You have to lok hard to dig up statistics contrary to THE FACT that BluRay is beating HDDVD.
First of all, as predicted, the PS3 allowed the market penetration of HDDVD to fufill itself with ease - placing a Blu Ray player in the homes of the millions who bought (and are buying PS3's. The same thing happened when PS2 was released and the home DVD player still cost over $1000. PS2's, especially in Japan allowed DVD players to be purchased inexspensively.
HDDVD is a losing format because unlike Blu Ray, it doesn't boast the largest viable storage capacity. Furthermore, you actually HAVE to buy an HDDVD player and you cannot buy a secondary deviice and get one. Had Microsoft implanted HDDVD drives in the 360, they might have helped but, theyfailed to do so - which speaks volumes as to how they feel about the format THEY are backing.
Blu Ray is the more attractive format by default. No matter what you think about the format war, you cannot argue with the raw numbers.
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DickHardknocks @ Oct 10th 2007 1:16PM
You have to lok hard to dig up statistics contrary to THE FACT that BluRay is beating HDDVD.
First of all, as predicted, the PS3 allowed the market penetration of HDDVD to fufill itself with ease - placing a Blu Ray player in the homes of the millions who bought (and are buying PS3's.
The same thing happened when PS2 was released and the home DVD player still cost over $1000. PS2's, especially in Japan allowed DVD players to be purchased inexspensively.
HDDVD is a losing format because unlike Blu Ray, it doesn't boast the largest viable storage capacity. Furthermore, you actually HAVE to buy an HDDVD player and you cannot buy a secondary deviice and get one. Had Microsoft implanted HDDVD drives in the 360, they might have helped but, theyfailed to do so - which speaks volumes as to how they feel about the format THEY are backing.
Blu Ray is the more attractive format by default. No matter what you think about the format war, you cannot argue with the raw numbers.