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Blu-ray outsells HD-DVD 2 to 1 in U.S for year's first nine months

Posted Oct 25, 2007 at 6:20AM EST by Karl B.

Listed in: PS3, Xbox 360 Tags: DreamWorks, gaming accessories, Reuters

Sales data from Home Media Research has Blu-ray outselling rival format HD-DVD by almost 2 to 1 in the first nine months of the year. This according to reports from Reuters.

Blu-ray reportedly posted total U.S. sales of 2.6 million units from January 1 until September 30. HD-DVD, on the other hand, had a total of 1.4 million discs sold. Earlier this month, we reported that Blu-ray also posted a 4 to 1 lead over HD-DVD in Europe.

Analysts expect a different scenario in the fourth quarter, however. In-Stat analyst Gerry Kaufhold believes that newly-released HD-DVD titles with new Web-enabled features such as Paramount's Transformers will revitalize the HD-DVD camp in the fourth quarter.

Adams Media Research president Tom Adams also pointed towards Paramount and DreamWorks' 18-month HD-DVD exclusivity as a factor that "very much strengthens HD-DVD's hand in the fourth quarter". Adams, however, believes that Blu-ray will still take the lead for the year overall.

Via Reuters

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yahoo now my plan on being the biggest sony fan is complete and kids will no longer give me swirlies because I pwn a ps3 and have l33t forum skills. GET A LIFE PEOPLE. Why do any of you give a flying flip which one does better? Do any of you kiddies have stock invested in sony other than the measly 500+ bucks you put into the system??? Very very doubtful..

Here take my advise. Take a bath, brush your teeth and take up an outdoors hobby.

# . — nllx 2007-10-25 10:11

Go trojan horse!

# ... — ~~ 2007-10-25 10:47

Please do tell me, what has moved you to go and spread this message of salvation to us lowly internet dwellers ?

# What the heck is HDDVD — Oracle 2007-10-25 10:58

Never heard of it before

# meh — JelloBiafra 2007-10-25 11:57

this really means very little, both are selling at a dismal rate, just one worse then the other. Really the war will never end, had just one format come out instead of two, it would have probably failed as well. People just dont understand HD media, at least not well enough to spend the cash on disc players. Both formats will co-exist till something bigger catches on, that said looking at the titles available on both formats hd-dvd has a slight edge(just an opinion).

# hmm — McAwesome 2007-10-25 12:04

I think they are used for drink coasters, but I'm unsure myself.

# LOL — logicbomb.de 2007-10-25 14:00

When has Sony every succeeded pushing a proprietary media format into world wide consumer acceptance?

let's see,

BetaMax -- fail

Mindisc/HDminidisc --uh, no

UMD - you decide

Read about BD-J versus HDi, and tell me which option looks more promising for a content developer.

just wait and see

# ;o — rawrskies 2007-10-25 14:28

Who said people here don't already do so ? They probably just have much more time to waste than you.

# Did you forget cd's? — kaliraver69 2007-10-25 16:56

They are the most popular format till this day for music. It was co developed by Philips + Sony! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compact_disc

# . — teh not so 1337 g@m3r 2007-10-25 17:03

LMAO!!! NO.

Philips made the CD and Sony jumped in, did ***** all except add better protection against scratches, and claimed they did something.

Sony formats + fail.

Oh, and don't forget MS/MSD/MSP/MSPD: Only used in Sony products while everything elses uses SD.

Not to mention the Memory stick was co-created by SanDisk.

Sony has always needed someone's leg to hump in order for their format to succeed.

# No — Techni 2007-10-25 20:15

Sony did CD, DVD and 3.5 inch floppies.

And memory stick is used by over 650 companies http://www.memorystick.com/en/companies/index.html

"Not to mention the Memory stick was co-created by SanDisk"

Then why are you complaining that Sony co-created CD? Hypocrite.

Minidisc was very successfull in asia. Betamax was very successfull in the media.

BD-J looks more promising, as it's a full programming language, HDi is a limited scripting language. BD-J can run emulators for example, HDi can make DVD-like games.

# ... — logicbomb.de 2007-10-26 05:16

BD-J (in its current state) is hardly a match for HDi at the moment.

from wikipedia "The flexibility of having a full programming environment available on every Blu-ray Disc player provides developers with an extremely flexible platform for creating innovative new content types not bound by the restrictions of content platforms based on rigid mark-up based specifications. Conversely, the lack of high-level features like an XML parser or HTTP client make it much more difficult to quickly and easily write applications."

from Hi-Def Digest "Currently, most Blu-ray players on the market can handle some form of BD-J interactivity on software titles, but not true video picture-in-picture playback. Sony's complete Blu-ray player line (including the PlayStation 3), plus decks from Philips, Pioneer and LG Electronics, have so far been unable to support the PIP function."

Sony is now requiring all forthcoming player to have full BD-J support, but for now, they aren't living up to the full potential of the format.

PS3 could possibly become fully compliant to the standard via firmware upgrade - but that only a wild guess on my part.

I don't know about everyone else, but the ability to play glorified cell phone java games on a disc player doesn't seem very appealing to me.

Emulators? I have an xbox with over 70 gigs of classics on it, why would I want to play Missile Command with a DVD remote?

# . — logicbomb.de 2007-10-26 06:28

The real question is, which format will maximize it feature set so that consumers see it as a "must have" device.

PS2 stomped all over the original Xbox despite having a slower cpu, half the available RAM, a weaker GPU, and no dedicated online gaming service but still managed to win out of the technically superior xbox due to a better implementation with the available resources.

Bigger guns don't won't ever win the war if the weapons are handled poorly.

only time will tell

# its all about the quantity of HD TVs that are around — na2rul 2007-10-26 11:30

IMO its definitly increasin so therefore WHEN HD players become cheaper, ppl will decide its about time to unleash their TVs capabilities

# ps2 trounced xbox for 2 reason — JelloBiafra 2007-10-26 11:43

1. It had the year head start..it actually make quite a difference as the 360-ps3 fight proves.

2. 3rd party support, soo many companys made games for the ps2 it wasnt even funny, albeit most of them were pretty sub par.

Really if you wanna hand the victory to the company that just maximizes its capability, then hd-dvd is the clear winner. As of right now Hd-dvd discs are supporting feature that as of yet arent being used on BD. The "only time will tell" line has been being used for what seems like forever now, well the time is now and its showing there both complete failures. Unless a 3rdparty company can come out with a hd/bd combo player for an affordable price, or unless either hd/bd gives in...the formats are going to continue to sell really poorly.

# but wait — Act II 2007-10-26 15:44

arent they those new dog chew toys?

# nat2rul is spot on — Aces In The Palm 2007-10-26 16:39

people arent stupid

its not that people dont understand it

its simply that they dont see HD as a necessity

epsecially for the price you pay

when it comes cheaper, more people will buy it

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