“Blu-ray DVD titles outsold rival HD-DVD titles by almost 2-to-1 in the first nine months of the year,” Reuters reports.
“Home Media Research, a division of Home Media Magazine, said on Tuesday total U.S. sales of Blu-ray discs, using a Sony Corp-backed technology, totaled 2.6 million units from January 1 through Sept 30, versus 1.4 million HD-DVD discs sold. HD-DVD was developed by Toshiba Corp. It is backed by Microsoft Corp. as well as film studios like Time Warner Inc’s Warner Bros.,” Reuters reports.
“Tom Adams, president of Adams Media Research,predicts that for 2007 overall, consumers will spend $186 million purchasing Blu-ray discs, versus $91 million for HD-DVD. Walt Disney Co., Sony, News Corp’s 20th Century Fox, and Lions Gate Entertainment are exclusively in the Blu-ray camp.” Reuters reports.
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Blu-ray outsells HD-DVD = Very lush oddball stud.
Now you know why. The details are always hidden in the code.
Ballmer must be Blu in the face.
Blu Ball-mers
I had Blu Ball-mers once. The doctor perscribed a Mac and now it’s all better.
Blu Ray outsells HD, except for now Paramount is HD exclusive… That sucks. If that didn’t happen, the game would be almost over… but now, HD has life back again…
Nice to hear…
I’ve been hoping Blu-Ray would emerge as the leader..
Maybe now I’ll plunk down the $499 for the PS3 so I can start watching Blu-Ray discs on my 1080p set!
HD-DVD will win…..
Blu-ray will win over HD-DVD for 2 reasons: PS3 and a way cooler name.
HD-DVD sucks and it’s basically only supported by Toshiba and M$. Blu-ray is definitely the superior technology in every way, and is the only HD format with broad based support.
OMG, not this discussion again – but I can’t resist…
The way things are going HDDVD could very well overtake BR as MS continues to buy its way into having its way with the likes of Paramount, et. al.
And for the record, since this will inevitably come up again, MS did invent the VC-1 codec and then, in essence, turned it over to the ISO so that it is now considered a co-developed and licensed technology along with MPEG4 and others. These are two of the approved/recognized standards for high definition video for optical disc playback.
Not surprised. There may have been other factors involved but Blu-ray vs. HD what???? would have been enough IMO.
Lesson? Don’t name your product a nebulous mess of acronyms and numbers and expect it to succeed in the marketplace. You’d think that people spending millions on technology would add a few extra thousands for marketing consultants.
Wonder how Blu-Ray works with ..this ???
meh…
I’ll wait for the $200, dual format player… and the $15 HD or BD disk.
Right now I can’t complain about what my 1080 up-convert, standard DVD player is doing (even on an 8′ projection screen).
Yes, I know what HD looks like from my HD tuner. The difference just isn’t worth jumping in right now.
… and I’ll also be needing a Mac-the-Ripper equivalent for backup protection. No HD Christmas purchases here.
i seriously want blu ray to win and has pretty much every right to. it’s open standards Vs m$ again let your right for openess speak for once.
for once we know what we’re dealing with
Blu-ray movies on my PS3 and 1080p are stunning. Can’t wait for the entire Harry Potter series coming out on Blu-ray Dec. 11th!
I am picking up the spiderman series on 30th sweeeeeet!! You HD-DVD fan boys can go pick up Mr Beans Holiday.
Now you don’t have to plunk down the 499. They’re releasing a new model for 400.
So now there is a $400 Blu-ray player on the market.
Not too good for HD-DVD
http://ps3.ign.com/articles/828/828382p1.html
How long until Blu Ray appears on Macs?
Blu Ray will win once and for all when Apple installs a BD-RW into every last Mac they sell. This would put BD over the top and crush HD DVD.
HD-DVD vs. Blu-Ray DVD, isn’t this VHS vs. Beta again.
VHS won because the players were cheaper and the blank tapes were cheaper.
Beta had the better picture and the tapes were smaller, lasted longer and the picture quality was far better even on well used tapes.
HD-DVD players are cheaper the rest is a wash.
Blu-Ray has a better HD 1080p image and the rest is a wash
The winner, will be the format that can manufacturer a computer drive that does HD-DVD or Blu-Ray Read/Write, DVD Read/Write and CD Read/write for around $200.00 and reasonably priced blank media.
Or the format that can get all the porn companies to exclusively release HD porn DVD’s in their format.
Well Dell seem committed to including blu-ray as standard and I would guess that Apple will have to make some move by Jan or thereabouts though I doubt it will be a complete commitment either way it will likely favour BR I suspect and use the stats and moves by other makers to back up its decision.
18-month period of exclusivity for HD-DVDs by Paramount….
So will Star trek come out on blu-ray then???
BTW Sony will drop the price of the playstation 3 to $400, so keep that in mind!!!!
Screw disk-based media. Screw it. Stuff it in a can of defecation and put it in a block of cement.
The future is file based media, available locally or on a network, playable on iPods and AppleTVs.
No wonder Apple isn’t supported either disk based format: they’re dead once they’re out the door. Why limit yourself to one limited format?
All Apple has to do is release authentic 1920×1080 HD mp4 files and the BluRay / HDDVD split becomes a stupid moot point.
DVD is just an antiquated notion, the leftovers from an old generation whose brains must associate everything with something physical, like a tape cassette, a record, a CD, a DVD. That shit is over, and the sooner the better.
You are all fanboys and idiots for backing any of these overpriced formats. Theses players want exclusive movie rights. Movies are now looking like the video game industry. You either have Mario on the Wii and DS or you get Ratchet and Clank on the PS3 or Halo 3 on a Xbox 360. Movies are for consumers not for competition. So you like disney and you go with Blu-Ray, then no Transformers or Jurassic Park. How silly. These formats will not sell, I dont care how many PS3 units have sold (which are the bulk of Blu Ray players). Standard DVDs are 5-18 bucks and these formats are 19-39. Silly consumers trying to take sides, as if you are getting paid to do so. You sound stupid knocking Ballmer and praising Jobs. If you like a product buy it and shut up, don’t advertise for it or put up your first born. Quit jerking off to the industry. http://web.mac.com/kof4life/Site/Home.html
Why would anyone spend their bank on a Blue-Ray or HD-DVD player when the war looks to go on for years? Movies like Tranformers, only in HD-DVD, and Spiderman, only on Blue-Ray.
This is where Apple has a chance to do some huge damage, and here is Apple’s play:
1. Movies on iTunes coming in Stnd. or HD format
2. AppleTV connects directly to iTunes movie selections (eliminating the computer from the mix).
3. iTunes delivers movie rentals.
HD, iTunes directly to AppleTV and rentals – these are the three keys to having AppleTV emerge as the winner over anchient, 90’s style physical media player technology.
Skip the HD-DVD/Blue-Ray war and just get an AppleTV.