HD-DVD Reaches 100,000 Hardware Units Sold in North America.

I got the BDSP1 for Christmas, and it's a nice standalone unit, but the PS3 offers everything it does, except for IR remotes.

 

Every Blu-Ray player is upgradble through internet updates. It's why those Pioneer and Sony units have network connections. PS3 offers same video quality, same sound quality, everything else can be fixed through updates.

TekkenMaster606

 Not really. PS3 is missing 95% of the jacks I need. HDMI and optical out wont cut it for me or anyone, if I want a movie stand-alone player. 

Hey what are these numbers

Here are the distribution rights for the Major Studios according to IMDB:

Blu-Ray Exclusives
Film Company Number of Films in distributor filmography
Columbia Tri-Star 307 MGM (Post-1986) 336 Sony Pictures 405 Disney 603
20th Century Fox 723 Lions Gate 479 Miramax 553 Touchstone 224 Buena Vista 763
Total 4390

HD DVD Exclusives
Film Company Number of Films in distributor filmography
Universal 5254 NBC 3886 Focus 83 Weinstein Co. 111 Dimension 135
Total 9496

:lol: :lol:

Hey what are these numbers

Here are the distribution rights for the Major Studios according to IMDB:

Blu-Ray Exclusives
Film Company Number of Films in distributor filmography
Columbia Tri-Star 307 MGM (Post-1986) 336 Sony Pictures 405 Disney 603
20th Century Fox 723 Lions Gate 479 Miramax 553 Touchstone 224 Buena Vista 763
Total 4390

HD DVD Exclusives
Film Company Number of Films in distributor filmography
Universal 5254 NBC 3886 Focus 83 Weinstein Co. 111 Dimension 135
Total 9496

:lol: :lol:

-DarthVader-

[QUOTE="-DarthVader-"]

Hey what are these numbers

Here are the distribution rights for the Major Studios according to IMDB:

Blu-Ray Exclusives
Film Company Number of Films in distributor filmography
Columbia Tri-Star 307 MGM (Post-1986) 336 Sony Pictures 405 Disney 603
20th Century Fox 723 Lions Gate 479 Miramax 553 Touchstone 224 Buena Vista 763
Total 4390

HD DVD Exclusives
Film Company Number of Films in distributor filmography
Universal 5254 NBC 3886 Focus 83 Weinstein Co. 111 Dimension 135
Total 9496

:lol: :lol:

pimperjones

took me 10 seconds to cut & paste it in this useless thread.  

[QUOTE="DS_fan_atic"]this competition only alienates the consumer and until there is one format, I refuse to be apart of it...except on forums...DoctorBunny

Same here. I am just hoping for them to merge. HD-DVD has so many qualities over bluray, but bluray has more studio support since it has the ps3 as a "userbase", whether they use it or not. Also Sony is an amazing movie studio too.

HD-DVD definitely has many qualities over Blu-Ray. HD-DVD has less storage space, lower bit rates, and less studio support. HD-DVD FTW!

Beats Blu-ray...if you don't count the PlayStation 3. by Gerry Block

April 17, 2007 - The North American HD-DVD Promotional Group announced today that the sales of dedicated HD-DVD playing hardware have surpassed the 100,000 units mark. This figure does not represent HD-DVD PC-drives or the Xbox 360 add-on drive. Weighted against dedicated Blu-ray hardware sales (that do not include the PlayStation 3), the HD-DVD camp now claims a larger hardware installation base and the honor of reaching the 100,000 unit mark first.

Looking forward, the HD-DVD camp expects Toshiba's recent price drops on HD-DVD players to bear fruit at retail. Now that the hardware has fallen below the $400 mark, retailers and consumers are expected to react well to a lower barrier of entry. Coupled with the release of major properties like The Complete Matrix Trilogy in May, the HD-DVD group is optimistic for future growth and adoption of the format.

From an editorial perspective, the fact that HD-DVD hardware has only recently broken the 100,000 unit mark in North America after almost a year of availability denotes a relatively lagging overall consumer adoption of the technology. The ongoing format war is obviously doing nothing to benefit consumer confidence or willingness to make a commitment to either Blu-ray or HD-DVD.

Comparing the 100,000 figure to the PlayStation 3 is also interesting. Exact numbers on PlayStation 3 sales in North America are hard to come by, but based upon some extrapolation it can be deduced that there are certainly more than a million PS3 units in homes. As such, Blu-ray's recent lead over HD-DVD in movie-title sales can be attributed in large part to the PS3. Many involved in the HD-DVD camp have discounted the impact the PS3 will have on the market, citing the fact that PS3 owners are likely to be far more interested in playing games, rather than movies, on the console. At the moment this seems not to be the case, but should Blu-ray movie sales fall into decline as the PS3's game library fills out, the HD-DVD camp may eventually be proven correct.

Stay tuned for the Blu-ray camp's obligatory counter-press release.

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REALLY WHO CARES!  

Look this is a dumb arguement, the truth is the point of selling stand alone players is to sell MOVIES right???? Yet with HD DVDs "victory" of stand alone players sales their movies have been outsold by a huge margin since the launch of the PS3.  And people still argue that nobody with a PS3 uses it for Blu ray movies, are you kidding????  I guess its just a small number of blu ray stand alone owners buying the same movie over and over again to get sales up to the point that Blu ray movies outsell HD DVD 9:1.

Open your yours fanboys top 25 HD movie sales:

1) "The Departed" Blu-ray
2) "Casino Royale" Blu-ray
3) "The Departed" HD-DVD
4) "The Prestige" Blu-ray
5) "Crank" Blu-ray
6) "Saw 3" Blu-ray
7) "Superman Returns" Blu-ray
"Batman Begins" HD-DVD
9) "Black Hawk Down" Blu-ray
10) "Underworld Evolution" Blu-ray
11) "The Fifth Element" Blu-ray
12) "X-Men: The Last Stand" Blu-ray
13) "Talladega Nights" Blu-ray
14) "The Guardian" Blu-ray
15) "Open Season" Blu-ray
16) "Ice Age: The Meltdown" Blu-ray
17) "Babel" Blu-ray
1 "Flyboys" Blu-ray
19) "House of Flying Daggers" Blu-ray
20) "Mission Impossible" 3-pack Blu-ray
21) "Click" Blu-ray"
22) "The Terminator" Blu-ray
23) "The Covenant" Blu-ray
24) Gridiron Gang" Blu-ray
25) "Kingdom of Heaven" Director's Cut Blu-ray

See the trend and with more PS3s being put in housholds and Blu ray owning more movie studios it very hard to see how HD DVD can turn this around.  You see HD DVD players are in the thousands while blu ray players with PS3s are in the millions and the sales show this with blu ray dominating. 

[QUOTE="pimperjones"][QUOTE="-DarthVader-"]

Hey what are these numbers

Here are the distribution rights for the Major Studios according to IMDB:

Blu-Ray Exclusives
Film Company Number of Films in distributor filmography
Columbia Tri-Star 307 MGM (Post-1986) 336 Sony Pictures 405 Disney 603
20th Century Fox 723 Lions Gate 479 Miramax 553 Touchstone 224 Buena Vista 763
Total 4390

HD DVD Exclusives
Film Company Number of Films in distributor filmography
Universal 5254 NBC 3886 Focus 83 Weinstein Co. 111 Dimension 135
Total 9496

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-DarthVader-

took me 10 seconds to cut & paste it in this useless thread.

The real numbers should be roughly

BluRay = 5000 titles - (Plus 700 United Artist)

Hd DVD = 2000 titles - (Minus 4700 Universal since 1980, minus 3000 NBC because TV isn't film)

It's very biased to count all of Universal's library since 1920 and only count MGM after 1986, MGM has 3000+ United Artist has 1900+ since 1920 those numbers alone kill HD DVDs.