Stand-alone BD players reach 93% marketshare

More slanted and unsubstantiated non-news from a BD fan.

This is just more of the usual nonsense spread by Sony shills . . . :X

Good, HD-DVD is almost dead now. Too bad Toshiba and Micro$oft wasted so much time and money on such a loser. :r

BS ! 93% share of what ? No way are there that many more standalone BR than HD DVD. Others sites report that this is for recorders, not players ! Look at Amazon.com's top selling players today. #1, #3 and #9 selling players are HD DVD players. # 6, #17 and #19 are blu-ray players. The rest in between are up-converting DVD players. I highly doubt this "phenomenon" is exlusive to Amazon. The consumer will decide this, right now they are buying more HD DVD players and if their dollar buys many HD DVD's in the coming months, the BR studios won't ignore that...
This message was edited at: 25-01-2008 20:21

Since I can't Edit again, re. my above statement, I meant right now consumers are buying more HD DVD standalone players than BR in some cases (Amazon.com), and if this is not only at Amazon, then those HD DVD consumer's will be buying lots of movies in the coming months ...

I make HD-DVD discs for Cinram, the world's largest replicator of pre-recorded media.We also mold Blu-Ray discs. The picture quality and data capabilities of BR is far superior to any HD-DVD disc ever produced. Toshiba and the others thought that the market would be decided on price alone, similar to the VHS-Beta wars 20 yrs. ago. Beta was the better format then, but JVC beat them mightily on cost. As was explained to us by a Sony rep, people now spending upwards of 3-5 thousand on a home theater system aren't scared off by spending the extra 300 dollars for a BR player or PS3 system; plus the gaming oppurtunities inherent in the data capabilities of a BR disc, which aren't even available in the HD-DVD format, were enough to put them heads above the cheapies this time. Cinram just ordered 20 new BR replication systems while letting HD-DVD fall back to obscurity, and the quality standards now set for HD-DVD through May are barely half what they were in the Thanksgiving-Xmas time frame. Let the buyer beware !!!

HDMolder; "The picture quality and data capabilities of BR is far superior to any HD-DVD disc ever produced." Really? Each can use MPEG-2/MPEG-4 and VC1 video codecs which makes picture quality exactly the same.. It does have the edge in the data storage dept but I wouldnt call it 'far superior' in this respect.. As a replicator of BD disc's it must be apparent that they cost more to make because they are thinner than standard DVD's (HD-DVD is the same thickness as the standard ones) and require facilities to be updated or replaced to accomodate replicating these discs.. The BD discs also requires a special hard coating to protect the data which is a mere 0.1mm beneath so that also adds to the cost..
This message was edited at: 27-01-2008 21:26