Blu-ray players sold during Black Friday?

[lokus]

There is a report over at highdefdigest.com that HDDVD sold approximately 750,000 HDDVD players. Have there been any reports on how many Blu-ray players (standalone and PS3) were sold during Black Friday?

[supersix4]

I doubt it that would have been major news if that were true 750k in sales think we'd have seen that on the news

[BluStar88]

Yeah sounds like DUD FUD to to me. That would have been major news if it happened. I would be willing to be the PS3 sold at least 3 times what DUD did. Especially if you look at volumes over the last few weeks PS3 is rising fast and the DUD crowd had what a fire sale early this year... I would be really shocked if Toshiba hits it units sold target for this fiscal year. PS3 on the other hand still has a better than average chance.

[quexos]

Originally Posted by supersix14

I doubt it that would have been major news if that were true 750k in sales think we'd have seen that on the news

oh but don't worry, that's the total amount of hd-dvd players out there, NOT the amount sold the past week

[monkyman]

Originally Posted by lokus

There is a report over at highdefdigest.com that HDDVD sold approximately 750,000 HDDVD players. Have there been any reports on how many Blu-ray players (standalone and PS3) were sold during Black Friday?

They probibly sold that many players total to date, not on black Friday alone.

[Ispoke]

Originally Posted by monkyman

They probibly sold that many players total to date, not on black Friday alone.

Correct and includes the Xbox add on

[Bullseye]

Originally Posted by lokus

There is a report over at highdefdigest.com that HDDVD sold approximately 750,000 HDDVD players. Have there been any reports on how many Blu-ray players (standalone and PS3) were sold during Black Friday?

That figure is their total to date.

[richard lichtenfelt]

When was the last time that hd dvd claimed anything involving sales that didn't end up being disputed by the marketing research groups?

[NutsAboutPS3]

Originally Posted by Bullseye

That figure is their total to date.

Even if it is a total to date, I thought their previous total to date was only around 400k, so they would have recently almost doubled the total number of HD DVD players sold. If true, this would be a huge increase in player ownership. I see a question about this has been asked in the insiders thread, hopefully we will get some interesting further info / correction.

[monkyman]

http://hollywoodinhidef.com/blog_detail.php?id=141

[BBlue]

Originally Posted by monkyman

http://hollywoodinhidef.com/blog_detail.php?id=141

I like this guy. Telling the thruth the way it really is.

[Go Blu]

During the weekend I did see ALLOT of people buying HD-DUD players with movies.

BUT

I also saw lots of 40gb PS3's moving as well.
The aisle stacks at 2 different Best Buys were down to 1/3 by Sunday.
Although the large majority seemed to be buying it for kids/games.

[NutsAboutPS3]

The HD DVD people do have a fair point in that if you buy an xbox add on HD DVD drive, you are buying it specifically to play HD DVDs, and it is not unreasonable to therefore combine those figures with standalones as "dedicated players".

The same is not true of people buying a PS3, so it is hard to come up with a comparable figure for Blu-ray player ownership, but the "20%" rule of thumb is not a bad one, and by that measure, as hollywoodinhighdef said, there are effectively far more dedicated Blu-ray players than HD DVD players out there.

[Bullseye]

Originally Posted by NutsAboutPS3

Even if it is a total to date, I thought their previous total to date was only around 400k, so they would have recently almost doubled the total number of HD DVD players sold. If true, this would be a huge increase in player ownership. I see a question about this has been asked in the insiders thread, hopefully we will get some interesting further info / correction.

But i don't think they included the add on xbox drive.

[quexos]

Originally Posted by lokus

There is a report over at highdefdigest.com that HDDVD sold approximately 750,000 HDDVD players. Have there been any reports on how many Blu-ray players (standalone and PS3) were sold during Black Friday?

Well according to VGChartz, the PS3 sold over 275 thousand units between Europe and North America. so it's well over 300k with Japan this past week, and this does NOT include Stand-alone players. Not bad IMO