HD DVD sales figures make Blu-ray camp look grim
Some people might remember what Sony and their BDA buddies were saying back in January this year, it went something along the lines of the format war being over, and that they had already won.
Well I notice today that Sony CEO now admits things aren't quite as rosy as they were saying, admitting that "It's a difficult fight" and that they're in a "stalemate" in the fight against HD DVD. He also wishes he could travel back in time, to when they were in talks with Toshiba about uniting the format. I bet they do, now that they're losing.
After last weekends' Walmart and Bestbuy $99 HD DVD player promotion it is widely reported that 90,000 machines were shifted, these are quite simply huge numbers at such an early stage in the format war to put things in perspective, the HD DVD camp sold as many players in three days as Sony sold in 6 months. People like Robert McLaws are coming to the same position I reached a few months ago saying that the momentum is with HD DVD.
9th November 2007 18:35:58, 182 words, 977 views
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If you have a look on Amazon, at the moment the HD DVD discs are out selling Blu-ray quite easily. With the top ten HD DVDs having twice the salesrank of the top ten Blu-ray discs.