The “HD Civil War” (Copyright Rodney Brazeau) between HD DVD and BluRay has taken another turn. Another one in favor of HD DVD. Some people were all but calling the war over with BluRay the winner… (which was WAY too premature), and then Paramount announced it would only distribute its movies on HD DVD. Now… it seems the tide has shifted.
This comes to us from VideoBusiness:
HD DVD players began outselling Blu-ray models starting in mid-September and regained a year-to-date lead of a little over 50% through the rest of the month, said Jodi Sally, Toshiba VP of marketing of digital A/V products.
Year to date, according to NPD figures she cited, HD DVD players command 53% of sales; Blu-ray players, 44%; dual format players, 3%.
Man, I remember when I put up that post about Paramount picking HD DVD and everyone railed that BluRay was going to dominate and win, and that this was just going to prolong things. And I told people… look… only about 5% of homes have HD systems right now… it’s FAR too early to start proclaiming a winner. And now HD DVD is out selling Blu Ray. When only like 5% of the market has the stuff… “who is winning” can swing back and forth awfully fast.
Until there is only 1 universal format, I’m quite happy with my Plasma and DVD player thank you very much. Let me know who wins… I don’t care which one of them do.
