Comments on: HD DVD Promotional Group releases statement on Warner Brothers move to Blu-ray http://tech.blorge.com/Structure: /2008/01/05/hd-dvd-promotional-group-releases-statement-on-warner-brothers-move-to-blu-ray/ Technology news Sun, 22 Nov 2009 16:15:02 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: ljbanner http://tech.blorge.com/Structure:/2008/01/05/hd-dvd-promotional-group-releases-statement-on-warner-brothers-move-to-blu-ray/comment-page-1/#comment-66216 ljbanner Sun, 06 Jan 2008 02:12:57 +0000 http://tech.blorge.com/Structure: /2008/01/05/hd-dvd-promotional-group-releases-statement-on-warner-brothers-move-to-blu-ray/#comment-66216 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 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

]]> By: Igor http://tech.blorge.com/Structure:/2008/01/05/hd-dvd-promotional-group-releases-statement-on-warner-brothers-move-to-blu-ray/comment-page-1/#comment-66164 Igor Sat, 05 Jan 2008 20:43:01 +0000 http://tech.blorge.com/Structure: /2008/01/05/hd-dvd-promotional-group-releases-statement-on-warner-brothers-move-to-blu-ray/#comment-66164 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. 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.

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