Gus, HD-DVD is dead, accept it. Plus, you need to get out more. My local Video EZY has heaps of Blu-rays, growing by the day. Every time I go to JB Hi-Fi the Blu-ray wall gets bigger and bigger. So do the sales.
I know quite a few people with Blu-ray players, actually. Most of them PS-3s. Geez, I'm the AV geek amongst them, and I haven't even got a player yet! I'm waiting for a standalone that plays MP3 and Divx.
Darren, I own blu ray, the HD DVD avatar reads " The Departed", get it, OK? I stand by what I said, there is none in my area, if that's different in yours, good luck to you.
Ezy DVD is in the hands of the receivers too by the way!
The following article is up until the second quarter of 08 and blu ray according to statistics was 1.35% of the Australian Market at that time. You can say all your mates have got blu ray players and wish as hard as you want, but I don't believe in the last 6 months with or without the current state of the economy blu has gone from 1.35% to 5%, that's just more BDA spin. Also, him mentioning in the article that only 29 titles are available just proves he doesn't know what he is talking about, spin is all this is! All I have ever wanted is factual information, something sorely missing whenever the BDA is involved and I wouldn't trust them as far as I could kick them. Blu ray IS growing, I just don't believe these numbers. (For what it's worth, Big W currently is having a blu sale, I bought Transformers, Eagle Eye and Iron man on Sunday.)
From the article.... "In the second quarter of 2008, 207,841 HD movies were sold, up 7.2 per cent on the first quarter but still only 1.35 per cent of the total DVD movie market, which represented $283.6 million in total sales for the quarter."
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Only a hundred? Look at this!!!
http://www.ezydvd.com.au/blu-ray.zml
Gus, HD-DVD is dead, accept it. Plus, you need to get out more. My local Video EZY has heaps of Blu-rays, growing by the day. Every time I go to JB Hi-Fi the Blu-ray wall gets bigger and bigger. So do the sales.
I know quite a few people with Blu-ray players, actually. Most of them PS-3s. Geez, I'm the AV geek amongst them, and I haven't even got a player yet! I'm waiting for a standalone that plays MP3 and Divx.
Blu-ray is definitely catching on.
Darren, I own blu ray, the HD DVD avatar reads " The Departed", get it, OK?
I stand by what I said, there is none in my area, if that's different in yours, good luck to you.
Ezy DVD is in the hands of the receivers too by the way!
The following article is up until the second quarter of 08 and blu ray according to statistics was 1.35% of the Australian Market at that time. You can say all your mates have got blu ray players and wish as hard as you want, but I don't believe in the last 6 months with or without the current state of the economy blu has gone from 1.35% to 5%, that's just more BDA spin. Also, him mentioning in the article that only 29 titles are available just proves he doesn't know what he is talking about, spin is all this is!
All I have ever wanted is factual information, something sorely missing whenever the BDA is involved and I wouldn't trust them as far as I could kick them. Blu ray IS growing, I just don't believe these numbers.
(For what it's worth, Big W currently is having a blu sale, I bought Transformers, Eagle Eye and Iron man on Sunday.)
From the article....
"In the second quarter of 2008, 207,841 HD movies were sold, up 7.2 per cent on the first quarter but still only 1.35 per cent of the total DVD movie market, which represented $283.6 million in total sales for the quarter."
http://www.news.com.au/technology/story/0,28348,24522714-5014239,00.html