Blu-ray: 5 to 1 Edge Over HD DVD Players

[HDTV1080P]

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Blu-ray: 5 to 1 Edge Over HD DVD Players
Research firm says 1.5 million homes have Blu-ray players.
By Phillip Swann
http://www.tvpredictions.com/bluray062007.htm

[jermwhl]

DEG says consumers have spent $55 million on high-def DVD titles to date, with $35 million on Blu-ray movies and $19 million on HD DVDs.

Sweet!

It's nice to see some sales numbers INCLUDING ps3 and the 360 add-on!

[babyBlu]

That is nice to hear. I wish there was some way to quantify how many PS3 owners use it as a BD player, to get more accurate numbers. Just think if all PS3 owners would purchase just 2 or 3 BD's (which would total less then the price of 1 PS3 game). The impact would be astronomical.

Sony should try to do some kind of poll. Maybe when people go to update their PS3 firmware, there could be a simple 'do you use PS3 for BD's' poll.

[marzetta7]

Keep in mind too, that this is just for US I believe. Outside of this, the ratio gets even better.

[Blubaru]

Check out the rankings on the DVD wars

http://www.eproductwars.com/dvd/

[ps3andlovinit]

Originally Posted by Blubaru

Check out the rankings on the DVD wars

http://www.eproductwars.com/dvd/

It's a slaughter.

What happened to HD-DVD discs being cheaper for the consumer?

[GoldenRedux]

I had to bookmark that as ammunition.

[Scorxpion]

Originally Posted by marzetta7

Keep in mind too, that this is just for US I believe. Outside of this, the ratio gets even better.

Yes indeed,

I live in Lebanon and PS3 is the only Blu-ray player for the time being in my Location.PS3 is an explosion machine.NO HD-DVD player at all even with The XBOX 360 no ADD ON and NO HD-DVD Movies.

IN Virgin Megastore you can find only BD movies ...Whereas at the time PS3 being released two month ago it did cost you $800

NOW IT DID COST YOU $600.

SWEET ALL THE WAY........,

[atomik kinder]

Originally Posted by babyBlu

Sony should try to do some kind of poll. Maybe when people go to update their PS3 firmware, there could be a simple 'do you use PS3 for BD's' poll.

I think they did when I first signed up for the PS3 network or some such. I remember the question about will you be using your PS3 as.... It would be nice to see some numbers as to the amount of people who are using them that way. Just from reading posts here it looks like a lot of people are doing just that.

[Scorxpion]

Thanks for PS3 which did an explosion in high definition World.

Thanks for BDP-S1 Related to Sony.

Thanks for PANASONIC Player which indeed does a good JOB.

Now what will happened during the following month with BDP-S300 player which are selling like hot cakes for $499

And 2nd Generation Panasonic BDP-10A which is going to release now.

[movies3]

wow!!! thats awesome, i guess ppl are finally realizing

[darinp2]

Originally Posted by HDTV1080P

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Blu-ray: 5 to 1 Edge Over HD DVD Players

While I think people mislead with the 4:1 attach rate claim for HD DVD, it is also somewhat misleading to use the 5:1 edge in players without mentioning that those PS3s should sell less discs per player on average. Blu-ray is leading for software sales, but that 5:1 claim could mislead some people.

DEG says consumers have spent $55 million on high-def DVD titles to date, with $35 million on Blu-ray movies and $19 million on HD DVDs.

Interesting numbers given that it is over 1.8:1 and I think even higher than what Nielsen lists for SI ratio for discs. Pretty impressive for Blu-ray, especially considering that HD DVD likely ended 2006 with a big lead.

--Darin

[desmond]

another good quote:


“Between April and mid-December, it was a warm-up, and since Christmas, it has been a very sustained level of business,” said Nickerson. "Really, this year is preparing for further consumer uptake of high-def. It will mirror the year 1999 or 2000 for DVD.”


anyone other than msft employees still think bd will fail as successor to dvd?

[Deciazulado]

Originally Posted by darinp2

Interesting numbers given that it is over 1.8:1 and I think even higher than what Nielsen lists for SI ratio for discs. Pretty impressive for Blu-ray, especially considering that HD DVD likely ended 2006 with a big lead.

Yeah that would give "Nielsens" of 65/35 SI