How long til HD DVD dies in Europe and Asia?

[Firestreak]

I was thinking that would start a pretty big chain reaction. While HD DVD is being produced in other countries, a lot of Blu exclusives are available for import on HD DVD. But that has me thinking. With the sales ratio skewed 4 to 1 in Europe and worse elsewhere, why is it even still being produced there? How long until retailers stop stocking it and distributors stop printing them? I could see the lack of imports forcing a lot of the hardcore to go neutral by choking their selection.

[BlackMR2]

Well HD DVDs are much cheaper to produce because they can be made on upgraded DVD production machines. Therefore their would probably always be a market for their production even if it meant smaller pressing companies did it.

[Firestreak]

You think there's a market for them if the format is dead in that region? Or will they be supported in large part by exporting?

[BlackMR2]

could be either way i guess.

Be careful when you say a format could be dead in a region because remember when talking about ASIA, China is going CH-DVD and that is very close to HD DVD spec.

[JonasK]

Originally Posted by BlackMR2

Well HD DVDs are much cheaper to produce because they can be made on upgraded DVD production machines. Therefore their would probably always be a market for their production even if it meant smaller pressing companies did it.

It's a myth that HD DVD discs are "much" cheaper. It's fraction of a dollar.

[JonasK]

Originally Posted by BlackMR2

could be either way i guess.

Be careful when you say a format could be dead in a region because remember when talking about ASIA, China is going CH-DVD and that is very close to HD DVD spec.

The Chinese video format has also been to submitted to BDA...

[Zyclone]

HD DVD is not in the lead in those areas but its still fairly young in its life cycle so they have'nt killed it yet because its still new to the market if blu ray is leading 80-90 percent of the market everywhere then expect HD DVD to die soon if not it will be crawling around for a few years.

[mattym]

hddvd isnt in the lead in europe, in the uk the numbers for both are small, but BD is outselling HDDVD by some way

[joeorc]

Originally Posted by BlackMR2

could be either way i guess.

Be careful when you say a format could be dead in a region because remember when talking about ASIA, China is going CH-DVD and that is very close to HD DVD spec.

and that CHINA is going CH-DVD is not 100% of the market just like every other market is not 100% HD DVD or Blu-RAY.

[Blu-Style]

I thought the "war" is over in Japan... Blu-ray won

And Japan is definitely one of the future country´s

[Rio]

I'm not sure how much people here from European countries and Australia who are interested in BD recorder, Panasonic mentioned in this article on AV Watch that they are planning to do BD recorder business in Australia first, then France and UK. No concrete release timing mentioned, though.

[w_tanoto]

japan 9:1
aussie 8:1
uk 4:1
eu 2:1

hd dvd does not exist in most south-east asian country legally (Import exists, but not legally)

[WickyWoo]

HD DVD is dead in Japan. Almost entirely dead.

It's dying fast in Europe

[Studio Support]

Originally Posted by Firestreak

I was thinking that would start a pretty big chain reaction. While HD DVD is being produced in other countries, a lot of Blu exclusives are available for import on HD DVD. But that has me thinking. With the sales ratio skewed 4 to 1 in Europe and worse elsewhere, why is it even still being produced there? How long until retailers stop stocking it and distributors stop printing them? I could see the lack of imports forcing a lot of the hardcore to go neutral by choking their selection.

Right now HD DVD and Blu-Ray are not going anywhere. DVD still dominates in almost every single country.