Xbox 360 HD DVD holds one-third of market
- December 17th, 2007
- 1 Comment
The Inquirer today writes that the 360 makes up one-third of the HD DVD player market. A recently released report speculates that 750,000 HD DVD players are currently in homes and that 269,000 of them are of the Xbox 360 add-on variety.
It still remains unclear whether HD DVD or Blu-ray is winning the war, but it boils down to several factors. Blu-ray is the better technology, but HD DVD is more affordable and thus more accessible. Studios seem split down the middle in terms of what to support, which is the biggest hindrance to the consumer. That’s the thing that really needs to be settled before a single format wins out. Once a format manages to lure the brunt of the studios, that format will win for the simple fact that content is king and the player with the most titles wins by default.
I recently purchased a Toshiba HD-A2 for $99 for the simple fact that I needed a new DVD player. Its support of HD DVD is an added bonus.
Xbox makes up a third of HD DVD players [The inquirer]
Reza (Who am I?)
9 months ago
Initially i thought Blu-ray would win hands down (im not a sony fan boy…far from it) but i now believe HD-DVD has a good chance of winning the crown. I have noticed from retail shops more and more titles appearing on HD-DVD including older flims, but on Blu-ray all yiu seem to get is Spierman and Harry Potter. Even if you go to Tesco the shelf-space taken up by Blu-ray titles has dwindled down, while the space taken by HD-DVD has been constant or grown slightly. While there are more studios backing Blu-ray, HD-DVD has a huge studio backing it - Universal Studios which is why we are seeing so many titles now appearing on HD-DVD. HD-DVD films need to drop in price to match that of normal DVDs, only then will it become the mainstream format. Most folk would not like to pay £23 for a film, knowing they could buy it on normal DVD for almost half that.