Posted by JoJo#1MSFanboy on 02/05/07 06:48

In article <1170650399.091787.129340@v45g2000cwv.googlegroups.com>,
asjbiotek@gmail.com says...
>
>On Feb 4, 4:30 pm, J...@yahoo.com (JoJo#1MSFanboy) wrote:
>> LMAO!!! All those hundreds of millions of dollars Sony has been dumping
into
>> the pimping of Blu-Ray and they can only match the sales of HD-DVD? I
wonder
>> how long it will be before those 5 studios jump on HD-DVD.
>
>This about one of the most stupid posts i've read in a while. Please
>note that Sony is only 1 of several STAND-ALONE blu-ray player
>manufacturers. The others include samsung, panasonic, philips...
>
>HD-DVD players and titles came out of the gate earlier than Blu-ray,
>and the main argument by Hd-DVD supprters was that HD-DVD would win
>handily in player sales because (1) there were more hd-dvd titles; (2)
>Toshiba was basically losing money on every Hd-dvd player it sold at
>about HALF the price of the competing blu-ray players from samsung,
>philips, panasonic etc.
>
>And yet, we now have numbers that show that the much higher prices
>(and the late start of blu-ray) did not seem to bother sales of stand-
>alone blu-ray players at all in 2006!
>
>I would say that's really bad news for hd-dvd, especially now when blu-
>ray is starting to overwhelm hd-dvd in terms of numbers of title
>releases AND total players (because of the PS3)
>
>It's pretty much all the way downhill for hd-dvd from now on....
>
Nope.... all the money dumped into pimping Blu-Ray and HD-DVD is holding its
own. Two reasons.... lower price and better quality...get over it.

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