So who's winning?

[marwan]

this is not a flame thread or anything of that sort, i'm just curious to know who's ahead, BD or HD-DVD? i heard on some other site that DB is out selling HD-DVD, is this true? are there any official figures? i figure the PS3 has something to do with this since it helped penetrate the market.

[BluSmoke]

Blu-ray is beating HD DVD by 2:1 and growing. Blu-ray has also surpassed the total HD DVD disc sales.

[Petra]

blu-camp is winning

[Dave]

Blu-ray wins with Hardware , Software and sales and support.

In all possible categories...

[Jodi]

Originally Posted by Dave

Blu-ray wins with Hardware , Software and sales and support.

In all possible categories...

On that note.......
Universal, KNEEL BEFORE ZOD!! er, uh, BLU-RAY!!

Jodi

[Scorxpion]

Last week Casino royale was 42 on Amazon today is 32 ,maybe the most smashing ever titles has been hitting around and for a while crashing position after position and still are we going asking ourseleves who is winning,of Course Blu-ray is winning by miles......this is only an amazon what about others sites and in superstore what will happened once this title is online .Hey you Universal and to whom still thinking that Blu-ray is a looser format that check blu-ray sales by next week and of course releasing blu-ray worldwide.

[Jack Torrance]

Originally Posted by marwan

this is not a flame thread or anything of that sort, i'm just curious to know who's ahead, BD or HD-DVD? i heard on some other site that DB is out selling HD-DVD, is this true? are there any official figures? i figure the PS3 has something to do with this since it helped penetrate the market.

Blu-ray is outselling hd-dvd at last report 2:1, but many expect that to be 3:1 very soon. Blu-ray is also winning in sales since inception, despite hd-dud's headstart.

Sales among standalone players (i.e. not including the ps3) are now about equal, and with lower priced blu-ray players that should go completely in favor of blu-ray as well.

Any hd-dud fanboi that wants to dispute these facts needs to also be reminded that the year is 2007, the earth is not flat and orange juice is still orange in color.

[cdblu]

when will sales numbers for bd february be released?

[marwan]

wow, that's excellent news! GO BLU-RAY!

[Blue]

Are these figures for the US and Canada or world wide? March will be interesting, but I think Casino Royale is going to cause a blip in March, so will not be an acurate picture unless figures for that movie are published. April should see the impact of the PS3 on world wide sales.

[Knight-Errant]

Originally Posted by Blue

Are these figures for the US and Canada or world wide? March will be interesting, but I think Casino Royale is going to cause a blip in March, so will not be an acurate picture unless figures for that movie are published. April should see the impact of the PS3 on world wide sales.

Those are US and Canada figures.

But I can tell you that Blu-ray has flattened HD-DVD in Japan (a crucial electronics market) and in the UK (my territory) I only hear talk of Blu-ray.

[dialog_gvf]

Originally Posted by Blue

Are these figures for the US and Canada or world wide? March will be interesting, but I think Casino Royale is going to cause a blip in March, so will not be an acurate picture unless figures for that movie are published. April should see the impact of the PS3 on world wide sales.

Just North America.

In Japan Blu-ray is destroying HD DVD (Nov/Dec was 96% hardware sales in BD's favour). Top 10 on amazon.co.jp is ~500 for BD and ~4000 for HD DVD. In other words, BD has already won in Japan.

Figures for Europe show such absolutely tiny disc sales (< 14K total in the UK for HD DVD) that really it could be argued that neither format has really launched there. On PS/3 release day in UK + Europe, Blu-ray movie discs sales will permanently surpass HD DVD. Hence, that's why it has been endless anti-PS/3 propaganda lately. They are desperate.

Gary