"David Parkes" <wibble@wobble.com> wrote in message
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> Is there any official sales figures for them both. Would be interesting to
> know which is winning so far.
Figures released last week, or the week before. Shows stand-alone players
are at 100 000 units for HD DVD and 25 000 units for Blu-ray. That's not
including the HD DVD driver for Xbox 360, or PlayStation 3.
What I generally do is look at the Amazon top 100 list every week or so,
I've only ever seen Blu-ray outsell a HD DVD once (that was Casino Royal).
The rest of the time HD DVD has been on top. At the moment Planet Earth on
HD DVD is a place above the Blu-ray version.
Wal-Mart are also in the process of ordering in 2 million cheap HD DVD
players.
Sales figures aren't enough from either to win the format war outright, but
HD DVD has in my opinion got better films, Lord of the Rings, V for Vendetta
etc and its got 3 and a half times as many. Hopefully the Wal-Mart stuff
will edge HD DVD out, so we won't be stuck with two formats and have to
waste money on dual-format players.
--
Paul Smith,
Yeovil, UK.
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User.
http://www.windowsresource.net/
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