Posted by Doug Jacobs on 06/08/07 21:52

In alt.video.dvd Lloyd Parsons <lloydparsons@mac.com> wrote:

> > And even though HD video sales slowly increase, they still only make up
> > what, 1%, compared to what DVD is still doing.
> >
> You have to excuse the BluRay fanboys, they do get carried away
> sometimes. Right now you have two competing formats that essentially
> look and sound the same, fighting over a tiny marketshare and trying to
> figure out what it takes to make it all fly off the shelves.

Which is why the whole thing is pointless. Worse still, you have the PS3
fanboys clamoring for something positive to say about their $600 purchase,
and then end up talking about Blu-Ray movies and Folding@Home.

> Neither has figured it out yet.

Heh...

> The Matrix set sold quite well considering it was about $80 or more for
> the disks. In sales of disks, BluRay vs HDDVD is about 52:48 or
> somewhere thereabouts. Shows that neither are doing as well as some had
> hoped.

Just looked on Amazon. Yikes!

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It's not broken. It's...advanced.

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