Blu-ray outsold HD DVD by a nearly 2-to-1 margin for the first nine months of the year, selling 2.6 million units to HD DVD’s 1.4 million. All that is bupkis now that Transformers is out, which sold more than 100,000 copies on its first day of release last week.
Vince made a good point in the chat room… aside from rabid fanboys, does anyone really care who outsells whom? Like, it’s completely irrelevant to me enjoying either format. (I still haven’t ponied up for either, by the way.)
One analyst said 2008 will be the deciding year in this “war.” Wake me when it’s over.
Blu-ray outsells HD-DVD in U.S. for first 9 months [Reuters]
I plan on owning players for both formats by the end of 2007.
And then next week Spiderman 3 comes out on blu-ray only….. no HD
Hmmm… everything is going digital, so really, both formats are essentially the same and have no relevance in the coming future. Just download these movies from the net (amazon etc) and then, no worries!
Jon
The winning format is the multiformat version that plays both.
Gimme a break…one big HD-DVD is gonna change the format war to HD DVD?
Don’t tell me that if Transformers came out on Blu Ray, that it would not have outsold HD-DVD like every other release. The movie 300 comes to mind 2:1 ratio.
Transformers was a big hit in theaters and it usually relates to good home sales, if Paramount had stayed with Blu Ray they would have sold 3 times as many copies because they probably would have sold another 200,000 in blu ray. Even Michale Bay the director wanted his movie on blu ray cause he knows the blu ray market is twice as big and getting bigger.