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Posted by JoJo#1MSFanboy on 01/27/07 10:03
In article <1169883491.210403.183810@s48g2000cws.googlegroups.com>,
asjbiotek@gmail.com says...
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>Blu-ray sales continues to expand its lead on hd-dvd on almost a
>weekly basis. The fact that Blu-ray dated releases outnumber Hd-dvd by
>a wide margin in the future, and that europe will soon join in the
>Blu-ray fray probably means big trouble for hd-dvd.
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>Plus, i started noticing unsold hd-dvd titles are starting to pile up
>in best buy (ie, each title has multiple copies on the shelves),
>whereas manyBD titles have only 1 or 2 copies left on the shelves (e.g.
>i got the one and only Ice Age 2 copy at a northern Nj best buy)....
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>DVDEmpire Blu-ray vs hd-dvd sales:
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>For the week ending Wed Jan 3rd
>HD DVD 44.50%
>Blu-ray 55.50%
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>For the week ending Wed Jan 10th
>HD DVD 42.16%
>Blu-ray 57.84%
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>For the week ending Wed Jan 17th
>HD DVD 42.30%
>Blu-ray 57.70%
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>For the week ending Wed Jan 24th
>HD DVD 39.01%
>Blu-ray 60.99%
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>Current:
>HD DVD Blu-ray
>36.35% 63.65%
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>http://forum.blu-ray.com/showthread.php?p=46399
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>On Jan 22, 5:27 pm, asjbio...@gmail.com wrote:
>> Well, here's more proof the end for HD-DVD is fast approaching.
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>> In addition to amazon.com, other sales channels are reporting much
>> stronger blu-ray sales, even though HD-DVD got out first in 2006.
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>> http://www.videobusiness.com/index.asp?layout=article&articleid=CA640...
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>> for online retailer DVDEmpire:
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>> 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.
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>> 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.
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>> 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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Blu-Ray is spiking right now because of the PS3 release. If PS3 demand doesn't
stay high than Blu-Ray sales numbers will come down.
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