Posted by asjbiotek on 01/22/07 22:39

Btw, the fact that there are already more Blu-ray titles now than HDDVD
titles even though HDDVD was available much earlier than Blu-ray means
that the growth rate of Blu-ray disc titles is much much faster than
the growth of HDDVD, which means this ratio of blu-ray to HDDVD titles
will get much worse very fast.

asjbiotek@gmail.com wrote:
> Well, here's more proof the end for HD-DVD is fast approaching.
>
> In addition to amazon.com, other sales channels are reporting much
> stronger blu-ray sales, even though HD-DVD got out first in 2006.
>
> http://www.videobusiness.com/index.asp?layout=article&articleid=CA6408142
>
> for online retailer DVDEmpire:
>
> 1. Sales of Blu-ray discs are now stronger than sales of HD-DVD titles.
> For the week including Tuesday, Jan. 16, DVDEmpire.com noted that 57.7%
> of its high-def sales were BD and 42.3% were HD DVD.
>
> 2. there are already more titles in Blu-ray than HD-DVD....Through Jan.
> 16, DVDEmpire.com counted 190 HD DVD releases and 203 BD releases.
>
> And it'll just get worse as more people buy playstation and more
> blu-ray titles come out. Just this week, i already got the recent Ice
> Age 2 in blu-ray (and it's 20th century fox, so NO HD-DVD copy!)

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