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Wow, HD-DVD is really coming on strong now.
With only a 3:1 brutal slaughter, Warner must be coming back to HD-DVD. Fox will follow then Disney.
Its over for bluray.
Its time to let Nfinity and Truth Teller gloat.
They are todays real winners.
I'm pretty sure Bourne Supremacy is part of a bundle with the HD DVD...
If so, let's see if they take back their statements about Blu-ray standalones not counting with HDTV purchases...
@xolan99
No, The Bourne Identity is the bundled title. Wouldn't be surprising if hundreds of thousands of people getting a copy of the first movie might result in a fair number of them picking up the sequel.
@ Matthew Berg :
All on the same week?
Doubtful.
BR fanboys, you know what that means, right ? Correct, we can count on new BR studios BOGOs every time a big title comes out on HD DVD. Next BR BOGO : february 19th (American Gangster). Following BR BOGO : february 26th (Beowulf).
Sure Ben conveniently won't be mentioning the BR BOGOs then when the Nielsen numbers come out ;)
John, Who the heck cares how blu-ray got it's numbers or by which sales. You're really a fool for this thinking because number 1. blu-ray won every single week of the year in 2007, BOGO or not. Number 2, who cares if the blu-ray battled hd-dvd with BOGO sales, it worked didn't it? And it got Warner Brothers too, lol. What you're really spitting on was in reality a brilliant strategy. I don't think the Gangster or any hd-dvd title are enough to win a week anymore for hd-dvd, but if they post a BOGO sale for blu-ray, I am right there to buy some blu's!!!!!
@ mntwister,
So let me get this straight. "who cares if the blu-ray battled hd-dvd with BOGO sales, it worked didn't it? And it got Warner Brothers too, lol. What you're really spitting on was in reality a brilliant strategy." But if HD DVD has a BOGO or a half off, it's a clearance sale to get rid of everything before the format dies like everyone keeps saying (when exactly is that "prediction" coming true by the way? It just makes all of you sound dumb), and in fact NOT the same brilliant strategy? O.....K.... That makes no sense at all.... I realize you didn't say that, but a lot of people do. Why the double standard?
In Germany you can get Beowulf on Blu-ray because Warner is distributing it here on a regioncode-free Blu-ray Disc :-)
@mntwister:
"John, Who the heck cares how blu-ray got it's numbers or by which sales. You're really a fool for this thinking because number 1. blu-ray won every single week of the year in 2007, BOGO or not. Number 2, who cares if the blu-ray battled hd-dvd with BOGO sales, it worked didn't it? And it got Warner Brothers too, lol. What you're really spitting on was in reality a brilliant strategy."
Soooo...if HD DVD does it, it's desperation, clearance, firesale, etc. But when Blu manufacturers deeply discounted software (you know, where the money's at) that's brilliant strategy...
I don't doubt that I'll be buying a Blu player within the year, but...damn, you Blu-Ray fanboys are douches.
"I don't think the Gangster or any hd-dvd title are enough to win a week anymore for hd-dvd, but if they post a BOGO sale for blu-ray, I am right there to buy some blu's!!!!!"
Here, I'll use the typical Blu-Ray fanboy spin: BOGOs are a sign they're desperate for sales, because they're still not winning enough people away from DVD. There, I said it. Doesn't make me right, but I said it, so it must be fact, right? Um, I know a guy who told me that and he knows things. Yeah. Chump.
You better get used to HD DVD having several movies constantly in the top 5 with a reasonable market share, because by the time warner turns blue, 1.5 million HD DVD supporters will have no choice but to buy up Paramount and Universal,they aren't all going to magically run out and drop $4-600 on a BR player in any hurrry!
Aren't those 2 studios going to clean up post warner, they have a captive and rapidly growing audience!