The break neck speed at which both sides of the HD disk format release press releases its is hard to know who is really winning in the HD format war. Both sides have huge exclusive arrangements in place with major studios and are slinging propaganda and dizzying amounts of numbers at us like crazy.
Blu-Ray, which is backed by Sony, has the managed to snag exclusive support from Its own Picture Studios, Disney, and 20th Century Fox. HD-DVD, developed by Toshiba and NEC, has countered with exclusive support from Universal, Paramount, MTV, and DreamWorks. While several studios like Warner Brothers has chosen to stay neutral and offer movies on both format.
Toshiba the leading maker of HD-DVD players has had entry level devices for several hundred dollars for a while now and they are selling pretty well. This last week alone with the 99 dollar specials they are rumored to have sold almost 90,000 units. While Sony's Blu-Ray players have consistently run several hundred dollars more than their counter parts on the HD-DVD side.
The format war can be frustrating to watch as good movie are popping up on both sides making each side attractive for that given week, but the one bright part is that those of us still watching from the side lines as they duke it out are the clear winners.
Nothing but an all out life or death, winner take all battle, such as the one they are waging right now could have ever driven prices for players and disks down nearly as quickly as we have seen.
Posted
Nov 07 2007, 06:58 PM
by
Josh Phillips
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