Fantastic Paul,
Very imformative. I just wanted to know really not to bothered but for some
reason I have a dark want for the Blu Ray to fail. lol
Thanks very much
"Paul Smith" <Paul@nospam.windowsresource.net> 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.
>
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