HD DVD Camp Claims More Sales. Again November 13, 2007
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The silly format war between HD DVD and Blu-ray is still alive and well and back in gold old, ‘tit-for-tat’ mode with new sales figures. HD DVD is still winning, according to itself.
According to the European HD DVD Promotional Group, UK HD DVD player owners buy an average 3.7 movies each compared to the 0.8 average for owners of Blu-ray players. That’s four times higher than Blu-ray take-up – if the research is to be believed.
The survey is based on movie sales data gathered by Gfk and shows that across Europe, owners of HD DVD players snap up 3.7 movies each compared to 0.6 by Blu-ray owners. The data, surprisingly, includes PS3 console owners so it makes the gap even more glaring.
The Spanish are the biggest HD DVD movie shoppers, averaging 5.7 movies per player, while those from Benelux and Germany are the weakest at 2.9 movies per HD DVD fan.
The sooner dual-format HD players that don’t cost the Earth arrive, the better.-Martin Lynch
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Agreed - the dual format will be the way to go in the future - they are already coming down in price
Holographic disks are just around the corner and will make blu-ray and HD-DVD a complete waste of money.
The article says "The data, surprisingly, includes PS3 console owners so it makes the gap even more glaring."
Actually the opposite is true. By including the PS3 owners the gap is justified as you are including all the people who bought a PS3 just to play games and do not care about blue-ray.