Toshiba third-gen HD DVD players at CEDIA, 2nd gen 1080p24 firmware update

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Joseph R @ Sep 6th 2007 8:37PM

"6. Total HD DVD player unit sales are expected to reach more than 30 million stand alone units by the end of �07."

Uh, this cannot be accurate.

FYI: internet and trade magazine reports stated recently, that as of mid-August sales of HD-DVD stand-alone players was around 409,000 vs less than 300,000 Blu-ray stand-alone players, not counting video game units for each (2-3 million combined), so it's not yet possible that "30 million HD-DVD stand-alone units" will have been sold within a few more months.

Also, the combined total of disc software sales of both HD-DVD and Blu-ray amount to just 1% - very early adopter stage - compared to around 94% for standard DVD, 3% for VHS (still kickin' for some folks), and 2% for everything else (like PSP, download/streaming, etc).

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Nate the Prophet @ Sep 6th 2007 9:44PM

There are very different numbers for Global vs US only sales. But I'm still guessing it was a typo and he meant 3 million, which would be quite an accomplishment for HD DVD after a little more than a year.

How many DVD players had been sold in that time, I wonder? It seems to my that the relative prices of HD players (both formats) are dropping a lot faster than they did for DVD, or am I crazy?

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