US HD Hardware Sales 3:1 in Blu-ray's Favour by Year End

[marzetta7]

US HD Hardware Sales 3:1 in Blu-ray's Favour by Year End

http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2007/12...re_sales_2007/

US households will together own 948,000 HD DVD playback devices and almost 3m Blu-ray Disc-capable machines come the end of 2007, market watcher DisplaySearch has estimated.

Breaking those numbers down, we get 2.5m PlayStation 3s, 678,000 HD DVD players, 461,000 Blu-ray Disc players and 270,000 Xbox 360 add-on drives, DisplaySearch said via Home Media Magazine.

Add those numbers up and for every living room-oriented HD DVD device out there, there are three Blu-ray machines.

That statistic may well give Warner's home entertainment division pause for thought if it is indeed waiting to see each format's end-of-year hardware sales before deciding whether to back a single format as some industry insiders have alleged it's considering.

For its part, Warner's only comment on the matter has been to state it has "made no decision to change our present policy which is to produce in both HD DVD and Blu-ray".

Newspaper columnist Bob Lindich maintains this statement's lack of a denial or ambiguous language, not to mention the fact the Warner issued it quickly, is a sign that no move's on the cards.

However, Warner's statement doesn't contradict the aforementioned claims, which suggest it's waiting to see the numbers before casting its lot one way or another. Until then, of course Warner is going to maintain its support-both-formats policy.

Yeah, I think Warner has already made a decision, they're just waiting for the proper venue after Christmas.

[dialog_gvf]

With a 65:35 SI as a guide, 948,000 HD DVD players would be 1.75 million equivalent Blu-ray players (in use as Blu-ray players).

So, now we're now at the point where HD DVD has to increase deployment by 84% (with zero extra Blu-ray player sales) for HD DVD to merely catch up.

And where is any sign that PS/3 sales aren't INCREASING? And that Blu-ray players aren't getting more and more competitive?

June 2006: $1000 - $499 = $500
Dec 2007: $279 - $225 = $55

Gary

[Blu-heaven]

nice read - i hope this true about Warner looking at this prediction and make its way to Blu-ray

[MATTYBLU2]

Originally Posted by dialog_gvf

With a 65:35 SI as a guide, 948,000 HD DVD players would be 1.75 million equivalent Blu-ray players (in use as Blu-ray players).

So, now we're now at the point where HD DVD has to increase deployment by 84% (with zero extra Blu-ray player sales) for HD DVD to merely catch up.

And where is any sign that PS/3 sales aren't INCREASING? And that Blu-ray players aren't getting more and more competitive?

June 2006: $1000 - $499 = $500
Dec 2007: $279 - $225 = $55

Gary

I hope you guys are right. because i can not wait till the world is full blu.

[Crackbone]

If there is any logic in their decision, They'll go BD. The numbers don't lie. Furthermore, that's only a look @ the US numbers, a worldwide snapshot completely obliterates HD DVD.

There's really only ONE logical decision that Warner can make. Drop the DUD.

[marzetta7]

Originally Posted by Crackbone

If there is any logic in their decision, They'll go BD. The numbers don't lie. Furthermore, that's only a look @ the US numbers, a worldwide snapshot completely obliterates HD DVD.

There's really only ONE logical decision that Warner can make. Drop the DUD.

Indeeeeeeeeeeeeeeed!

[ACD]

I think the article is actually wrong....

There will be over 3 million Blu-ray capable machine by the end of the year in the US, not under. With the PS3 selling around 200,000 more since Black Friday, its about 2.9 million right now.