HD DVD Winning - This Week July 16, 2007

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Statistics are a bit like plasticine in that you can pretty much mangle them into whatever shape you like with a little imagination.

Still, it would be unfair if we didn't cover the stats erupting from both the Blu-ray and HD DVD camps in the ever ridiculous high-def format war. This week, we will be mostly covering the plasticine from the HD DVD playgroup. We were here last month too.

According to the European HD DVD Promotional Group, stand-alone HD DVD players are outselling standalone Blu-ray players by a margin of 3-to-1 in Europe’s main markets between January and May this year. Those main markets by the way are Britain, Germany, France, Italy, Spain and Switzerland [Switzerland?].

Right, so you control 74% of the market so that’s 74% of how many players sold? Ah, sorry we can’t release that information. OK, so how many HD DVD players have you sold? Sorry, we can’t release that information. As far as I can tell, and I’m no mathematician, 74% of an unconfirmed figure amounts to um, er….diddly-squat.

Oh yeah, this latest research didn’t include Blu-ray equipped PS3s. How convenient.-Martin Lynch

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