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Our Blogs The BeerFiles HD DVD spin wears thin after Blockbuster goes Blu-ray | HD DVD spin wears thin after Blockbuster goes Blu-ray |
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| Written by Stan Beer | |
| Tuesday, 19 June 2007 | |
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The PS3 may so far be a poor selling games console compared to its competitors but in the fledgling high definition video player space it simply blows its competitors away. Even if most consumers aren't buying the PS3 to play videos, it's hard to imagine that they wouldn't also use it for that purpose. To give some indication of the difference between HD DVD player sales and PS3 sales, using the HD DVD Promotional Group's own numbers, consumers have purchased 150,000 dedicated HD DVD consumer electronics players. To date, worldwide sales of PS3 consoles is approaching 4 million, with about 1.5 million sold in the US. Add to that about 100,000 dedicated Blu-ray players sold. So the HD DVD camp can crow about its 4 to 1 movie attach rate advantage over Blu-ray players but it doesn't really hold water when you have 25 times the number of Blu-ray players in homes. As far as price is concerned, what was once the biggest selling point of HD DVD players is fast diminishing. In the US, the gap is now just $100 between the cheapest players of both formats and that is likely to disappear altogether in the not too distant future. Things can always turn around of course, but when the biggest video store on the block throws its lot in with Blu-ray then its seems that the writing is on the wall for HD DVD - can anyone spell Betamax?{moscomment}
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