90,000 HD DVD players sold in one weekend

90.000 HD DVD players sold in one weekend.

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By Henning Molbaek
FIRST ONLINE Nov 7, 2007

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This past weekend Wal-mart and Best Buy decided to lower the price of the second generation HD DVD player--the Toshiba HD-A2--to $98.

This helped move a lot of Toshiba HD DVD players. An estimated 90,000 units went over the counters to consumers in a single weekend.

By comparison, one of Blu-rays best-selling stand alone players, the Sony BDP-300, has shipped about 100,000 units since it launch in early June some five months ago.

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Wednesday, November 7, 2007

Member since:
August 2007

verrry niiice

Wednesday, November 7, 2007

JPSofCA

Member since:
May 2007

Darn near a tenth of a million! Not bad for one weekend.

[Post edited by JPSofCA on Nov 7, 2007]

Wednesday, November 7, 2007

dguisinger

Member since:
November 2007

good news, good news indeed. I also have a hard time imagining the HD-A3 price staying at $199 for long. I bet we see it at $150 by the end of the year and we already know the chinese brand (what is it, Venturer?) will be sub-$200 this christmas as well. With all the free movies and rebates floating around, its hard to see BluRay having a good quarter in comparison.

Wednesday, November 7, 2007

Member since:
March 2002

Ok, not bad, but we need at least one more thread on selling the A2 for under $100. I just don't know how this site will function without at least three or four threads on the same topic. Ok then, which fanboy would like to go start it?

Wednesday, November 7, 2007

BluCanada

Member since:
November 2007

Hey Tim,
I'll chime in. What do you think those 90,000 units added up to in losses?
I personally think that if anything it will equate to more disc sales in q1 2008 as many of those players will be under the tree.

Wednesday, November 7, 2007

kucoloco

Member since:
September 2007

Remember Sexy-Tim. the thread gets started once some one replys to the story.

now.. yes. that dont mean your little pals wont create another one. maybe they dont like this one.