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Planet Earth HD DVD is still #4 on Amazon

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In Reply to: RE: Both formats are still floundering on title releases.... posted by oscar on June 07, 2007 at 12:54:13

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).

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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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