Top-Grossing Movie Distributors 1995 to 2006

[Ascended_Saiyan]

Originally Posted by Waelan

Although it probably wont get the same quality as accepting the 1080p directly I heard that tv sets with 1080i can upgrade their signal to 1080p if its a 1080p movie/game. It was discussed about ps3 games so Im not sure how good the upgraded signal is to a real one but if its still better than 1080i thats good right?

On a side note does anyone have a list of the size of the movie companies up there ^^^^ at the top just how big they are compared to each other. And didnt I read that Sony itself holds right to many movies too?

Nintendo was considering HD-DVD earlier but since has gone on official record they will use DVDs instead same with xbox 360 so you can remove that whenever. You are also missing New Line Cinemas they are a major movie company backing HD-DVD.

Here is the list of studios in the order of most movies and revenue. It also lists some of the biggest money makers for those studios!

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[Alex Pallas]

^had no idea sony was ranked so high

by the way are there statistics available for the actual number of players being sold?

[Ascended_Saiyan]

Originally Posted by Alex Pallas

^had no idea sony was ranked so high

by the way are there statistics available for the actual number of players being sold?

Just a few news articles that said that Blu-ray sold about 15,000 and HD-DVD sold about 20,000 (at that time). Now, Toshiba is saying they have sold 50,000 players world-wide so far. They are shooting for 200,000 players sold by the end of the year. Meanwhile, Sony is shooting for 4 million (PS3s) sold by the end of the year (world-wide). Overwhelming isn't it? How does HD-DVD think they can survive?

[vick vega]

Are they counting the pre-orders for the players that haven't launched yet or just the Samsung? And unfortunately yes hd dvd does think they can survive. There is two ways to look at this though, the pragmatic way that hd dvd is pushing blu-ray to improve itself or the pessimistic way that hd dvd is slowing down the eventual adoption of blu-ray along w/consumer confusion