Over 100.000 HD DVD players sold in US
The HD DVD Promotion Group (it does what it says) has announced that over 100.000 stand alone HD DVD players have been sold in the US of A. That's excluding the drives found in PCs and the HD DVD add on for the Xbox 360.
Not bad at all, considering this beats the number of stand alone Blu Ray players, of course only when you exclude the sale of the PS3.
The battle is still raging, with no predictable ending in sight. *sigh*
And there could be trouble on the horizon, with a third player in the HD disc format wars: HD VMD.
We reported on this some time ago and it seems that the HD VMD format is gaining some momentum. The French format has signed a deal with Metropolitan FilmExport. Who? Well not just anyone: Metropolitan has the distribution right to the Lord of the Rings trilogy and distrubutes all New Line Cinema flicks in France. Big plus of the format is pricing: you can get an HD VMD player and five movies for €299. Now that's what I call pricing!
Will this "little guy" stand a chance? Let me know what you think!
Source: Tweakers
Not bad at all, considering this beats the number of stand alone Blu Ray players, of course only when you exclude the sale of the PS3.
The battle is still raging, with no predictable ending in sight. *sigh*
And there could be trouble on the horizon, with a third player in the HD disc format wars: HD VMD.
We reported on this some time ago and it seems that the HD VMD format is gaining some momentum. The French format has signed a deal with Metropolitan FilmExport. Who? Well not just anyone: Metropolitan has the distribution right to the Lord of the Rings trilogy and distrubutes all New Line Cinema flicks in France. Big plus of the format is pricing: you can get an HD VMD player and five movies for €299. Now that's what I call pricing!
Will this "little guy" stand a chance? Let me know what you think!
Source: Tweakers
2 comments:
I prefered BluRay, but Ill take HVD over HDDVD anyday. sounds like it has the best bits from both really, simple to produce like HDDVD and expandable almost like BluRay.
Maybe it would be just as well Europe had its own format anyways considering all the regions and crap they love to put on formats that could be universal today..
On second thought, screw BluRay and HDDVD, Im getting one of these! :)
I think this format war is kinda useless. They're equipping all sorts of devices (tv's, stereos) with usb-slots, memorycard readers,...
I think in 5 years flash memory will be the format of choice. HD movies on a SDcard or USB sticks...
That's the future!
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