http://www.engadgethd.com/2007/07/07/retailers-seek-to-promote-hd-dvd-blu-ray-titles-equally/ Engadget HD Comments for http://www.engadgethd.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadgethd.com en-us Copyright 2009 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadgethd.com/2007/07/07/retailers-seek-to-promote-hd-dvd-blu-ray-titles-equally/http://www.engadgethd.com/2007/07/07/retailers-seek-to-promote-hd-dvd-blu-ray-titles-equally/Jul 7th 2007 1:02PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2007/07/07/retailers-seek-to-promote-hd-dvd-blu-ray-titles-equally/http://www.engadgethd.com/2007/07/07/retailers-seek-to-promote-hd-dvd-blu-ray-titles-equally/Jul 7th 2007 1:04PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2007/07/07/retailers-seek-to-promote-hd-dvd-blu-ray-titles-equally/http://www.engadgethd.com/2007/07/07/retailers-seek-to-promote-hd-dvd-blu-ray-titles-equally/
The body of the article seems to be slightly different than the title and your description doesn't reflect it

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“Blu-ray looks to be clearly the winner,” Marmaduke said. “We’re not optimistic [about sales] until there’s one format. I think it could happen by first quarter of 2008.”

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But starting to exclude one format now risks “infuriating consumers,” said Saunt. “You might get burned, and retail bears the brunt of it.”

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Did YOU read the article?? The article mentions 8 retailers specifically and possibly more when using the word "others". All are splitting shelf space and not travelling down Blockbuster Ave. by choosing one format over the other and thus alienating customers in the process.

You zero in on the next to last sentence and a single quote that is presented as an opposite view to the article. It involves Hastings entertainment (who? how far did they have to did to find them??) and their decision to go BluRay only.

Good try, but you are not even close.]]>Jul 7th 2007 3:13PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2007/07/07/retailers-seek-to-promote-hd-dvd-blu-ray-titles-equally/http://www.engadgethd.com/2007/07/07/retailers-seek-to-promote-hd-dvd-blu-ray-titles-equally/
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This is what matters to retailers...money..and if sales look to be leaning HD DVD way then so too shall the retailers]]>Jul 7th 2007 5:26PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2007/07/07/retailers-seek-to-promote-hd-dvd-blu-ray-titles-equally/http://www.engadgethd.com/2007/07/07/retailers-seek-to-promote-hd-dvd-blu-ray-titles-equally/Jul 7th 2007 7:10PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2007/07/07/retailers-seek-to-promote-hd-dvd-blu-ray-titles-equally/http://www.engadgethd.com/2007/07/07/retailers-seek-to-promote-hd-dvd-blu-ray-titles-equally/Jul 7th 2007 8:43PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2007/07/07/retailers-seek-to-promote-hd-dvd-blu-ray-titles-equally/http://www.engadgethd.com/2007/07/07/retailers-seek-to-promote-hd-dvd-blu-ray-titles-equally/
Sales numbers (you know, the bit of this most seem to avoid like the plague to play little percentage or ratio games) are tiny, so nothing is big enough to matter especially right now.

Blu-ray have sold less than 2 million discs to HD DVD's 1.3 million discs......in a total disc market that saw sales of over 750 million last year alone.]]>Jul 7th 2007 10:26PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2007/07/07/retailers-seek-to-promote-hd-dvd-blu-ray-titles-equally/http://www.engadgethd.com/2007/07/07/retailers-seek-to-promote-hd-dvd-blu-ray-titles-equally/
The next big move for BD will be dropping prices on software to the point that HDDVD's are 30%-50% more across the board. This is the second place your wrong, and this is how BD will drop prices faster than HDDVD on software, even though HDDVD is "cheaper" to produce. PS3 games are on BD, so even though your right about the 1.3 million HDDVD disc sold. There have been WAY more than around 2 million BD sold. Ever BD produce helps drop the price of producing a disk, everyone knows that. 400,000 copies of Ninja Gadien have been sold already http://www.psxextreme.com/ps3-news/1460.html . Add that to the other 4 or 5 million Ps3 games sold. That’s about 7 million BD sold already compared to 1.3 million HDDVD's.

This Christmas season there will be $199 Funai players at wal-mart. With cheap BD software. There will still be HDDVD's around to buy for a another year or so, but the HDDDVD user base is about to stall out with cheap BD players coming real soon, then the gap will widen fast. No BD exclusive studio will produce HDDVD's ever, and it will just be a matter of time before Universal is releasing BD's. The Weinstiens in my mind have already gone BD(PS3 game/movie) and I imagine Grindhouse will be on BD, maybe not though.
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Already the prices of Blu-ray discs is usually lower than HD DVD discs. The player price will have less of an impact with the disparity in Disc prices for each format becoming greater.

Right now it's much easier to sell a HD DVD player as a replacement DVD player to someone that needs a new DVD player, as the player cost difference is large enough, but as disc costs drop on the blu-ray side due to decreased manufacturing costs it will be easier to convince a customer to pay more for a player that has cheaper discs.

This is one of the reasons I don't think HD DVD is really making alot of headway with the Sales of cheaper players, people forget that many of these sales are as DVD players, not HD DVD players, and the customers that are buying them have no plans to rush out and embrace HD DVD, they were just convinced to spend a bit more to "Future Proof" their purchase of a DVD player by buying a HD DVD player.]]>Jul 8th 2007 4:20PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2007/07/07/retailers-seek-to-promote-hd-dvd-blu-ray-titles-equally/http://www.engadgethd.com/2007/07/07/retailers-seek-to-promote-hd-dvd-blu-ray-titles-equally/Jul 8th 2007 8:48PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2007/07/07/retailers-seek-to-promote-hd-dvd-blu-ray-titles-equally/http://www.engadgethd.com/2007/07/07/retailers-seek-to-promote-hd-dvd-blu-ray-titles-equally/Jul 8th 2007 8:33PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2007/07/07/retailers-seek-to-promote-hd-dvd-blu-ray-titles-equally/http://www.engadgethd.com/2007/07/07/retailers-seek-to-promote-hd-dvd-blu-ray-titles-equally/Jul 9th 2007 5:52PM