Blu-ray Dominates Disc Sales Chart Post-Warner Announcement
Thu Jan 17, 2008 at 03:00 PM ET
Tags: Disc Sales, Industry Trends (all tags)
The Blu-ray camp took a decisive lead in disc sales for the week ending January 13th, the first full week following Warner's announcement that it would abandon its HD DVD support.
Though Blu-ray has outsold HD DVD in overall disc sales by a factor of nearly 2:1 since the start of 2007, last week saw the largest gulf between the two rival formats yet, with Blu-ray commanding an 85% share of all high-def discs sold.
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Home Media Magazine is reporting that of the top ten high-def discs sold on either format, not a single HD DVD disc made the list, with the top-selling HD DVD disc ('The Kingdom') moving only one tenth as many units as the best selling Blu-ray title, '3:10 to Yuma.'
While it's too soon to tell whether Warner's announcement had a direct effect on Blu-ray's stronger-than-ever disc sales lead, HD DVD had been holding steady with a relatively strong 39% share of high-def disc sales in the last weeks of the 2007 holiday shopping season.
HD DVD正面临着众叛亲离的境地,这一次宣布放弃该格式的是成人制片商Digital Playground。
Digital Playground在此前曾推出过25部左右的HD DVD标题,引领着成人娱乐的高清步伐,而成人影视行业也被看作是新的格式取得成功的重要因素之一。
HD DVD在成人电影行业有着不小的优势,尤其是索尼拒绝这一类内容以BD格式来发行。
然而,索尼还是改变了主意,在去年时就允许Digital Playground发行BD格式,而目前BD已经在格式之战中占据了统治地位, Digital Playground加入了华纳兄弟、新线和HBO的行列, 宣布开始独占支持BD,在好莱坞一线制片商方面,HD DVD目前的支持者只剩下环球和派拉蒙了,而关于后者要转投BD的流言也是沸沸扬扬。 作者: zafm0861 时间: 2008-1-19 10:49