Posted by Lloyd Parsons on 06/18/07 17:21

In article <1182185122.161833.130930@p77g2000hsh.googlegroups.com>,
asjbiotek@gmail.com wrote:

> Lloyd Parsons wrote:
> > How do you figure 32%, I come up with 18%
> >
> > Frankly, unless Blockbuster does better with their stores that are going
> > to offer BluRay than they are doing with their online service, it isn't
> > going to make much of a blip in the market.
> >
> > So while this isn't a good thing for the HDDVD camp, it is far from
> > being a disastrous blow.
>
> Wikipedia has nationwide stores at 5800 as of 2004, so 1700 stores
> would be about 30%
>
> Before this I was thinking the format war might last until late next
> year, but now i think hd-dvd is heading towards obscurity faster than
> i thought.
>
> * Having lunch while posting on opera mini j2me browser. Hmmmm
> delicious!

Blockbuster currently has more than 8000 stores.

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