HD DVD Player Sales Grind To a Halt

Posted by kdawson on Friday January 25, 2008 @05:07AM 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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Re:I bought a PS3, and only for HD movies -nt by somersault · 2008-01-25 05:51 · Score: 0, Redundant

You must have a lot of cash to burn!

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Who cares? by DogDude · 2008-01-25 07:22 · Score: 0, Redundant

Again, another "Standards format war" that means nothing to consumers. In a year or so, every DVD player will support both of the high-def formats, along with all older formats. It always happens. Snore.

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