Well, Kevin, I can't Agree with you on the player argument. I own a PS3 and I do buy BR movies and rent them to watch. Although not all the PS3 owners buy movies, there are some that do and the larger the selection gets, the more likely they will buy some new release in the future since they have a player for Blu-ray. If you only consider 10% of the PS3 sales as sales for Blu-ray players that's over 200,000 right there. The likely reality is that an even Greater percentage of Gamers will buy a few movies here and there.
BR already has almost 40 more movies out than HD DVD. Each and every month they release just 1 or 2 more than HD is releasing.
In Disc Sales BR is outselling HD (And with more selection and releases it's only likely to continue.) creating an ever growing disparity in selection with Warner only helping BR by releasing on both formats so that many titles are available on both but more are Only available on BR. Most people don't know all the Technical differences so all they see are the same movies on both formats, and more movies only in BR.
No blu-ray only Studio will be switching over to releasing HD DVD which has less sell through and inhibits their current sell through and price points by lingering in the market; it's just a bad business move, and these companies are run by business people.
Given this we can conclude that only if HD DVD disc sales increase beyond blu-ray disc sales will there be a business incentive for companies to consider going neutral or locking out blu-ray, and with there being more studios currently locking out HD DVD, as well as those studios being the biggest Studios with releases this year like the spiderman trilogy and the Pirates trilogy(both PG-something releases unlike the R rated Matrix which is due out on BR later this year.), the likelihood of HD DVD discs sales overtaking Blu-ray disc sales is grim at best.
Every day that goes by the disc selection and disparity becomes a larger and larger reason for people to choose a Blu-ray player over an HD DVD player, so the likelihood of increasing Blu-ray players sales, and Decreasing HD DVD players sales makes perfect sense.
In the average non-technical buyers mind, Disc player price point is the only reason to buy an HD DVD player, and the difference in Player prices is also shrinking every day.
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Well, Kevin, I can't Agree with you on the player argument. I own a PS3 and I do buy BR movies and rent them to watch. Although not all the PS3 owners buy movies, there are some that do and the larger the selection gets, the more likely they will buy some new release in the future since they have a player for Blu-ray. If you only consider 10% of the PS3 sales as sales for Blu-ray players that's over 200,000 right there. The likely reality is that an even Greater percentage of Gamers will buy a few movies here and there.
BR already has almost 40 more movies out than HD DVD. Each and every month they release just 1 or 2 more than HD is releasing.
In Disc Sales BR is outselling HD (And with more selection and releases it's only likely to continue.) creating an ever growing disparity in selection with Warner only helping BR by releasing on both formats so that many titles are available on both but more are Only available on BR. Most people don't know all the Technical differences so all they see are the same movies on both formats, and more movies only in BR.
No blu-ray only Studio will be switching over to releasing HD DVD which has less sell through and inhibits their current sell through and price points by lingering in the market; it's just a bad business move, and these companies are run by business people.
Given this we can conclude that only if HD DVD disc sales increase beyond blu-ray disc sales will there be a business incentive for companies to consider going neutral or locking out blu-ray, and with there being more studios currently locking out HD DVD, as well as those studios being the biggest Studios with releases this year like the spiderman trilogy and the Pirates trilogy(both PG-something releases unlike the R rated Matrix which is due out on BR later this year.), the likelihood of HD DVD discs sales overtaking Blu-ray disc sales is grim at best.
Every day that goes by the disc selection and disparity becomes a larger and larger reason for people to choose a Blu-ray player over an HD DVD player, so the likelihood of increasing Blu-ray players sales, and Decreasing HD DVD players sales makes perfect sense.
In the average non-technical buyers mind, Disc player price point is the only reason to buy an HD DVD player, and the difference in Player prices is also shrinking every day.