Yeah. Despite a real price advantage HD DVD only managed to roughly split the standalone player market with Blu-ray. And since Toshiba accounts for nearly the entire HD DVD standalone market, that means they alone can claim nearly 50% of the HD player market. The Blu-ray camp splits the pie more ways.
Sounds impressive when it isn't in context. When you consider that they had a major price advantage, including $99 sales, and didn't manage to take a significant sales lead - that's not so great. And that still ignores all PS3s. I'd never count *all* PS3s as BD players, but counting none of them is equally invalid. I'm one of the people who owns a PS3 and uses it primary for movies. I own 30-40 BD titles, I own 3 games. (Well, one of those is The Orange Box, so it has a few games in there.)
If lowered prices - even lower than the new reduction - didn't help HD DVD take a decisive lead during the peak shopping season, I don't see this new reduction helping it take the lead during what is normally the slowest shopping season of the year.
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Yeah. Despite a real price advantage HD DVD only managed to roughly split the standalone player market with Blu-ray. And since Toshiba accounts for nearly the entire HD DVD standalone market, that means they alone can claim nearly 50% of the HD player market. The Blu-ray camp splits the pie more ways.
Sounds impressive when it isn't in context. When you consider that they had a major price advantage, including $99 sales, and didn't manage to take a significant sales lead - that's not so great. And that still ignores all PS3s. I'd never count *all* PS3s as BD players, but counting none of them is equally invalid. I'm one of the people who owns a PS3 and uses it primary for movies. I own 30-40 BD titles, I own 3 games. (Well, one of those is The Orange Box, so it has a few games in there.)
If lowered prices - even lower than the new reduction - didn't help HD DVD take a decisive lead during the peak shopping season, I don't see this new reduction helping it take the lead during what is normally the slowest shopping season of the year.