FUD alert - HD-DVD supporters twisting the facts... again

[Jack Torrance]

Big surprise -

http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/multime...202090024.html

Honest to God, they just cannot accept the facts and now have to add their own bs and present as fact again...

Sony Gives Blu-Ray Discs for Free: Blu-Ray Outsells HD DVD.
Blu-Ray Discs Outsell HD DVD by a Factor of Two

Category: Multimedia

by Anton Shilov

[ 02/02/2007 | 09:02 AM ]


Sales of movies on Blu-ray discs have surpassed sales of motion pictures on HD DVDs in the USA, a market study by a market tracking agency claims. But that is not a surprise: Sony has bundled some PlayStation 3 game machines with a BD movie and included a voucher for another Blu-ray disc, essentially shipping several hundreds of thousands Blu-ray movies for free.

A recent market research report from Nielsen VideoScan claims that the numbers for the week ending January 7th demonstrate that for every 47.14 HD DVD movies sold, there are 100 Blu-ray movies sold, but on the following week, ending January 14th the amount of HD DVDs sold would be 38.36, for every 100 Blu-ray discs sold, PSX Extreme web-site claims.

This is not the first time when a research indicates about Blu-ray outpacing HD DVD sales. According to 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, a studio that exclusively supports Blu-ray format, Blu-ray discs started to outsell HD DVDs in late December and by early January there were 3.5 BDs sold on every single HD DVD movie.

HD DVD manufacturers – primarily Toshiba and Thompson – said they shipped about 175 thousands of HD DVD players in 2006. But while the Blu-ray camp led by Sony Corp. did not indicate how many players were sold, it is known that Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. shipped one million PlayStation 3 gaming machines in late-2006 – early-2007.

Many of the PlayStation 3 game consoles included Talladega Nights movie on Blu-ray and/or a voucher to purchase a Blu-ray movie for free, meaning that there were several hundred of thousands of Blu-ray movies purchased for free during the period.

Blu-ray disc fiercely competes with HD DVD format to replace conventional DVD in future. While Blu-ray offers larger storage space for content, HD DVD drives and discs are easier and cheaper to produce.

Then explain how in EVERY single chart, for every retailer BD titles are OUTSELLING HD-DUD?! Y'know? With real, cash money... NOT freebies?

I have emailed this dork to this effect, and I suggest if you have 15 seconds to spare, you do too. Fight the bs!