Blu-ray has 70% of 1st qtr sales?

[Capeta]

Anybody who hasn't heard of Onkyo doesn't know sh*t about home theater and should just stay away from both BR and HD DVD period. Might as well stick with your Labtecs and call it a day.

 

[a4164]

HD DVD CE manufacturer support:

HD DVD exclusive: Toshiba, NEC, Sanyo, RCA, Kenwood
HD DVD non exclusive: Hitachi, LG, Lite On, Onkyo, Samsung

Denon and Marantz are also members of the HD DVD Promotion Group

http://www.hddvdprg.com/eng/about/member.html

 

[Bigus Dickus]

Anybody who hasn't heard of Onkyo doesn't know sh*t about home theater and should just stay away from both BR and HD DVD period. Might as well stick with your Labtecs and call it a day.

Ditto.

 

[Geeforcer]

Onkyo. I'm surprised you've heard of Kenwood and not Onkyo. Of course I don't consider Onkyo "major" as in a house hold name, same with Kenwood.

I know what they are. I don't see them as a "big brand name CE" (I highlighted that part for a reason).

 

[deathkiller]

HD DVD CE manufacturer support:

HD DVD exclusive: Toshiba, NEC, Sanyo, RCA, Kenwood
HD DVD non exclusive: Hitachi, LG, Lite On, Onkyo, Samsung

Denon and Marantz are also members of the HD DVD Promotion Group

http://www.hddvdprg.com/eng/about/member.html

I wouldn't call NEC HD-DVD exclusive since they don't manufacture HD-DVDs and NEC Electronics Corporation is a BDA member http://www.blu-raydisc.com/general_information/Section-14009/Index.html

 

[Skrying]

I know what they are. I don't see them as a "big brand name CE" (I highlighted that part for a reason).

Don't recall that in your post originally, a ninja edit?

 

[Geeforcer]

Don't recall that in your post originally, a ninja edit?

Nope, didn't touch it.

 

[SPM]

HD DVD CE manufacturer support:

HD DVD exclusive: Toshiba, NEC, Sanyo, RCA, Kenwood
HD DVD non exclusive: Hitachi, LG, Lite On, Onkyo, Samsung

Denon and Marantz are also members of the HD DVD Promotion Group

http://www.hddvdprg.com/eng/about/member.html

NEC, Sanyo are primarily white goods companies as far as the consumer goods are concerned. RCA and Kenwood are regarded as low quality goods companies, and Kenwood also does a lot of white goods.

LG, Hitachi, and Samsung are actually Bluray association members supporting Bluray, and Kenwood and Lite On are contributors to the Bluray association, and Onkyo is a member of the Bluray association. Only NEC and Sanyo have a higher prominence on the HD-DVD board than the Bluray board.
http://www.blu-raydisc.com/general_information/Section-14009/Index.html


There was a similar situation with regard to Sony Betamax support - a few manufacturers with a lower prominence supported it.

 

[Skrying]

Nope, didn't touch it.

Well then, my mistake as I totally missed that.

 

[a4164]

HD DVD exclusive: Toshiba, NEC, Sanyo, RCA, Kenwood
HD DVD non exclusive: Hitachi, LG, Lite On, Onkyo, Samsung

Onkyo DV-HD805 (HD DVD):

http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/06/onkyos-new-hd-dvd-player-the-dv-hd805/

Hitachi, LG, Lite On, and Samsung support both HD DVD and Blu Ray.

http://www.engadget.com/2006/01/06/sanyos-hd-s100-hd-dvd-player/

Sanyo hasn't released its players.

NEC has PC HD DVD drives (HR-1100A). Also, didn't NEC co-develop HD DVD with Toshiba...

Samsung BD-UP5000 (HD DVD and Blu Ray):

http://www.samsung.com/PressCenter/PressRelease/PressRelease.asp?seq=20070413_0000338109

LG BH100 and GGW-H10N (HD DVD and Blu Ray):

http://www.lge.com/about/press_release/detail/PRO|NEWS^PRE|MENU^RND|MENU_20318_PRE|MENU.jhtml

Hitachi GGW-H20N (HD DVD and Blu Ray):

http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/12/hitachi-showcases-internal-ggw-h20n-blu-ray-burner-hd-dvd-read/

Lite On HDP-Z1 (HD DVD):

http://www.liteonit.eu/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=209&Itemid=124

I believe Meridian is also releasing a HD DVD player. I hope Denon does as well.

 

[Random Digital]

In the other thread about Blockbuster it seems that quoted the same 70% number as the original article here. I guess it was not just a fluke.