Posted by asj on 06/09/06 16:22

asj wrote:
> Joshua Zyber wrote:
> > HD DVD players are still selling out the moment they hit store shops,
> > unable to keep up with demand, and owners are overwhelmingly satisfied.
> > Meanwhile, Blu-Ray can't even get their low-capacity single-layer discs
> > to function with any reliability, much less their mythical dual-layer
> > discs. The format's launch date keeps getting pushed back further and
> > further into irrelevance.
>
> Uh, yeah, right ....very low volumes methinks...
>
> HD DVD sales sluggish
> http://www.videobusiness.com/article/CA6332298.html
>

as in everything, it's the content that matters, not the hardware, and
as studios note how slow HD DVD sales are, the few studios opting for
Toshiba will rethink their options. The one holdout night decide to
offer blu-ray titles too, and there is less pressure on the 5 blu-ray
only studios to go HD DVD.

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