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Sony Set to Market Blu-ray as Winner of Format War

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the self-serving-prophets dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Citing the recent sales numbers, Sony exec David Bishop is claiming that the high-def format war can officially be declared over. With a movie sale ratio of almost 2:1 Blu-ray discs are being declared the victor over rival HD-DVD by Blu-ray supporter Sony. 'And yet while all agree that it was a strong month for Blu-ray, opinion is split on whether the surge in sales is an indicator of stronger user adaption of Blu-ray compared to HD DVD, or simply a reflection of the larger number of new Blu-ray titles that hit the market over the month -- 25 new Blu-ray titles were released in January, compared to just 11 titles on HD DVD for the same period.'"

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  1. Nice of them .... by gstoddart · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Nice of Sony to declare themselves the winner. Now we can all get on with out lives.

    Seriously, is this the same Sony who last week said the fact that they're being outsold by Nintendo doesn't mean they're losing, it means we shouldn't be counting Nintendo.

    I'm fairly confident a company can't unilaterally declare themselves the winner in a 6 month old format war. It doesn't work like that.

    Oh well, it's their Kool-Aid, they can drink it all they want. :-P

    Cheers

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  2. Re:Number of movies by LiquidCoooled · · Score: 5, Insightful

    If thats the case, divx avi movies rule the world ;)

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  3. Re:Number of movies by Andy+Dodd · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Number of movies released in a particular month != total number of movies available

    I believe that prior to this particular month, HD-DVD was consistently ahead of Blu-Ray. Declaring a winner based on a single months' worth of statistics (especially at this early point when both formats are in their infancy) is utterly idiotic.

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  4. Re:Number of movies by SnarfQuest · · Score: 5, Insightful

    But, how many new VHS movie titles were released last month?

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  5. Re:Number of movies by pluther · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I think the problem with this is, that most people don't know there's a format war going on.

    Those that do are the ones paying attention, and they probably won't be fooled by the marketing hype declaring Sony the winner.

    25 titles release in a month, compared to 11 for the competition, is far too small of a number to actually draw any kind of conclusion. Sure, it's more than twice as much, but with numbers this small impressive-sounding percentages are easy to come by.

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