Microsoft hosts an article which says "Blu-ray is in the lead" ???

[Dave]

From MSN Website:
http://tech.msn.com/products/article...mentid=4704112

Content Is King, but Who Is King of the World?
If content is the key to winning the format competition, Blu-ray is in the lead.

and more...

Ultimately, the studios will go where their sales are. And in this respect, too, Blu-ray is showing signs of inching ahead.

and even more...

By the Numbers: Next-Gen Disc Sales
The first inkling of how the formats measure up at the cash register came in the form of Home Media Magazine's report of Nielsen VideoScan First Alert data, which showed that Blu-ray has sold 100 units to every 98.71 units of HD DVD since the inception of both formats. And in early February the site High-Def Digest also reported from VideoScan, which tracks the point-of-sale data from all video-distribution channels (brick-and-mortar and online); the results showed that in the first two weeks of January, Blu-ray discs outsold HD DVD by more than a 2:1 margin. (In that time period, 25 new Blu-ray titles shipped in January, compared with 11 titles on HD DVD.)

Much more recently, trade publication Video Businesscited industry sources in putting Blu-ray's margin at 2:1 for February too. According to Video Business, estimates show around 250,000 Blu-ray movies sold during February, compared with about 125,000 HD DVD movies. Total disc sales stand at 650,000 for HD DVD and 675,000 for Blu-ray.

The sales numbers even extend to one of the top-selling titles for both formats, Warner's The Departed. The Oscar-winning Scorsese film sold over 20,000 units on Blu-ray and 13,000 on HD DVD, according to Video Business's sources.

I'm wary of drawing conclusions based on these figures--numbers can be parsed in so many ways to tell different stories. But it's a telling trend that I'll be keeping a close eye on. The buying pattern appears to jibe with Sony's recent study, which shows that 90 percent of current PlayStation 3 owners have watched a Blu-ray movie, and that 80 percent of them plan to purchase a Blu-ray movie.

What a honest article! LOL


Read more:

Blu-ray, HD DVD: Which Movies Do You Want to Watch?
http://tech.msn.com/products/article...4704112&page=1