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HD DVD Player Sales Grind To a Halt

Posted by kdawson on from the it-was-that-bunker-video-did-it dept.

Lucas123 writes "While the news may fall under the 'Duh' category, it's still relatively shocking how quickly the death knell for HD DVD player sales came on after Warner Bros. announced they were dropping dual hi-def DVD format support in order to back only Blu-ray. According to a Computerworld story, the week after Warner's announcement, sales of HD DVD players dropped to 1,758, down from 14,558 players the week before. In contrast, consumers bought 21,770 Blu-ray Disc players, up from 15,257 the previous week."

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  1. Take with a grain of salt or two... by Wdomburg · · Score: 5, Informative

    The folks at NPD have already said not to make too much of these numbers. Not only do they reflect a single week of data immediately following the Warner announcement and prior to Toshiba cutting prices in half, there were also free Blu-ray player promotions from Panasonic, Sharp and Sony. Easy to "sell" a lot of units when the price tag is $0.

  2. Re:"blue ray player" totals by Troed · · Score: 5, Informative

    Correct me if I'm wrong

    OK.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blu-ray_Disc

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