2006 - The Box Office of Doom for HD DVD?

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Originally Posted by Deciazulado

According to the Apocalist™ table, HD DVD had about 18 titles per month on average last year while BD had 23, so using only that early sample number, we would have another 216 HD DVDs, vs 276 BDs, in a year.

But to mantain that pace for HD DVD, Universal alone has to release another 83 HD DVDs in that period to keep the numbers up, while to just equal the total HD DVD output, SonyColumbiaTri-Star/Fox/Warner/Paramount/BuenaVistaDisneyPixar/MGM would only have to release 36 BDs each if divided that way.

Kind of unfair to Universal

Three per month per studio? That would be extremely poor support, in my opinion.

So, taking a slow support level of three titles twice per month (6 titles/month) from each of the major five studios, that would be 360 titles for 2007. Assuming 36 titles from MGM and 18 from LGF, that would be a total of 414 for 2007.

HD DVD would get 144 of those titles + maybe 18 from Weinstein.

So all Universal needs to do is to dump 252 titles to keep HD DVD level. Any better support of course puts HD DVD deeper in the hole. Perhaps Universal can create 200 versions of KK to fill that void somewhat?

Gary