Blu Ray is showing impressive gains

At the DisplaySearch conference held yesterday, attendees were treated to the latest information regarding the format war. Warner announced that '300' has sold over 250,000 copies on Blu-ray since it was released in July, twice as many as has sold on HD DVD. Sony also announced that the PS3 would soon be receiving a firmware upgrade to boost its Blu-ray interactivity functions.
On the whole, HD players have increased their market share, now at 5%, since August when it was only 1.3% of total DVD player sales. Additionally, HD players accounted for 27% of the revenue in the DVD player market. This trend is expected to continue through the upcoming holiday season.

[nasim]

It is estimated that around 200 000 ps3s were sold yesterday and around 100 000 copies of SPiderman 3 were dispatched during the purchases of PS3

source :- coming your way in 4 days time

CHARTTRACK,GFK and MCVUK are my sources --100% reliable

[Blood_Spiller]

Source?

[cuco33]

blu-ray.com

They are infamous for banning and deleting anyone who says anything negative about BD. I've had a PS3 buddy post about his disappointment with BD 1.1 being delayed to end of this month and how no player on the market right now is 1.1 compliant. He then asked about 2.0 (which requires Ethernet port) and aside from PS3 what other BD stand alones are worth it. Next time he tried to log back in his account was banned and his post was blackholed.
:rollseyes:

Here's the article

"At the DisplaySearch conference held yesterday, attendees were treated to the latest information regarding the format war. Warner announced that '300' has sold over 250,000 copies on Blu-ray since it was released in July, twice as many as has sold on HD DVD. Sony also announced that the PS3 would soon be receiving a firmware upgrade to boost its Blu-ray interactivity functions.

On the whole, HD players have increased their market share, now at 5%, since August when it was only 1.3% of total DVD player sales. Additionally, HD players accounted for 27% of the revenue in the DVD player market. This trend is expected to continue through the upcoming holiday season."

The firmware upgrade they are talking about is not BD1.1 or BD2.0. It is fixing or adding additional PS3 support for BD-J (some BD titles had issues, this firmware fixes them). BD1.1 profile deadline for 'new' players is end of this month (10/31/07) and hence why Samsung and Denon already delayed their 1.1 complaint players. Only rumors are gong around about PS3 being 1.1 compliant. I do believe it will be 1.1 compliant ("finalized" BD-J, BD+, etc specs) but not so sure about 2.0 as 2.0 requires 1gb ram which the PS3 doesn't have.

Note that they mentioned 'HD players' but don't mention if it's BD or HD DVD stand alones OR if they include the PS3 as part of those figures. With data and statistics, one can spin anything any way.

[BIadestarX]

Nasin sources = his hairy @$$.

[fury]

There is a spelling mistake in the title of this story. It's not "Blu Ray" but "Blu-ray".
I didn't expect that from a PS3 and Blu-ray fanboy like you.

[pilotpistolpete]

Nasim doesn't need sources, since everything he says only happens in his head

[Antan]

Extra functionality for PS3 via firmware update! exellent.

[THE_JUDGE]

and it has BD-J included in it!

[THUNDERMARE]

With interactive feature and some more price cute, BR will be on even term with HDDVD.

[rushbd]

I think bloodmask is nasim.

I was posting this news. But site told me that bloodmask is in the process of posting it.

And now Nasim has posted it.

I noticed it another day too. At first the news poster was nasim. but later the name changed to bloodmask.

[XxZxX]

wow that will super weird. Bloodmask alter-ego?? he actually like PS3..

[Meus Renaissance]

It's also said that POG is Round Peg and others. True or not, this rumour is funny in my eyes. How many members here exactly? 5? Each with 20 different accounts lol

[ITR]

I wonder if those numbers include all the 300's bundled with 3rd gen Toshiba players?

In HD DVD 300 came out in a combo ver and bundle ver(only with HD side).

[cuco33]

None of the bundled movies or free mail in offers count as sales. The studio gets paid for the film (most likely at cost) but via whoever is selling the player.

i.e. I got in Amazon's HD DVD deal for 8 free movies. 3 were paid via Amazon and 5 free mail ins from Toshiba's account. I also purchased 2 box sets (Planet Earth and Matrix Trilogy) and a handful of HD DVDs totalling 15 out of my pocket. I'm supporting HD DVD not just through the freebies and will do the same when I get a PS3 as well. Embrace both (formats and consoles) and leave the remaining slandering to the trolls. Neither format is dead, in actuality they both right now need to do well together or mass adaptation of HDM won't happen.

[TheXgamerLive]

Hell of a deal on a hell of a player.

[PStriple703]

with your dead format

[xbox360migs]

It's great and if people keep buying HD DVD then it stands a chance, When it comes to the 300 though how many people actually own the better version of 300, answer...not 250'000.

[eagle21]

waste of space

[Sulphur Man]

Both HD-DVD and BR are stuck in neutral. Sales of 300 in the UK are as follows.... 95.6& DVD, 1.2% HD-DVD, 3.1% Blu-Ray. Just how long will it take the Hi-Def formats to overhaul DVD?? They're both battling to be a distant second, and will cotinue to do so for years to come.

Very few people are disastisfied with DVD, and there's many upscaling players which present an excellent 'SD' image on the latest display technology.

SD DVD will remain the most popular format by far until internet bandwith becomes big enough to handle all our video needs.