Comments on: HD DVD v Blu-ray — someone is winning. Nobody has the faintest idea who

By: Jay-G

Jay-G — Wed, 07 Feb 2007 20:20:13 +0000

It’s officially official. Blu-Ray has passed HD-DVD is not looking back.

“In response to an inquiry from Next-Gen, SCEA states that cumulative Blu-ray movie unit sales stand at just over 439,000 units in the US, while total HD-DVD sales are just under 438,000 units. Blu-ray currently stands as the number one new DVD format in unit and dollar sales in the US, according to research firm NPD Group.”

Furthermore, not only is Blu-Ray #1 in unit and dollar value, but it is currently outselling HD-DVD nearly 3:1. Looks like that meager 1000 unit lead will continue to grow quite quickly. One more little bit of info, from what I can gather, PS3 alone has already sold right around 2 million units compared to total HD-DVD players in the market (XBOX360 Add-on’s included) of around 175,000.

By: hotustotus

hotustotus — Wed, 07 Feb 2007 12:21:27 +0000

Even PSP’s UMD video outsell both high def formats.
None of the numbers are big enough to mean anything, not even close.
Until the Chinese bring their cheap HD-DVD players to market nobody is going anywhere.
Once they do Blu-ray becomes yet another very dead end (and very expensive) Sony proprietary format on the (stalled) PS3.

By: John P

John P — Wed, 07 Feb 2007 11:05:07 +0000

Over devoted fanboys are a pain in the backside. Logic dictates that the PS3 will have established Blu-Ray in a very short space of time. Even the disk sales for January alone will be giving the backers of HD DVD a lot of worries. Sony says they will sell 6 million PS3s by end of 2007. Even if they fall well short (say 4 million) it will be all over for HD DVD shortly as the studios will increasingly back the source of greater sales/rentals.

By: janus

janus — Wed, 07 Feb 2007 03:59:56 +0000

Where did you learn to read my good fellow? Did you see the comma? Read the first response and you’ll see its not some iambic nonsense. Nice use of large words but that doesn’t prove wit my friend. BD surpassed sales of HDDVD whether or not you like it. Maybe you should consider selling your HDDVD player.

By: Mike Carton

Mike Carton — Wed, 07 Feb 2007 03:12:12 +0000

You need to slow down, read carefully and think before posting. Here’s the quote:

During the first week of 2007, sales of Blu-ray more than doubled that of HD DVDs, with the latter making up only 46.14 percent of sales compared to the former.

Here’s the meaning:

HD-DVD had 46.14 percent of the sales of Blu-Ray.

Here’s what you assumed:

HD-DVD had 46.14 percent of the total high definition sales.