Re: Paramount ditches Blu-Ray
According to Neilsen/Videoscan sales data, (the only figures that count), Blu has won every week this year and certainly nothing has changed. HD-DVD is dead outside of the US and slowly bleeding to death domestically.
Take recently - even in HD-DVD's big week of Bourne and with their BOGO sales they still lost 61%-39%to Blu, who had no new releases of note.
Anyone who is really bored can read about it here:
http://forums.highdefdigest.com/forumdisplay.php?f=43
I wouldn't be surprised if studios drop HD-DVD, the money lost on a few HD-DVD is more than madeup by the benefits of one format, and consumer confusion is not in their interests.
I really can't see HD-DVD taking the win so I hope its death is a swift, baring any 'Paramount' incidents, that win that will be sometime in 2008, probably earlier than later.
According to Neilsen/Videoscan sales data, (the only figures that count), Blu has won every week this year and certainly nothing has changed. HD-DVD is dead outside of the US and slowly bleeding to death domestically.
Take recently - even in HD-DVD's big week of Bourne and with their BOGO sales they still lost 61%-39%to Blu, who had no new releases of note.
Anyone who is really bored can read about it here:
http://forums.highdefdigest.com/forumdisplay.php?f=43
I wouldn't be surprised if studios drop HD-DVD, the money lost on a few HD-DVD is more than madeup by the benefits of one format, and consumer confusion is not in their interests.
I really can't see HD-DVD taking the win so I hope its death is a swift, baring any 'Paramount' incidents, that win that will be sometime in 2008, probably earlier than later.
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