HD DVD Promotional Group releases statement on Warner Brothers move to Blu-ray
By Sean P. Aune
Yesterday’s announcement that Warner Brothers has gone to Blu-ray exclusively, has, of course, brought a somber mood to the HD DVD vs Blu-ray war.
The HD DVD Promotional Group released a statement about the news that was fairly short.
"While Warner's decision is a setback for HD DVD, the consumer has benefited from HD DVD's commitment to quality and affordability -- a bar that is critical for the mainstream success of any format. We believe widespread adoption of a next generation format will ultimately be determined by the consumer."
There has been no news on what the plans are for the format going forward. With the sentiment that the winner will be determined by the consumer implies that they have not given up the fight. With such little content for the format, it is difficult to imagine HD DVD can still pull this out.
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January 5th, 2008
They just have to hope that the consumer is retarded and will opt for a device that cant play 70% of films.
I wouldn’t be at all surprised to see retailers simply drop HD-DVD which would put an immediate end to this they already prefer BluRay because they make more money from it. A retailer makes about 35% profit on electronics which means they make about $150 on each BluRay player but only $35 on a $100 HD-DVD player. That means of course that they have to sell 5 HD-DVD players to make the same profit they can from one BluRay player and that means 5 times more work, 5 times more delivery costs and 5 times more storage needed. It would be OK if HD-DVD were massively outselling BluRay but standalone player sales are actually almost the same.
HD-DVD is finished and the best thing Toshiba could do is accept that, cut their losses and get making BluRay players ASAP.
January 5th, 2008
i just removed my hd dvd off ebay too show my support will continue for as long as the discs keep coming.
take notice studios 1million players will not just go in the trash we will still buy and hopefully you will do the right thing and support both fully