Consumer Reports' take on HD DVD / Blu-ray players: it's a tie

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Craig WB @ Nov 19th 2007 12:15AM

Your living in a Dream world Mike, The only way this scenario could happen is if blu-ray players suddenly stopped selling which of course is ridiculous, or perhaps if prices never dropped and suddenly became an issue seeing as Blu-ray owners actually seem to be buying Blu-ray discs where as HD-DVD owners seem more interested in subscribing to net flicks or buying a cheap player just to show how much they support the format because they have a deep irrational hatred for Sony.
The reality at best is that Blu-ray will continue to soldier on and Toshiba will continue to follow because they seem to hate this Java stuff like it ran over their mothers and their rabbits.

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Mike @ Nov 19th 2007 12:43AM

I didn't say they would leave blue ray...so blue ray sales are irrelavent...software or hardware.

You can be sure all studios has numbers that tell them how may players has to be sold for them to see a profit or how many copies of a certain movie need to be sold.

The number might not be 500k players it might not even be 1 million. But you be sure both Fox and Disney wanted to know how Transformers did on HD DVD...just as Universal wanted to see how spiderman 3 did on blue ray.

Would Disney sell Pirates on HD DVD if they thought they could sell 200k copies? what about when day and dates on HD DVD are selling 400k? Like I said all the studios have a number where profits will just become to tempting to ignore.

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jason w @ Nov 21st 2007 9:06AM

The attach rate is higher for HDDVD.... THAT MEANS MORE HDDVD DISC ARE PURCHASED PER UNIT SOLD! There are more bluray players because of PS3 but not every one or even 1/4 of the people that have them use them for movies.

Just because some people dont like Bluray does not mean they hate sony. It may mean they like the movies on HDdvd better. Hell I have both formats and dont care who wins but people who make arguments like yours makes me favor the other side.

IT WILL END WHEN DUAL PLAYERS ARE IN THE $200.00 range.

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