Amazon.com just launched massive price cuts on over 100 HD DVD titles from Universal Pictures. Can price cuts like this help bail out HD DVD’s sinking ship?

Most of the movies on sale are priced at $14.95 with titles like:

On the deal page, Amazon.com writes “for a limited time only – amazing deals on a wide variety of HD titles,” so there’s no indication how long these kinds of prices will stay around, though prices will likely slide upward a little at a time.

As the HD DVD vs Blu Ray war continues, the intense competition should continue to drive prices down until one of the formats loses steam.

Historically Blu Ray has advertised larger capacity discs at 50GB as compared to HD DVD’s 30GB. But, Blu Ray players typically cost more and its discs often are more expensive than HD DVD.

Differences like those don’t seem to be grabbing consumer attention though as the format war continues to pull back and forth.

Blu Ray supporters spell it out, “the HD-DVD format, originally called AOD or Advanced Optical Disc, is based on much of today’s DVD principles and as a result, suffers from many of its limitations. The format does not provide as big of a technological step as Blu-ray Disc. For example, its pre-recorded capacities are 15 GB for a single-layer disc, or 30 GB for a double-layer disc. Blu-ray Disc provides 67% more capacity per layer at 25 GB for a single-layer and 50GB for a double-layer disc.”

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Entry was posted on Sunday, February 3rd, 2008 at 8:51 pm under High Definition Formats.

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