A Toshiba rep defending the statements from another Toshiba rep? Shocking!
Of course, Van Wynendaele's not telling the truth either. The vouchers aren't for free movies, they're discounts, and you still have to buy them in the first place. At most, you could get maybe 4-5 movies, well under the attach rates that HD DVD claims. It also looks like he's discounting the worries of neutral studios and the fact that despite supposedly going for half the price, player sales are not stimulating software sales. The latest estimates put HD DVD's 1-week sales when nothing is released at around 5,000. That's barely 1 disc per standalone. Even when the same drought applies to Blu-ray, they sell more than 4 times as much movies as HD DVD, and that's with lowball estimates of 22% of PS3s used mostly for movies.
At least he didn't lie outright like Universal did and claim that the Amazon sale (specifically)--that didn't start until March--was responsible for being outsold 2:1 and by 125,000 movies in February.
“Getting too close completely blurred what we saw to the point of incomprehension, but again, this shows a whole heap of potential that's fascinating to us.”
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A Toshiba rep defending the statements from another Toshiba rep? Shocking!
Of course, Van Wynendaele's not telling the truth either. The vouchers aren't for free movies, they're discounts, and you still have to buy them in the first place. At most, you could get maybe 4-5 movies, well under the attach rates that HD DVD claims. It also looks like he's discounting the worries of neutral studios and the fact that despite supposedly going for half the price, player sales are not stimulating software sales. The latest estimates put HD DVD's 1-week sales when nothing is released at around 5,000. That's barely 1 disc per standalone. Even when the same drought applies to Blu-ray, they sell more than 4 times as much movies as HD DVD, and that's with lowball estimates of 22% of PS3s used mostly for movies.
At least he didn't lie outright like Universal did and claim that the Amazon sale (specifically)--that didn't start until March--was responsible for being outsold 2:1 and by 125,000 movies in February.