Blu-ray Standalone Players Outsold HD DVD Each Week After Black Friday

Sony Corp. chief Howard Stringer reversed his previous description of the high-def format war as "at a stalemate" in light of Warner Bros.' abandonment of the HD DVD format, and cheered what he now sees as a Blu-ray victory.

Stringer closed Sony's Sunday press conference on the eve of the Consumer Electronics Show here by saying "All of us at Sony are feeling Blu. But that is a good feeling. We thank Warner to release only in Blu-ray."

The HD DVD format has shown pluck, with sales of its set-tops-particularly Toshiba players-topping sales during the holiday season's Black Friday week. But BD set-tops surged during December, overtaking HD DVD players, Sony VP Chris Fawcett told VB after the press conference.

"Every week after Black Friday, BD set-tops collectively beat Toshiba players," he said. "During the week leading up to Christmas, BD set-tops were 67% of market share unit sales and Sony was 50% of that."

[TANOD]

OMG

even at 99$ Toshiba standalone players couldnt beat BD standalone players?

EPIC info

[Shaka2K6]

You mean those '' HD players'' that cant even do TrueHD 1080p ???

lmao !!!!! toshi thosi...

[mikeslemonade]

Now no more of those articles that seperate stand alone players and PS3 players. Atleast those articles will hold less weight that ever now.

[sonarus]

So what did hd-dvd have on its side. Blu ray sold more players with ps3 and apparently still sold more without. Blu ray sells more hd discs so what does hd-dvd have? I think i'm gonna check amazon for some blu ray movies to purchase. Been wanting to get dreamgirls(yes questionable choice but its a pretty solid musical) hopefully v for vendetta comes out on blu ray soon thats the one i really wanna get.

[TANOD]

BUT BD has everything

I am still anticipating the 100 gig BD disc from HITACHI.

when is HITACHi's CES keynote

[gamesR4fun]

now if only toshiba would stop flogging that dead horse...

[Tsukasah]

What will HD-DVD backers have to their defense now? Other than the whole Paramount thing I think HD-DVD is boned. Lets wait and see if Paramount can back outta this one. And why is Universal exclusive to HDDVD? Is it contract or pure idiotic choice?

[neogeo]

HD-DVD will still win this war.
by next year bluray will be long dead, and I will flame anyone that does not agree with me.

[XXXRATED]

YOUR A F&*kING DUMB A$$ BIT&* ARE YOU SERIOUS DID YOU HIT YOUR HEAD OR SOMETHING WAKE UP AND QUIT SU&*ING BILL GATES D*(K

[RudeSole Devil]

Let me help you

[KeMoBLUE]

neogeo im SO sorry your mom dropped you on your head when you were a ababy but that was this morning and this is now you idiot.

[MEGANE]

@5.2 omfg that was so fcking funny!!....im seting this pic as my wallpaper....bubles 4u.....lol. wait..DID U GET THE MEMO...LOL..HAHAHAAAAAAAAAA... oh man im crying ..................can i return this!....lol hahahah

[roybatty]

THANKS MANG.

[tatotiburon]

yes yes we knew it and got i, BR won the war...please no more format news unless a new movie is coming out or something like that....THE WAR IS OVER, GET OVER IT!!

[crazy25000]

that to hd dvd supporters lol

[bootsielon]

neogeo is gonna flame you if you declare HD-DVD dead, so you should stop mocking HD-DVD now, otherwise who knows what strange things might happen to you if you're flamed by him...

[LightningPS3]

now we're just pissing on HD DVD's grave.

[DarkSniper]

HD-DVD had no chance when they announced they would be in cahoots with Microsoft.

$niper

[Prismo_Fillusion]

Wow this in unbelievable if true.
But if I were to spend $300+ on a Blu-ray player...I'd just buy a PS3.
:p

[PirateThom]

HD-DVDOA

[Imallvol7]

its like blu ray - 100000000 . . . . hd-dvd - 0

there is so much overwhelming evidence, just stop the madness. blu ray won.

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[mavent]

go to bed, you're obviously up past your bed time

[MEGANE]

if bluray wins u r going to see millions of PS3

[mesh1]

becuase they are ps3 trolls that why they approve this and all ps3 news 360 is owning ps3 sales by 200k according to npd which they stopped posting know the ps3 trolls worship vgcharts which they 1s hated haha what tools

[IntelligentAj]

Correct me if i'm wrong but what section is this under? Is it not industry. Given the format that the next gen games are on is this not relevant(though extremely saturated as of late)news?

[DJ]

No wonder Warner ditched 'em. $399 BD players outsold $99~199 HD-DVD players? Pshhh.

[bootsielon]

This is news for gamers, not "news about gaming". News 4 gamers are news that are in gamers' interest, such as news about technology and movies. Besides, this IS related "in any way ,shape, or form" to video games, as BLU-RAY is a fundamental part of the PS3, and HD-DVD was an add-on to the 360. Considering that you're an Xbot (everyone knows), I didn't expect more from you.

[stennexxx]

SONY REALLY STARTING THE YEAR WITH A BANG. NOT ONLY DID WB SAY THE DIG BLU BUT NOW BLU-RAY BURNERS ARE COMING OUT FOR $200 ND UP. DELL AND OTHER PC COMPANIES WILL BE RELEASING THEIR MODELS WITH BLU-RAY DRIVES AS WELL. YIPPPEEEEE.

[pixelsword]

... Boo, hoo, hoo; my pu$$y hurts!

[tk]

And there was none. Not a single way to spin the statistics. Well - maybe one still left...

HD-DVD outsold rest of market in the console add-on category. (And then disregard that all PS3's come with build in BR drive). It is the one category - until MS releases the BR add on for the XB360 where they can pretend to be leading any category.

Software titles - BR Check
Standalone players - BR Check
Total players - BR Check
Drives / Burners in PC's - BR Check
Support from studion - BR Check

There is nothing left... they lost every category...

[neogeo]

a new type of VCR tape I'm making will catch on fast and win the format war.

[rushbd]

All those who support HDDVD is now turning into a N4G Quality assurance officer