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NPD Group Says "Wait! HD-DVD Isn't Dead Yet"
The NPD group, owners of the not-quite-as-popular-as-they-had-hoped HD-DVD format, attempted to battle back against the tide of "naysayers" who claim that the format war is over and have declared Blu-Ray Disc the winner. "While select articles have implied that HD-DVD as a format is doomed and the sky is falling for the format's supporters, the NPD Group this afternoon reinforced that sales results from a single week do not necessarily indicate a trend, and that the week in question had several intriguing variables that have gone unreported."
People like to complain that Warner stabbed HDDVD folks in the back, but this is a true stab in the back.
These guys know it's over and are trying to squeeze the last few bucks out of this things before it's all over, so they put out crap like this to get a few suckers.
It's bad for the industry, for their partners (except Microsoft), for the consumer, to let this format war last any longer, and it's over, so let's move on.
These folks are starting to embarrass themselves.
I dislike Sony because it's Japanese, we don't have many of our goods sold there but they sell a ton here.
I don't like being forced into buying a new player every time they want to update their specs. hd-dvd had those features at launch, why didn't blu-ray ? At this point I think hd-dvd is the lesser of 2 evils at the moment.
This package Does Not Contain a Winner
NPD realizes they are irrelevant now, and no one is going to want to pay attention to them now that the format war has obviously ended.
They, like MS, have ulterior motives to having this wasteful format war continue. They are now a disgrace.
I'm not touching either HD DVD or Blu-Ray. One has to be completely dead before I invest in the other.
I'll stick with my DVD Upconvert player for now (http://dvdupconvert.wordpress.com/).