Love it or hate it, it appears that the gap between Blu-Ray and HD-DVD continues to increase despite the low (but temporarily decent) sales of Sony’s Playstation 3 system. According to a study by Home Media research, Blu-Ray is now selling twice as many movies as the HD-DVD format is:
The organization’s report estimates about 1.6 million copies of Blu-Ray movies sold between the start of the year and July 1st, with HD DVD only reaching 795,000.
This format war is long from over, but just as I anticipated, Blu-Ray is slowly becoming the dominant format. It’s the Betamax Versus VHS all over again but, ironically, it appears that this time Sony is on the winning side.
[Via Electronista]
HD-DVD will win.
That is all.
:)
Blu-Ray ownz. We all know it. Its just a long road to victory.
The only thing that makes me a little negative towards Blu-Ray is that some have region coding.
I’m from the UK where we get DVD’s months (sometimes never) after the USA (at a higher cost as well), so most of my discs I get from America. If this stupid outdated region coding is enforced it will make me have to take less legal routes to get my movies or stick only with HD-DVD.
The’ve also made most of Asia the same region as America so the rest of the movies I buy will lock me out as well.