They should be out first week of Oct, so in about 2 weeks.
I read a quote saying “Blu-ray software was averaging sales of 1500 units weekly, compared with 250 units weekly for HD DVD”. As for the hardware at the end June 2007 in Australia the PS3 had sold about 55,000 Units, Blu-ray only players had sold just over 1000 units, HD DVD players including Xbox 360 add-on had sold just under 2000.
Blu-ray also had the lead in the number of titles available, with about 110 software titles available for Blu-ray at the end of June, compared with about 50 for HD DVD. Allthough EzyDVD and Quickflix had been reporting to Toshiba that sales were going in HD DVD's favour by as much as two to one, but GFK Research suggests that Blu-ray Disc movie titles accounted for 66 percent of HD movie sales in the US and 60 percent of HD movie sales in Europe in the first half of 2007.
A few weeks ago, SmartHouse reported that Blu-ray is outselling HD DVD by a 2:1 ratio. Now, the HD DVD Promotion group is fighting this claim with the release of statistics showing that it holds 70 percent of the IT and standalone high definition market in Europe.
Sony Australia’s latest HD Benchmark Report puts Blu-ray well ahead of the HD DVD format. Of the nearly 6,000 HD movies sold in Australia in Q1 2007, 90.8% were in the Blu-ray format. Roger Clarke, managing director of Warner Bros. in Australia, said Warner would have released around 30 titles on both Blu-ray and HD DVD by August 8, and a further 20-30 titles would be added the end of the year.
I guess you just have to believe what ever you want, all I know is of my customer more people are asking for Blu-ray, not many people are asking about HD DVD. As LondonConsultant said, it wont really matter, with products like these coming out who cares?
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They should be out first week of Oct, so in about 2 weeks.
I read a quote saying “Blu-ray software was averaging sales of 1500 units weekly, compared with 250 units weekly for HD DVD”. As for the hardware at the end June 2007 in Australia the PS3 had sold about 55,000 Units, Blu-ray only players had sold just over 1000 units, HD DVD players including Xbox 360 add-on had sold just under 2000.
Blu-ray also had the lead in the number of titles available, with about 110 software titles available for Blu-ray at the end of June, compared with about 50 for HD DVD. Allthough EzyDVD and Quickflix had been reporting to Toshiba that sales were going in HD DVD's favour by as much as two to one, but GFK Research suggests that Blu-ray Disc movie titles accounted for 66 percent of HD movie sales in the US and 60 percent of HD movie sales in Europe in the first half of 2007.
A few weeks ago, SmartHouse reported that Blu-ray is outselling HD DVD by a 2:1 ratio. Now, the HD DVD Promotion group is fighting this claim with the release of statistics showing that it holds 70 percent of the IT and standalone high definition market in Europe.
Sony Australia’s latest HD Benchmark Report puts Blu-ray well ahead of the HD DVD format. Of the nearly 6,000 HD movies sold in Australia in Q1 2007, 90.8% were in the Blu-ray format. Roger Clarke, managing director of Warner Bros. in Australia, said Warner would have released around 30 titles on both Blu-ray and HD DVD by August 8, and a further 20-30 titles would be added the end of the year.
I guess you just have to believe what ever you want, all I know is of my customer more people are asking for Blu-ray, not many people are asking about HD DVD. As LondonConsultant said, it wont really matter, with products like these coming out who cares?