Indemnity83

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HD-DVD & Blu-Ray. In the end the battle between the two formats will conclude when dual-format players are readily available and studios start choosing whichever format is cheaper to manufacture.

But for now there is a battle, one which HD-DVD seems to have at least gotten a jump on. What evidence do I base this on? Its hardly scientific, but head over to Amazon and search for the regular DVD version of “Planet Earth”, or just click here.

As a quick side note… Blue Planet is an incredible series that takes you everywhere on earth, and its truly amazing to watch in HD.

Anyway, back on topic. The basis I have for my “HD-DVD is winning” argument is this, scroll down a little on the page and you’ll see the section that lists “What customers ultimately bought after viewing this item” and you’ll see that 7% of people ultimately bought the HD-DVD version, and 4% ultimately bought the Blu-Ray version.

Scientific, hell no… good enough for me? Of course.

That is all.

Written by Kyle

April 25th, 2007 at 4:58 pm

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  • http://syngamer.com Dustin

    HD-DVD just announced that they surpassed 100,000 HD-DVD’s sold, but Blu-ray (thanks to the PS3) just announced that they surpassed 1,000,000 Blu-ray discs sold…

    It will still be a few years before we find a winner, personally i think it will more then likely be a matter of who is more successful due to as you said the dual-format players.

  • Indemnity83

    Do you mean players? I’m honestly curious as to where you got your numbers from because from what I understood, those numbers are kept secret.

    And I’m only discussing Movies here, so PS3 games shouldn’t be included in the sales number.

  • http://syngamer.com Dustsin
  • Indemnity83

    You’ve got apples and oranges from that first link. HD-DVD PLAYERS against Blu-Ray DISKS.

    And the second article is only looking at a two week window where HD-DVD didn’t even release any new titles. Its not an argument thats going to make me take back my statement.

    Statistics are easily twisted is all I’m getting at.

  • http://syngamer.com Dustin

    I’m not trying to change your statement, i was just pointing out that Sony announced that they have sold over a million Blu-ray movies. While HD-DVD has only sold 100,000 HD-DVD players. So that would mean that each person that owns an HD-DVD players has bought 10 HD-DVD’s…i they want to compare to sales of Blu-ray movies.

  • The Bro

    Dustin is correct. Last I checked (and I don’t feel like checking again right now) Bluray was outselling HD-DVD 2:1.