DuckThor Evil
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That problem does not exist in Europe, the article is about the situation in the US.
Toshiba: BDA's victory claim "propaganda", sales figures "distorted" by BDA promos
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That problem does not exist in Europe, the article is about the situation in the US.
Yes I know... how many in US are affected ?
DuckThor Evil
Legend
I thought when Ban25 said "out there" that he meant Europe and so on...Anyways I think the old CRT (fakish) 1080i TV's are not very crucial part of the US market anymore.
Anyways I think the old CRT (fakish) 1080i TV's are not very crucial part of the US market anymore.
So, my point was those old 1080i-only CRTs are an issue for games, but not Blu-ray (the PS3 will output Blu-ray movies at 1080i). I think people were just confusing the issue, as I really don't think there are any substantial number of 720p-only displays out there.
It's actually the best selling Blu-Ray disc too (or is, as I write this post). It has a lot of word of mouth (keyboard?) on the internet.
It's a supposed to be a very beautiful nature documentary, you know, Great White jumps out of the water and chomps a seal in super slo-mo high def filming for the first time ever, that sort of thing. I'd actually be reasonably interested in buying it, it's the exact type of thing to show off HDTV (my sister said the min-series, which is also airing on cable channel Discovery right now, sucks though, dampening my enthusiasm)
It's the most popular high-def disc on Amazon over the past few days, but definitely not the best selling.
quest55720
Regular
I have no doubt in my mind there will be a 199 hd-dvd player for black friday some where online. If they already have a player that when on sale is selling at 299 I can easily see a 199 dollar player 1 day this year. I think this is great news for lots of customers. It will hopefully force the blue ray group to release a cost effective player. If not I could see hd-dvd selling a lot of players around x-mass time.
I do wonder if hd-dvd started to win with cheap stand alone players how long it would take movie studios to up support. Are they so entrenched in the superior blue ray DRM they will ride it to the bitter end?
I am happily surprised at how fast the hd-dvd player prices have come down. Looks like I will get my wish for a sub 250 dollar stand alone hd movie player from someone this year.
Planet Earth HD DVD breaks into top 5. First Hi Def title to do so! Impressive and importantly it's $70!
It helps when a few hundred people decide to order all their stuff on the same day (I think there's quite a few of them who ordered this) -- for some reason the AVS forum april 15th buy-a-thon seems so tacky to me. Makes you realize how few people it really takes to affect these amazon rankings, depending on the day/week.
I imagine Casino Royale's #8 or so actually equated to more sales than Planet Earth's #5 for a few reasons, but mainly: this happened on a sunday (not release day for movies, so fewer orders to compete with) and not release day of any high profile titles (competition on the ranking list is much lower, for example -- you've got almost all old movies in the top 10). The nature of these rankings makes them difficult to use properly for comparison (which is pretty much limited to same day comparisons only) -- I feel kind of hypocritical realizing this only in the face of success on the side I don't have a player of though (I think that's partly human nature though -- not to put much thought into things when they are going how you want/expect). For what it's worth, I almost pulled the trigger on an A2 recently, but I ended up buying a bunch of movies I wanted instead (mostly DVDs, actually -- a handful of criterion Kurasawa movies and some other foreign ones... stupid expensive criterions, even when paying discounted prices!)
Certainly is good to see consistant sub 100 rankings of high def titles though and I can't completely discount this news -- it's certainly going to have some solid sales and it's impressive that a $70 set is managing to do this well (both sides have cracked the top 20 -- I have a feeling the B&M sales of it won't be nearly as good, compared to a normal feature length/priced title, as it'll probably be like 100 dollars at B&M, if the store will even carry it, which is harder to swallow... I think amazon is getting a disproportionate number of sales on this title vs B&M stores, if that makes sense).
Bobbler, could you link to any info on the "April 15th" buy-a-thon ? (Is this for real ?
Sorry for delay, but it was mostly AVS forum, where a few hundred HD DVD fans celebrated the anniversary of HD DVD by buying stuff. Here is probably enough information: April 15th - Buy HD DVDs from Amazon Day!
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