Viewed in perspective, HDM growth outpacing DVD

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kcmurphy88 @ Jan 29th 2008 11:12PM

You miss the point, obviously. HD DVD is going to lose because STUDIOS are withholding product, not because the format is a failure. Up until the Warner announcement HD DVD was closing the gap that had opened when Sony rolled out the PS3s. All trends were working towards HD DVD.

But Warner thought that the problem was two formats and that one format was better, so they cut a deal to kill one. They didn't care which -- Plan A was to kill blu-ray by getting Fox to go Red at the same time. That fell through so they chose Plan B.

Now we find that two formats weren't a problem, and in fact had probably sped things up rather than slow them down.

The question is whether a single blu-ray format, the more costly of the two, can continue to grow even as SOny inches the prices back up. They've already hiked prices on their entry player by $100, and the days of buy-one-get-one-free are clearly over.

I'm willing to bet that disc sales are way way down. I'm also willing to bet that no one will talk about it.

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