Blu-ray/HD DVD Disc Sales Numbers Revealed

An anonymous reader writes "The High-Def format wars finally have a yardstick against which to measure who's winning with the first public release of VideoScan sales figures for both HD DVD and Blu-ray. The first two weeks' worth of data seem to back up what many predicted — that the Blu-ray-enabled PS3 is helping Sony quickly close the gap with HD DVD, with almost three Blu-ray discs sold for every one HD DVD during the first week of January. HD DVD still leads in overall discs sold since inception, but that lead looks to be quickly dwindling. While they do show a trend, the results from VideoScan are still fairly vague. Why are consumers being denied the information they need to make a considered choice?"

Comments

Haven't we been here before?

[alshithead]

This hurts the consumer on way too many levels. You might as well release music in several formats...Oh, wait a minute...where's my 8 track player? Ooh! I just found my Betamax VCR. Screw this DVD shit, it won't last out the year's end.

It is our duty and our right to pirate movies

[Anonymous Coward]

movies are binary encoded information and
information wants to be free

why is this even an issue to some of you people?

Save yourself some time

[dracocat]

Save yourself some time, no need to read any more comments. Here is a summary of all replies about to follow this article, in no particular order.

• Sony has never won a format war, haven't they learned their lesson? Just look at Beta and MD.
• Sony has had great sucess with their formats, can you say CD?
• There is no reason for anybody to even upgrade past DVD. There is simply no big difference between any new formats and DVD
• I simply will not buy anything from Sony after the whole DRM fiasco
• HD will win out because there will be more HD players on the market because of the cheap HD DVD add on for the Xbox 360
• There will be more Blue Ray players on the market because every PS3 comes with a Blue Ray drive
• Nobody will buy the HD DVD drive addon for the Xbox 360 because it is too expensive
• Nobody will buy the PS3 because it is too expensive
• Blue Ray disks hold more information than HD DVD disks and so Blue Ray will win
• HD DVD disks hold more information than Blue Ray disks so HD DVD will win
• What are you guys talking about? Its all about Nintendo
• Neither format will win because people will be downloading movies from here on our
• The name HD DVD just sounds better than Blue Ray
• The name Blue Ray just sounds better than HD DVD
• Movies these days are worthless I havent watched a movie in 25 years

Hopes this helps shed some light on which format is better.

Re:Save yourself some time

[aardvarkjoe]

You forgot one:

• How did you manage to misspell Blu-ray seven times in a single post when it's in the story title?

Re:Save yourself some time

[feepness]

How do I mod you Insightful, Informative, Flamebait, and Troll all at the same time?

Re:Can I just say

[ThePsion5]

You must not be familiar with Verizon.

Re:Can I just say

[drinkypoo]

I see stupid people... all the time... they walk around like everyone else... they don't even know they're stupid.

In other words

[LordEd]

it's not much of a "win" if you claim victory in the battle, but lose the war.

In other words, "mission accomplished".

Re:being denied information

[Dretep]

and the floor usually isn't sticky. You're obviously watching the wrong genre of movies - you really do need HD-DVD!

Re:Surprised

[king-manic]

Besides, I don't think you give consumers enough credit.

I work in customer service and tech support. I am aware of exactly how much credit I need to give them. Which is slightly more then my dog.