HD-DVD vs Blu-Ray

Is there any official sales figures for them both. Would be interesting to
know which is winning so far.

"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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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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> "David Parkes" <wibble@wobble.com> wrote in message
> newssjAqWqhHHA.4772@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...
>> 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/
>
> *Remove nospam. to reply by e-mail*
>
>

David Parkes wrote:
>
> 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
>


Does it have anything to do with your betamax tape collection?

How do you know about my betamax tape collection!!

Lol


"xTenn" <xTennREMOVETHISPART@tds.net> wrote in message
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> David Parkes wrote:
>>
>> 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
>>
>
>
> Does it have anything to do with your betamax tape collection?

Well Sony did fail with the Betamax so we can only hope it happens again in
this format war

"xTenn" <xTennREMOVETHISPART@tds.net> wrote in message
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> David Parkes wrote:
>>
>> 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
>>
>
>
> Does it have anything to do with your betamax tape collection?