Wednesday, February 28th 2007
Blu-ray Surpasses HD DVD
Blu-ray has now sold more disks overall than rival format HD DVD, selling in a ratio of 100:98.71. Blu-ray has been outselling HD DVD for a few months now, but HD DVD had a head start in sales thanks to an earlier launch date, but due to PS3 there are now five times as many Blu-ray players in homes, making Blu-ray is the obvious choice for most consumers. Blu-ray wasn't helped by its high initial price compared to HD DVD, but that has once again been helped by the relatively cheap PS3. There is still confusion in the market for many consumers as some companies stick exclusively to one format, but studios such as Warner and Paramount are willing to sell on both formats, which has helped boost overall sales.
Source:
Daily Tech
9 Comments on Blu-ray Surpasses HD DVD
I knew Blu-Ray would overtake HD-DVD eventually since it has been outselling HD-DVD.
It costs more to make the 360 as a versatile as the 600$ PS3, by about 50$. I haven't bought the HD-DVD player add-on yet, and I won't until DVDs themselves are no longer the format at all.
the development of blue ray started between 1999-2000, and a successful commercial prototype came 2002 (5 years ago)...Sony (being itself a major studio) was able to sign 7 out 8 movie studios before hand...the only one that they dont have is Universal (they signed a tight contract with HD-DVD, this may hurt them).So the reason why could be partially due to the ps3, but it is due to "first come, first serve" and being that Sony is also a movie studio, and you don't want it to have the upper hand on HD content alone.
Blue ray is winning due to there are more studios producing more movies on it verse hd-dvd media.
as with the dvd +/- war neither sides going to win, it will endup being a shared market.
personaly i prefer + media as i have better luck with it then - most times and the idea/design of + is smarter to me, others have better luck with - media, sames gonna endup being true for hd/bd, hell one will be cheaper and the other will probbly offer more space or higher burn speeds, who the fuk really cares at this point, burners are 500bucks and media.....i dont even want to think about it.
normal dvd's+ windvd8=steller quility even at 1600x1200 :) (the new decoder ROCKS)