-DVD through the end of September, according to Home Media. Nevertheless, Paramount Home Video said that "Transformers" had the biggest debut of any high-definition titles, selling over 100,000 HD-DVDs on Oct 16, its first day of release.
Tom Adams, president of Adams Media Research, expects for Blu-ray to lead the year overall but noted that the 18-month period of exclusivity for HD-DVDs by Paramount and DreamWorks should strengthen HD-DVD's hand this quarter: "This definitely smooths out the edge that Blu-ray had in exclusive titles and it very much strengthens HD-DVD's hand in the fourth quarter.”
News source: Yahoo! News
Tom Adams, president of Adams Media Research, expects for Blu-ray to lead the year overall but noted that the 18-month period of exclusivity for HD-DVDs by Paramount and DreamWorks should strengthen HD-DVD's hand this quarter: "This definitely smooths out the edge that Blu-ray had in exclusive titles and it very much strengthens HD-DVD's hand in the fourth quarter.”
News source: Yahoo! News
I bought a PS2 as I needed a DVD player. The bonus was it played PS2 games. I was happy with my decision.
I bought a PS3 as I needed a HD media player. The bonus is it plays PS3 games. I am happy with my decision.
I just hope Blu-Ray continues to be the HD media of choice. No doubt the PS3 is what's pushing this. Like myself the huge price drop of recent PS3 will hopefully make Blu-Ray even more popular.
So, Sony will only produce Blu-ray disks, and they have a huge catalogue of movies already (http://www.imdb.com/company/co0026545/) meanwhile Paramount HV: http://www.imdb.com/company/co0051891/
Either way, what I'd like to know, is how much of each title sold BR/HDDVD, and how many of those films were 'hits' vs the others.
(Example, if Blu-Ray got mainly Spiderman 3, and other high-numbers films, while HDDVD got films like An Inconvenient Truth)
And I believe the sony/columbia/tristar catalogue is not big enough to guarantee a victory over ALL the other studios. If I'm not mistaken, Warner is the one that has more market share in the home video business.
Anyway, basically all main studios have patents on both formats (except for columbia, I suppose).
The reason BD is winning is because the PS3 will obviously sell more than than any next-gen standalone player
Where are you getting 200 GB? I've never read it holds that much, yet.
i agree, screw sony they dont deserve more power as they shafted people over with rootkits etc.
me personally if i had a choice only reason i would want blu-ray is for it's STORAGE... for movies i would prefer HDDVD.
but one thing im sure most people will agree with me on is.... it sucks having these exclusive titles for either hddvd or blu-ray ... they need a standard for which ALL movies come to like the standard DVD has now.
Theoretically, Blu-ray Discs can support 8 layers of 25GB each, for a total of 200GB.
Theoretically, Blu-ray Discs can support 8 layers of 25GB each, for a total of 200GB.
Theoretically, people can travel to the edge of the universe.
Theoretically I could whup chuck norris's butt......get the point?
Theoretically, Blu-ray Discs can support 8 layers of 25GB each, for a total of 200GB.
Yeah, but they only come in single and dual layer. I'm not trying to be a jerk, I'm just saying they're no where NEAR the 200 GB mark, *YET*.
if you want to experience movies in HD, you'll need BD and HDdvd players. i guess that with time over the next couple years dual format players will get popular and drop in price. at the end of the day, i dont think even a combination of these 2 formats will penetrate the market the way DVD did
agree, i wont get any of those HD formats until they settle it, anyways a ps3 helped a lot in a blu ray camp, no if HD-DVD its integrated inside the xbox360 things will change
Sure. Same way it counts for the movies given away with HD-DVD players.
The porn industry is going with HD-DVD so blueray will loose!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Simple as that!!!! And I love how the article does not even mention the hd-dvd drive for xbox 360.
This was early misinformation and simply not true...
Here are at least three studios:
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/7236.cfm
http://www.fz.se/bloggar/theade/p=1816
http://www.blu-ray.com/news/?id=178
The only reason why it's outselling is because people know it's on PS3 so they relate to the product more.
IMO Sony rock and i and most ppl i know are getting blu ray either via a player or a PS3 :p
Blu Ray sales are also winning in australia, and europe from what i've read......it's only a matter of time.
What has Sony BMG got to do with Sony Pictures? Do you even know how many thousands of people are working under the Sony brand?
And in any case, XCP wasn't even developed by Sony BMG, it was developed by First 4 Internet, so for Sony Pictures to use this rootkit technology in Blu-Ray (which Sony do not even own), it would be gross infringement of both Sony BMG's and First 4 Internet's copyrights.
Sigh.. you can only lead fanboys to water...
Blu-ray is losing terrible in Europe, only a few weeks ago is was reported that HD DVD outsells Blu-ray in Europe at a factor of 3:1!
And with sub 200$ HDDVD Player in the US and the record breaking Transformer release, big changes are bound to happen.
Blu-ray is selling well cuz there is only bluray available...
HDDVD is starting to push its face thro the door in AUS then we will see who wins... the end of next year will give the real image of whos foots in the door...
http://www.highdefdigest.com/news/show/Wal...DVD_Player/1110
It's official. After weeks of rumors, Wal-Mart has begun selling Toshiba's second-gen HD-A2 HD DVD player for $198, setting a new low-price record for a stand-alone next-gen player.
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