Re: HD DVD camp issues press release

Falcon01,

All of the non-red pie pieces are Blu-ray. That means that a majority of the chart is Blu-ray.

Funstuff, one piece of the pie is LG (combo players) and another listed as Other can be Venturer (HD DVD), and other manufacturers for both formats. This still means HD DVD has a bigger slice of the pie. What are you seeing?

My wife works at a metro-Boston big box retailer... Blue Ray players have sat in backstock forever... Never sold a single one. The movies take up more floor space, but again - she says they rarely sell.

Wait a second, Blu-Ray didn't outsell HD Players, that report showed sales of HD Players by manufacturer but don't forget that Toshiba wasn't the only one selling HD Players as there was one other manufacturer and a dual format manufacturer... Basically .7 of 1% was probably sold by Venturer and every one of the 500,000 Add-ons for the 360 are guaranteed to be for movies.

Note that the Venturer is probably covered in the "All Other" Maroon Category and that looks like 3-5% of the pie as well.

[Post edited by elterrible on Jan 7, 2008]

Funstuff72, the $100 player was sold out pre thanksgiving and at 1,000,000 Million players sold being 49.3% I would say that the $100 sale would significantly tip the scales in favor of HD-DVD by more than 5%.

funstuff72 posts in a very familiar matter. anyhow.. guys I dont know it looks pretty ugly with barely any movies.

did any of you read the news of Bill Gates not even referring to HD-DVD in his demo at CES today.

Yes Tizflizz we did and Gates basically threw both formats under the bus. I still think the HD Players will hit $100 to increase sales which will put them over the top.

Pete

CES might not be the right place for the HD DVD camp to start a war of words. You might see something after the convention if Toshiba is able to get off their duff and show a little aggressiveness. But then again, given their wimpy track record up to now, who knows. I would hate to think that they will allow themselves to quietly whither away. It certainly would be a diservice to their supporters.

I may be way off the ball here but I think if HD DVD is still around next year you will see some studios go neutral, maybe even Warner. If it doesn't die and people still supprt it with sales the studios can't keep ignoring it. Seriously, if HD DVD survives another year after all this then why not? In the end there may just be two formats after all. Then again maybe someone will throw in the towel. Who knows. I'm just throwing it out there.

I can't wait to read the responses to this one

[Post edited by Falcon01 on Jan 7, 2008]