OFcourse, what can you expect? IF there are no good HD DVD titles around, what sales figures are their users going to generate?
That's
point number 1:
Fewer Titles.
Blu ray's higher sales figures for January and February 2007 are inaccurate indicators of market preference simply because there were more Blu ray releases during that period.
A more accurate indicator would arise if we can compare sales figures for a single title that was released on both formats. On this score, Blu ray still sold more discs. In February 2007, The Departed sold about 20,000 units for Blu ray and about 13,000 units for HD-DVD.
http://www.highdefdigest.com/news/show/514Does this mean that Blu ray already won? Of course not. We have to go to
point number 2:
Free Vouchers.
At a Blu ray press conference at the CeBIT trade show, BDA chairman Frank Simonis said, "Within three years it will just be Blu-ray," since Blu-ray discs were out-selling HD DVDs by 3:1 in the US.
Olivier Van Wynendaele, Deputy General manager of HD DVD at Toshiba Ltd said the claims were "propaganda" and then proceeded to dispute them point by point in a call to tech.co.uk.
Van Wynendaele argues that the reason for the disparity is that new owners of PlayStation 3 games console are simply redeeming free Blu-ray movie vouchers given to them by Sony that they have to exchange at retail stores, thus distorting genuine sales figures.
http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/multimedia/display/20070202090024.htmlhttp://www.tech.co.uk/home-entertainment/high-definition/news/toshiba-rejects-blu-ray-victory-claim?articleid=943604279And that's the hot issue these days in the BD vs. HD-DVD war.
Let the BDA and Sony answer. Is it true that free BD vouchers are bundled with PS3 purchases? Were the Blu ray discs that were purchased via free vouchers included in Blu ray sales figures?
Most importantly, why not just give away the discs for free as HD-DVD did. Why does it have to be a free BD movie voucher redeemable at retail stores?
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Here's another way to interpret sales figures:
http://www.betanews.com/article/Bluray_Disc_Sales_Surpass_HD_DVD/1172267610