Blu-ray has outsold HD DVD so far this year

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KC @ Aug 16th 2007 2:13PM

HD-DVD appears to be taking a "Razor + blades" approach. Cheap players, but more expensive disks. Since the disks are apparently cheaper to make they are making more profit off them allowing them to further lower the cost of players. This is probably a big reason so many manufacturers are not jumping on the HD-DVD bandwagon. They can't turn a profit off hardware because they have to subsidize it to compete with Toshiba machines.

Blu-Ray has more expensive players, but allot of new release disks are being released at the same price as the DVD version and older movies are only a couple dollars more then the DVD.

That's good strategy as it probably encourages a few PS3 owners who otherwise wouldn't to pick up Blu-Ray disks because the cost is comparable to the DVD version.

These DVD/HD-DVD combo disk packs that cost up to ten dollars more then the regular DVD version of the movies are not helping the HD-DVD cause.

What's the point of a cheap player if you're going to get nailed on the media later on?

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