Blu-ray is twice as popular as HD DVD

It seems that a noticeable cheapening of HD DVD players, a wide range of corresponding discs, and also quite reasonable prices for them are not a guarantee of victory in the war of formats. In any case, the statistics suggests that Blu-ray discs are currently the most popular.

According to the estimates of specialists from the American company Home Media Research, during the first half of this year about 1.6 million Blu-ray films were sold in the United States, while HD DVDs sold only 795 thousand from the counters, that is, twice as little. Interestingly, this situation is quite adequately illustrated by the sale of the film "300 Spartans" by Zack Snyder. The fact is that in the United States this film was released in both formats, and the HD DVD-version instantly became the best-selling HD DVD-film. However, this did not prevent the Blu-ray version to become more popular almost twice.

Definitely give the reasons for the situation difficult. On the one hand, the apparent influence of Sony and its Playstation 3 game console is obvious. On the other hand, Toshiba continually claims that consumer HD DVD players are selling much better than BD players. In any case, it is worth waiting for at least another year or two, after which it will be possible to draw some definite conclusions.
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via TG Daily