Following the link to High-Def Digest, and following their link to their story about hardware sales figures, you get these stats for 2006
1 million PS3s "on the market" 175,000 HD DVD players sold 28 DVDs sold for every HD DVD player
So that's a total of 28*175,000 = 4.9 million HD DVDs sold.
If Blu-Ray sales to date are now at 92.4% of HD DVD sales, then that's over 4.5 million. If a million PS3s have been sold, then that's an average of 4-5 DVDs per PS3.
That's probably partly because people haven't had PS3s as long as HD DVDs have been out there, and partly because lots of PS3 owners bought their consoles primarily for playing games. Whereas anyone prepared to be an HD DVD early adopter must be a bit of a film fanatic.
So you wouldn't expect PS3 owners on average to buy as many DVDs as people who've bought a dedicated DVD player - but surely at only 4 or 5 DVDs at the moment, there's still a lot of room for growth. And with over 5 times as many PS3s out there, that looks good for Blu-Ray.
I'm still not ready to commit my cash to either format though. If I could get a cheaper BD player (I don't want a PS3) and if Universal started producing Blu-Ray DVDs, I'd probably change my mind.
And with HD/BD DVDs in total still less than 1% of total DVDs sold, I'll be sticking with the real winner in the format war for a while yet.
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Stephen @ Feb 1st 2007 3:25PM
Following the link to High-Def Digest, and following their link to their story about hardware sales figures, you get these stats for 2006
1 million PS3s "on the market"
175,000 HD DVD players sold
28 DVDs sold for every HD DVD player
So that's a total of 28*175,000 = 4.9 million HD DVDs sold.
If Blu-Ray sales to date are now at 92.4% of HD DVD sales, then that's over 4.5 million. If a million PS3s have been sold, then that's an average of 4-5 DVDs per PS3.
That's probably partly because people haven't had PS3s as long as HD DVDs have been out there, and partly because lots of PS3 owners bought their consoles primarily for playing games. Whereas anyone prepared to be an HD DVD early adopter must be a bit of a film fanatic.
So you wouldn't expect PS3 owners on average to buy as many DVDs as people who've bought a dedicated DVD player - but surely at only 4 or 5 DVDs at the moment, there's still a lot of room for growth. And with over 5 times as many PS3s out there, that looks good for Blu-Ray.
I'm still not ready to commit my cash to either format though. If I could get a cheaper BD player (I don't want a PS3) and if Universal started producing Blu-Ray DVDs, I'd probably change my mind.
And with HD/BD DVDs in total still less than 1% of total DVDs sold, I'll be sticking with the real winner in the format war for a while yet.
Jason @ Feb 1st 2007 4:01PM
I think that means 28 regular DVDs, not HD-DVDs. I would seriously doubt that the average HD-DVD drive owner has 28 HD-DVDs.