Blu-Ray Outsells HD-DVD

Surprising, no?



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I don't care!

I don't care about nothin!

NOTHIN!!

*Googlah, googlah, googlah*

Not really surprised currently.

Whichever format gets a sub-$150 player out on the market, probably stands the best chance of succeeding, if either succeed at all.

Tell me one of them is dead and the other is the industry norm and I'll invest in one. Until then my money goes to old school DVDs

But Walmart just announced today they've sourced 200,000 HD-DVD players that they'll be selling for under $300.

Meanwhile for $200 you can get 5.1 surround with a 5 disc DVD player. Hmmm....

I heard that was a misprint. It was Blu-Ray they were talking about.

Actually, this doesn't surprise me at all.

Sony might not be winning the game console war with the PS3 but it has moved enough units to take a lead in the HD format war.

They took a big gamble but it could pay off for them big time down the road.

I read just the other day an article saying that while the top-selling high-def discs like Casino Royale are selling relatively well, there are far more lower-tier titles that have failed to sell even *1000* copies since release (and that's a nationwide total)! It makes sense to me - if I've invested in a high-def setup, it's not because I'm interested in getting White Chicks on blu-ray.

What do you have against white chicks? Mewa?

White chicks are fine, although you seem to be partial to asians in your avatars...

Well I'm out of avatars as of that one...I'm in trouble.

Time for a contest?

Fine by me.

I watched Terminator 2 on Blu-Ray last night. Awesome.

Did it freeze up during the town sequence near the end when two soldiers are inside? If so, it might be the software and not the player... That's the only freeze I've had.

No, it froze up in the same spot both times, shortly after the beginning of act II, as the grunts are walking down a road after Joker meets back up with Cowboy and has his little face-off with Animal Mother.

There's no way Sony'll hand out a license for Blu-Ray to anyone who intends to sell a player that costs drastically less than their $600 paperweight.

(Gozer to Sony)
Then....DIIIIIIIIIEEEE!!!!!

Huh.

Well, the only freeze-up I've had has been with FMJ. Superman, Superman Returns, The Searchers, The Terminator, Terminator 2, Rocky Balboa, The Fugitive, Bullitt, Chicago, First Blood, Blazing Saddles, and Casino Royale all played without a hitch.

Well, if they don't, not only will Sony again lose a format war, but if prices don't decrease, high-def will never be anything more than a small niche market for videophiles, just like laserdisc.

Since we've both had problems with FMJ, maybe it's something about the disc rather than the PS3. Casino Royale played beautifully for me.

Samsung's player is already several hundred dollars cheaper than Sony's and Sony itself is bringing a $600 Blu-Ray machine to market by summer.

I can get a HD-DVD player for £130

Yes, HD-DVD does have the lead on hardware cost.

But it doesn't seem to be helping the relative sales of their software much.

Ooh, interesting.

And of course the French just released a 3rd hi-def format.

Either Blu-Ray or HD-DVD WILL be the main movie format in a few years time. Laserdisc died because it was expensive and cumbersome, and was outdated by DVD. It's going to be a long long time before we need media storage formats that exceed the resolution of either HD format, and the dvd form factor has proved to be a convenient and succesful one.

Personally I think that when printing costs start getting less we will see some studios start releasing all their movies exclusively on Blu-Ray or HD-DVD, with the HD version on one side, and a standard DVD version on the other side for compatability with older players.

I guess random bashing is the only thing Xbox fanboi's can do against the PS3 when they realize all the 360 games suck.

Like I said... PS3 = win for blu-ray.

Even though PS3 hasn't hit a very huge market, it still established a lot of blu-ray players into living rooms that wouldn't have been there otherwise.