Posted by SP Goodman on 01/17/07 18:28

<asjbiotek@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> With regards to DVD title sales, here is the sales graph from
> amazon.com of HD-HDVD versus BLu-ray sales. HD-DVD had a major
> advantage at the beginning (since it started selling players much
> earlier), but you can see that Blu-ray is rising much more rapidly.
>
> http://www.eproductwars.com/dvd/graphs/salesrank-1-1-recent30.jpg
>
> In fact, BLu-ray has caught up already and will soon be much larger
> than it simply because a lot more titles will be released in Blu-ray
> than HD-DVD simply because there are 5 major studios NOT releasing any
> HD-DVD.
>
> So again, if you look at the trends, HD-DVD is going to lose, no
> questions about it.
>
>
> asjbiotek@gmail.com wrote:
>> SP Goodman wrote:
>> > This reads like a transcript from a Scientology pep rally! No facts
>> > and a
>> > lot of information left out, but lots of ENTHUSIASM! And EXCLAMATION
>> > POINTS!
>> >
>>
>> http://www.mybroadband.co.za/nephp/?m=show&id=5345
>>

It would appear that 'eproductwars' isn't entirely an 'ear to the industry',
but rather that of consumers. And there are several pretty graphs, without
numbers. In any event the charts-in-question only cover the past month.
Not exactly a market sample, is it?

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