Blu-ray and HD DVD the Battle Continues

info@santry.com — Sun, 17 Dec 2006 05:00:00 GMT

Here's a write up on the Blu-ray versus HD DVD battle that is currently brewing. As I wrote previously, make no doubt about it, this is a war, for the next media player that is going to be sitting on your entertainment center in the years to come.

This article points out that Sony released the Blu-ray support in their PS3 as part of the console. Microsoft on the other hand released an add-on to the Xbox 360 that provides HD DVD support. And that 200,000 consumers purchased the PS3 versus the 42,000 that purchased the HD DVD add-on. The writer makes the point that all though this would appear to be good news for Blu-ray, the Blu-ray movies to go along with it aren't selling as well as the HD DVD movies. Which makes sense since the folks who are buying the HD DVD add-on for the Xbox 360 are doing so in order to view the movies, many consumers who purchased the PS3 may not be aware of what Blu-ray is and purchased it for gaming.

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