Comments on: HD DVD Now Outselling BluRay

By: #007#

#007# — Sun, 14 Oct 2007 18:52:27 +0000

Belive me….sitting on the fence is the best thing to do!

Let the early go-getters with tons of dough duke it out.

By: vargas

vargas — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 19:48:32 +0000

It’s still too early to tell. It’ll probably be about two to three years before we know who wins. Really.

By: Jay E

Jay E — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 18:13:11 +0000

I can’t believe how this spin is getting promoted everywhere when really nothing has changed. This announcement is so minute (and very misleading), why is it news?

All year Blu-ray discs has been outselling HD-DVD 2:1.
Blu-ray players (total) have been outselling HD-DVD 6:1 (that includes the PS3 and 360 add-on)
HD-DVD Stand-alone players have outsold stand-alone Blu-ray players by a small margin

Recently Blu-ray stand-alones started outselling HD-DVD stand-alones. Last week HD-DVD stand-alones started outselling them again. That’s what this announcement is.

So even though Blu-ray has 6 million players out there and HD-DVD has 1 million (including the game systems), and Blu-ray is outselling HD-DVD discs 2:1, HD-DVD puts out a notice saying it’s stand-alones are finally outselling the Blu-ray stand-alones and suddenly everyone thinks HD-DVD is winning…

By: Jamie

Jamie — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 15:57:45 +0000

I just re-read your post darren, i think your thinking of umd thats for the psp, the ps3 is a blu-ray player.

By: Jamie

Jamie — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 15:31:54 +0000

Nearly all if not all blu-ray players play dvd’s including the ps3 they also upscale them to 1080p. As far as releasing titles on blu-ray there are more titles on blu-ray right now than hd-dvd and thats not gonna change even with paramount gone there is still more studio support for blu-ray. According to ammazon there are 476 blu-ray titles for order or pre-order and 383 for hd-dvd. and as far as cost many titles on hd-dvd are combo discs and they cost more than blu-ray discs.

By: Darren J Seeley

Darren J Seeley — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 14:55:15 +0000

I’m one of those who is quite happy with normal DVD. I might get a new player in the future, but it will be another DVD player.
If I had to choose between HDDVD and Blu-Ray, I’d go HDDVD….for one reason. The HDDVD players will also play standard DVDs, BluRay does not and that’s why HDDVD will be the one left standing between them and Blu-Ray.

It all comes down to the consumer and the price point. The majority of us just tossed out our VHS and/or laserdisc collection (or keeping a few as collector items, especially if they were a box set) as we upgraded. Now we have to chuck our superior DVD collection…for Blu Ray when HDDVD says we don’t really have to if we don’t want to we could just “buy” HDDVDs from now on?

@Jamie:

There’s a darn good reason why films released on PS3 isn’t mentioned. It’s a dead format, for the most part.

*No extras -none;

*All “Widescreens” aren’t really that (the aspect ratio of the films is brought down to 1:78 when the films were shot at a different aspect ratio;

*The price was slightly higher than the film on DVD.

* Some studios have either stopped or limited thier films from PS3 releases a year and a half ago because they were losing money.

By: dark_venom

dark_venom — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 14:52:31 +0000

i am good with my ps3 to play blu ray movies

By: Jamie

Jamie — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 13:49:55 +0000

Nice spin they got there they failed to even mention ps3. I own one and have like 15 movies for it. Not to mention they also failed to say how software is doing which we all know is what will push sales and blu-ray outsells hd-dvd 2-1 according to nielson videoscan. and heres a newsflash standalone hd-dvd players have always outsold standalone blu-ray players…….this isnt news.

By: Michael

Michael — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 11:21:03 +0000

@Andrew – Those movies went into BluRay development before Paramount made their announcement about going exclusive HD DVD.

By: AjaxLou

AjaxLou — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 10:43:56 +0000

Once you go High Def you can never go back.

I have a HD DVD player and watching movies in High Def is amazing. Its like a layer of gauze has been removed from the picture. If that’s good enough for you, so be it.

Me, I’m loving the HD world.