HD-DVD Players Now Outselling Blu-Ray >

	2007/10/11 11:05:59: Posted by vividbreeze
	PRESS RELEASE OCT. 9 | UNIVERSAL CITY, Calif.—HD DVD set-tops have reclaimed their dominance over Blu-ray standalone players, according to weekly NPD Group unit sales figures cited by Toshiba. (source video business) HD DVD players began outselling Blu-ray models starting in mid-September and regained a year-to-date lead of a little over 50% through the rest of the month, said Jodi Sally, Toshiba VP of marketing of digital A/V products. Year to date, according to NPD figures she cited, HD DVD players command 53% of sales; Blu-ray players, 44%; dual format players, 3%. She acknowledged several Blu-ray weekly victories in the run-up to home theater installer conference CEDIA, but she told attendees at Tuesday’s DVD Forum conference, that Blu-ray victory was short lived. At the time of CEDIA in early September, Sony executives said that the launch of the company’s $499 models, which marked the cheapest available BD set-tops to date, helped boost their August sales. “When new models hit stores there will be a surge in demand. There were some weeks where we lagged,” said Sally. “But overall HD DVD continues to dominate.” Toshiba began launching its series of third generation HD DVD players in September. Its new entry-level model, the $299 HD-A3 is beginning to hit shelves in October. Sally also talked up HD DVD strength within PC drives. Toshiba estimates that 5 million HD DVD drives for desktops and notebooks will be sold during fiscal 2008. She believes that should make the format competitive with the Playstation 3, which was nearing 2 million units sold in the U.S. through the summer. HD DVD laptops are closing in on a relatively attractive $1,000 price point, likely fueling the retail movement. Toshiba believes more people are buying PC HD DVD drives with the pure intention to watch high-def movies than people who are buying the PS3. Sources have estimated that just 20% of PS3 owners have played movies on the machine.
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hmmm...

in first place, they should've reduce it down...

they don't actually count PS3s as set-top boxes because they're not dedicated players.

So they're numbers aren't totally accurate

The HD-DVD players for the Xbox 360 aren't included here either, so we need to keep that in mind.

HD-DVD really is the format I love more than any other...remember, now that Warner Bros. only release high-definition movies on HD-DVD, that means the BIGGEST movie of the summer--Transformers--is only going to be released on HD-DVD.

I have my special dual-disc HD-DVD version of Transformers preordered, and I will pick it up in just four days on October 16!!!

the biggest movie of the summer is spider-man :oP

Are you sure that they don't include the HD-DVD add-on for the 360? technically speaking, it IS a stand alone player

bigger than Pirates 3? oh, well, by $10mil i suppose .. but we (blu) get's Pirates 1, 3 AND we could author your silly Transformers to blu-ray if we really wanted to waste the money. hd-dvd burners? oops! guess not...

who cares