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Both formats are still floundering on title releases....

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In Reply to: RE: The movies, my friend, the movies posted by 4season on June 07, 2007 at 11:38:25

and disc sales. But if it takes eliminating one format for either to survive, I'll pick Blu-Ray to survive. It's got the edge on major studio support, if not actual releases. If the upcoming BD+ DRM actually works (I doubt it will), Blu-rays' survival is guaranteed.

HD-DVD is the cheaper buy (at least for now, I expect that to change in the next year or so), it would be hard to argue it's the "safer" buy. I hedged my bets, I opted for the combo player to feed that 110" display, knowing there is still a painful product maturation process and format war still going .

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Planet Earth HD DVD is still #4 on Amazon - 4season 13:38:51 06/07/07 (1)
It's been in their Top 10 for some time now. In Blu-Ray, it's #17 and by far the top-selling B-D title listed. "Pirates" briefly unseated it in B-D but has since dropped to #54.

Don't put too much faith in support from major movie studios, because that support can evaporate overnight if they feel there's no money to be made: Look what happened to Sony's Universal Media Disk (UMD).
- The numbers are still REALLY low - Jack G 14:23:23 06/07/07 (0)
  Planet Earth has sold 42,000 copies, probably both formats together. The Departed sold 100,000 combined. Pirate-23,500 each. Matrix Boxes, 17,000. There are titles that probably haven't hit the 1000 mark yet.
  These are not impressive numbers. This is why I always laugh when some boob gets online and says something like "BD is Killing HD DVD!" or my personal fave, "CONTENT RULES!" :-)
  HD has a long hard road ahead of it. The likelyhood of these being being niche formats is quite high, and I don't have a problem with that. Time will tell. Its possible, that nothing will happen untill 2009, when the digital/HD switch is turned on.
  Jack

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