HD-DVD recaptures the lead

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http://www.campaignhd.com/407_HDDVD_Sales_Soar.html

Showing that the sudden drop in HD DVD sales in the first quarter was likely due to the temporary limited amount of new releases, HD DVD sales ROARED back to life in late March, as scores of new releases made their way back into the release pipeline and onto store shelves.

As you will recall from my last opinion piece on the sales of both formats, there was a surge in Bluray movie sales after the Christmas launch of the PS3 – but not nearly enough, in my opinion, to eliminate the people’s choice, HD DVD, from the competitive landscape. I predicted that some of these new PS3 owners would have an initial curiosity which would result in a sales surge for Bluray – particularly as Sony included discount vouchers for the movies with each PS3 sold.

However, it seemed that BD sales started dropping off in February, at which point a series of “2 week sales” events for Bluray movies, including a “50% off” (the retail price, not street price) at Amazon were kicked off, starting around the 6th of March. The effect of the sales clearly halted the slide in BR sales temporarily, as you can see by the graph below, but BD sales then plunged again, as you can see.

However, during March, the temporary lull in HD DVD releases ended and titles were being announced left, right and center. Amazon trackers in particular showed the effects of these new releases, as HD DVD owners waved their credit cards at their screens and summoned the titles to their homes! In fact over 70 titles were announced to land by July (see links) – including The Matrix Trilogy (see links), in two different sets for HD DVD only (due to continued BD development problems apparently (see links).

Buoyed by recent stories and editorials in respected publications, giving the nod to HD DVD as having the superior picture and the best Hi Def players on the market, (see links) HD DVD owners shrugged off repeated assertions by the BDA that the “war is over” and made your choice – HD DVD!
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let the bashing begin.
PS. great game last night doobi... revenge is on its way ",
 
this is like xbox vs ps3...
only with movies and not games:rolleyes:

Bring them prices down!:mad:
Makro sell the bluray writer for R5000!
a blank bluray disk costs R125!!!
 
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It's a biased, pro HD-DVD site

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Anyone got a link to a more neutral sales site?
 
Fudzy said:
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It's a biased, pro HD-DVD site

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Yeah I blogged about this as well before findout they are heavily in favour of HD-DVD... don't ask how I missed it the first time though. I just didn't pay much attention I guess.

It doesn't make the report completely false though, just very questionable.
 
Check my link to DVDEmpire. HD-DVD are catching up but Blu Ray are still smashing them, PS3 or no PS3 I haven't seen any local HD-DVD offerings but I fear HD-DVD might be another LaserDisc failure.
 
Fudzy said:
Check my link to DVDEmpire. HD-DVD are catching up but Blu Ray are still smashing them, PS3 or no PS3 I haven't seen any local HD-DVD offerings but I fear HD-DVD might be another LaserDisc failure.
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Take2 have Blue-ray & HD-DVD
 
But in fairness there's no real local HD-DVD proponent, like Toshiba are not trying to push it into the market.

But with the European independent film-makers and the p0rn industry on the side of HD-DVD, they're in for the fight, we just won't really see it here.
 
doobiwan said:
But with the European independent film-makers and the p0rn industry on the side of HD-DVD, they're in for the fight, we just won't really see it here.
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The pr0n industry isn't really in the HD-DVD team yet. They just released to HD-DVD first, pretty sure there's some Debbie Does Dallas floating around on Betamax.

I was in favour of HD-DVD until they started showing no interest in being released locally :(
 
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doobiwan said:
But in fairness there's no real local HD-DVD proponent, like Toshiba are not trying to push it into the market.

But with the European independent film-makers and the p0rn industry on the side of HD-DVD, they're in for the fight, we just won't really see it here.
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I'm in East London and we have HD-DVDs at the video rental store.
 
Fudzy said:
The pr0n industry isn't really in the HD-DVD team yet. They just released to HD-DVD first, pretty sure there's some Debbie Does Dallas floating around on Betamax.

I was in favour of HD-DVD until they started showing no interest in being released locally :(
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i know but it should be released soon after the blu-ray failure. honestly it costs R370 for a disc, are you mad!?
 
I don't have an HD TV, and no intention of getting one for at least a year or two so I have absolutely no allegiance or intentions at this point. My prediction? The one that releases a standalone player at consumer friendly prices (~$200 / R2000) Will be the one that wins.
 
boramk said:
i know but it should be released soon after the blu-ray failure. honestly it costs R370 for a disc, are you mad!?
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Doubt blu-ray will fail in South Africa. Everyone in South Africa that got/want to get a PS3 "knows" about blu-ray and how awesome it is.
 
Not only that, its still new. The price will fall. Your mad for buying normal DVDs locally in any case.
 
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