Posted by SP Goodman on 01/17/07 18:41

And the more you repeat it, it still doesn't become true. Even for you.

<asjbiotek@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:1169059176.138338.292370@11g2000cwr.googlegroups.com...
> Yeah, but it's the most recent month....
>
> here's the thing about it...setting aside all the hype, and looking at
> long term trends as opposed to short term news hypes, HD-DVD simply
> does not have the muscle to compete against Blue-ray, and that graph is
> already starting to show that (notice how FLAT HD-DVD sales seem to
> be)....
>
> people here keep pointing out Sony, but completely forget that BLU-RAY
> IS MADE UP OF SOME OF THE BIGGEST COMPANIES IN THE WORLD (many bigger
> than Microsoft). These guys can afford to have short-term downsides,
> because they can see that in the long term, they'll simply overwhelm
> HD-DVD with the number of titles and players out there.
>
> So, when they say, the game is over, they're not talking about today,
> they're talking in the same way a chess player knows that his opponent
> is already beaten even before other people may see it because they
> focus only on the short term.
>
>
> SP Goodman wrote:
>> <asjbiotek@gmail.com> wrote in message
>> news:1169055879.811124.313750@51g2000cwl.googlegroups.com...
>> > 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?
>>
>> Next!
>>
>>
>> --
>> Stephen Goodman
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