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Blu-ray outsells HD-DVD 2 to 1 in U.S for year's first nine months |
Listed in: PS3, Xbox 360 Tags: DreamWorks, gaming accessories, Reuters
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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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Here take my advise. Take a bath, brush your teeth and take up an outdoors hobby.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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?
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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
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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.
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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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