Xbox addon sales numbers in..

[BTBuck1]

Wasnt this suppossed to neutralize the ps3's BD player impact? 42 thousand seems like a tiny amount, however that is about how many hddvd players toshiba sold in 6 months, so i guess their userbase doubled, actually it probably didn't...(avs'rs probably bought a large amount of these) as they sold out on amazon (their haven), but retailers have had them pretty handily. I'd guess that close to half of these sold were to people who already owned a buggy A1/XA1 (like me) and wanted to watch "End of Days" without it studdering all over the place

[b2bonez]

Originally Posted by Brian@BBY

Wasnt this suppossed to neutralize the ps3's BD player impact? 42 thousand seems like a tiny amount, however that is about how many hddvd players toshiba sold in 6 months, so i guess their userbase doubled, actually it probably didn't...(avs'rs probably bought a large amount of these) as they sold out on amazon (their haven), but retailers have had them pretty handily. I'd guess that close to half of these sold were to people who already owned a buggy A1/XA1 (like me) and wanted to watch "End of Days" without it studdering all over the place

As far as I can tell all of the die-hard HD-DVD fans own a A1, Xbox addon, and either have a A2 or are waiting for the XA2. I guess after they buy 4 or 5 players they will end up with one that "kinda" works "OK"... And they will be all bragging how "cheap" all 4 or 5 players were when they bought them..

Been there, done that... I got 8 or 10 "prize" DVD players in my collection..

What's the term.. ?? "penny wise and pound foolish"

b2b

[Josh]

https://forum.blu-ray.com/showthread.php?t=4084

Closing duplicate thread in wrong forum.

[dialog_gvf]

Originally Posted by Brian@BBY

Wasnt this suppossed to neutralize the ps3's BD player impact? 42 thousand seems like a tiny amount, however that is about how many hddvd players toshiba sold in 6 months, so i guess their userbase doubled, actually it probably didn't...(avs'rs probably bought a large amount of these) as they sold out on amazon (their haven), but retailers have had them pretty handily. I'd guess that close to half of these sold were to people who already owned a buggy A1/XA1 (like me) and wanted to watch "End of Days" without it studdering all over the place

Other factors:

- People willing to spend only $200 are likely less willing to spend a lot on movie discs.
- How long after the initial thrill does the fan noise become an issue?
- How about the nagging knowledge you can never get DVD upconversion or HD audio? (Who cares, when the fanboys make such a big deal of that normally?)
- That bible of HD DVD camp: thedvdwars.com shows a negative trend after the add-on and a flat trend for BD after the PS/3.

How are the add-on sales at your store? Did you get any A2s yet (that sounds like it is buggier than the A1!)?

Gary

[b2bonez]

May as well post my comments too..

As far as I can tell all of the die-hard HD-DVD fans own a A1, Xbox addon, and either have a A2 or are waiting for the XA2. I guess after they buy 4 or 5 players they will end up with one that "kinda" works "OK"... And they will be all bragging how "cheap" all 4 or 5 players were when they bought them..

Been there, done that... I got 8 or 10 "prize" DVD players in my collection..

What's the term.. ?? "penny wise and pound foolish"

b2b

[Jim]

Originally Posted by WriteSimply

f) Shaving Ryan's Privates finally arriving on BD.



fuad

Or any movie with Brock Masters!!

[Deciazulado]

Originally Posted by b2bonez

Every time I see those inflated numbers for HD-DVD, all I do is look at the numbers for DVD back when it started. 315,136 DVD players were sold in 1997 and that was with every unit a plug compatible replacement for VCR players. All of these wild eyed predictions are pure BS. How they come up with them is beyond me...

http://www.thedigitalbits.com/articl...advdsales.html

b2b

I dug an old post from the Deci-vault
(Most that info if not all I got from the DVD FAQ):

DVD

The first players appeared in Japan in November, 1996, followed by U.S. players in March, 1997. Prices for the first players in 1997 were $1000 and up. By the end of 2000, players were available for under $100 at discount retailers. In 2003 players became available for under $50. Six years after the initial launch, close to one thousand models of DVD players were available from over a hundred consumer electronics manufacturers

DVD discs

The first titles released in the U.S., on March 19, 1997, by Lumivision, authored by AIX Entertainment, were IMAX adaptations.
The Warner Bros. U.S. launch followed on March 24.

8 months of HD-DVD and 5 months of Blu-ray...

lets see

my rough calculations:

DVD player sales in 8 first months: 272,500, HD-DVD players (includes game console): 77,000?
DVD player sales in 5 first months: 144,000, BD players (includes game console): 222,000? (Anybody have good figures of the BD stand-alones?)


Why can't we have a table like the Bits link for HD?

[BTBuck1]

Originally Posted by dialog_gvf

How are the add-on sales at your store? Did you get any A2s yet (that sounds like it is buggier than the A1!)?

Gary

Add on sales are meh, for something as new as it is, and being that it's christmas...i'd expect them to be sold out...but they aren't. we sell about 1-2 per week.

We received 4 HD-A2's tuesday (it's now thursday...we sold 1)

we have sold over 8 BDPS1's and 4 BDP1000's in the last 2 weeks. and ps3's within 45 minutes of arrival =)