HD-DVD outselling Blu-ray – apparently

According to the North American HD-DVD Promotional Group, hardware sales have risen 37% in the first three months of the year while HD-DVD movie sales experienced a 20% 'increase in growth'. By contrast, Blu-ray hardware sales saw a 27% decline and software sales were down 5%. But, as usual, the facts seem slanted...

[tethered]

I stopped reading at:
"According to the North American HD-DVD Promotional Group"

I would do the same if it was the "North American Blu-ray Promotional Group"

[jonnyjd1]

...that pretty much sums it up...

...end of line...

[Vip3r]

Same here.

[vidoardes]

Agreed, we don't need any HD-DVD vs Blu-Ray stories. We certainly don't need ones postin biast information, pointless and certainly not news

[BenzMoney]

While I agree that any information released about a product by a group that openly states its affliation with that product needs to be taken with a huge dose of salt, I don't think it should be discounted entirely.

Read between the lines and try to sort through the fluff and the BS. Otherwise we should also be completely ignoring Sony or Nintendo or Microsoft when they release information because they're biased sources too, right?

Just don't take anything you read as gospel and be a critical thinker instead of ignoring everything. Choosing not to read something or hear people out just because you don't like to sound of their message is a big part of what's wrong with the world today. So long as it's a valid article (which this was) there should be no reason why it shouldn't be posted.

Now, will someone please pass the salt?

EDIT:

@marinelife9

Thanks for the LOL! hahaha... + bubble for you.

[marinelife9]

Benz I stopped reading your post as soon as I saw it was more than two lines long.

[nasim]

BD is outselling HD DVD 3:1 in NA
http://www.eproductwars.com...

6:1 in EU
http://www.eproductwars.com...

and 10:1 in JAPAN
http://www.eproductwars.com...

[ReconHope]

does all those wrong duplicate story reports, affect my crank?

[ReconHope]

want but this is not a duplicate story and is not spam. i should report you for spamming my story.

[actionjackson]

talking to yourself with post #2 and #3?

[cdzie1]

This is good for HD DVD, but it doesn't include the overall picture. This basically means that between Q1 and Q2, HD DVD grew its market share and Blu-ray lost some market share.

Still, HD DVD must find a way to offset PS3 sales, which are currently playing a big factor in the next-gen DVD race.

Isn’t it time for some moron to post “HD DVD is dead” again?

[xfrgtr]

Youre the moron for believing this story,HDDVD group is desperate,that's why they are not including the ps3,which is the big factor in this HD WAR.Bluray has been oustelling hddvd since dec 2006(movies sale and players including the PS3)
http://www.dvdempire.com/Co...

[cdzie1]

What about movies sales? HD DVD +20% and Blu-ray -5% ?

That has nothing to do with PS3 hardware.

[actionjackson]

What are your reports including. Becuase if the 5 free BR that come with the almost all BR players are factored, good luck to HD-DVD. Yes, they may not be direct sales, but they are flooding the market with BR disks. This would seriously impact the HD-DVD numbers. Oh, not to mention all but one studio that hasn't budged to the other side. HD-DVD is dead. Whether you hear it now or in a month from now, it won't make any difference.

[ArduousAndy]

if you count the 5 free for blu-ray you must count the 5 free for HD-dvd.

No spin just saying if you count one market it in total you must count the other market in total.

[Daxx]

Digital distribution is the future so I don't care about these formats at all. I didn't buy a HD-DVD or BluRay drive because both formats will be dead or not being used for movies in a couple of years.

[Rageanitus]

Digital distribution through the Inet infrastructure is far from taking over.

The inet does not have the enough bandwidth to push out 1080p content at great speeds. At the moment blu-ray and hddvd are the only ones that take full advantage of those 1080p monitors, and the 1080p monitors are slowly becoming standard.

[dale1]

the ps3 should be included in hardware sales as it is a multi purpose unit,its not an add on its a part of the overall system
i wish hddvd would stop banging on about standalone as the ps3 is exactly that no extras its there ready to use just as a dvd, the extras just makes it the best buy unit out there for people who like high def movies
my old man bought one on the sales person advice to go with his bravia tv he said pound for pound its the best out there
sh*t he might start playing r.o.m soon

[actionjackson]

Don't forget what consoles did for DVD. The playstation ade DVD popular. And because most people owned the PS1 and PS2, they had a
DVD player packaged right in the machine. Everytime a PS3 is sold, not to mention the standalones + the 5 free BR you get when buying a BR player, at the very least suggest that BR is really winning this battle.

[Wile]

...for two years before the PS2 launched. PS2 was aided by DVD not the other way around.

[Says you]

All the next Generation format but I dont believe that please I bet they keep talking about england so what about the rest of the world?.

[tk]

So they experienced growth. 20% increase would mean 5 sold instead of 4. 5% decline - so the BR now sells 10 instead of 11. That does not mean HD-DVD is outselling BR - just that they experienced more "growth".

Torture figures and they will confess to anything. HD-DVD lost. End it quick.

[Salvadore]

You have the North American HD-DVD Promotional Group saying one thing and then you have the Blu-Ray Promotional Group saying another thing.

[mikeslemonade]

This is actually a sign of HD-DVD is losing. It's just a despiration push of HD-DVD players going sub $200. How long can MS fund toshiba until it isn't worth it anymore? That's the question.

[ReBurn]

Increased sales is always a sign of failure. Sony's practically going out of business with the PS3 price change.

/sarcasm off

People take this stuff too seriously. I just wish that one format or the other would win because it sucks that there are movies you can get on one format that you can't get on the other.

[kiraevo]

OK, I'm done with this media war crap. I don't care who wins, but please, finish this war!!

[gman76]

Pr0n will be the deciding factor and I believe that will be BR. I remember reading that in another article and thought it was funny.

[Shaka2K6]

The HD-DVD Promotional Group says alot of thing.

' ' Pr0n will be the deciding factor ' '

Mmmm no, thats what internet is for duh!

[Mandangoof]

First of all, it's clearly slanted. Secondly, it doesn't mean BR is being outsold if it were true, just that HD-DVD gained some sympathy sales, still clocking in at only 1 copy sold to every 3 BR copies.

[Rageanitus]

I dont know but the shelf space for blu-ray used to be the same as hddvd. Now Im seeing 20-30 percent shelf space than hddvd. Just an observation.

On a side note hddvd ppl keep saying that hddvd is selling more stand alone units, which maybe be true for the time being but they often omit the ps3 as a blu-ray player.

[Rageanitus]

The top dvd's sold were from buena vista and some other studios, and they are pretty much blu-ray exclusive.

The internet is the main source for your pron needs

[junk56]

the hd market is less than 1% of actual videos. If we do eventually see a winner, it will obviously be bluray. But we wont see a winner for al ong time with piracy and DVDs being the top right now.

i'm expecting a winner by 2009 earliest, quote me on this

[Jdash24]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wik...

if you read the comparison you can see that the blu ray specs are clearly better i mean 50 gb of storage for blu ray and 30 gb for hd dvd

also.....LCD vs. Plasma?.....i vote LCD..........curious to see what you guys think