The percentage of returned gadgets that have nothing wrong with them.
Of the $13.8 billion worth of returned products in 2007, only 5 percent were because gadgets were actually broken, according to a 2008 study.
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The referenced article is ridiculous: "TCL believes that the CBHD format is actually not competing with the Blu-ray format, since they are addressed to different market segments, mainly due to their different retail price."
So, if I can get The Dark Knight on CBHD for $7 or on BD for $24, these formats aren't in competition because the prices are different? Is BD more 1080p-ish than CBHD?
If Warner really wanted to ramp up sales, they'd revive HD DVD support. I can't tell you how many people I know that bought discs just so their preferred format would 'win'. In a BD only world, things can get pretty boring. Just take a look at the comment count on EngadgetHD for further evidence...
HD-DVD is dead, get over it and move on already sheesh.
Yea, so was DIVIX, bla bla bla...
I know! Look at how boring things got without DIVX around to compete with the DVD format. DVD prices went through the roof. Player prices became outrageously expensive. The price and quality of movies went up and down, respectively.
My god, let's keep around multiple competing formats to stop a repeat of that madness!!!!
[And now we end our post from bizzaro world and return to planet Earth.]
Yeah. Bring back HD-DVD! C'mon Warners.
Boring is good. Now I don't have to worry about which movies will be released on one format or another, I can just assume that every new movie will be released on blu ray and be done with it. I'm still wating for my copy of fear and loathing in las vegas on blu ray by the way..
A bit of HD-DVD misconceptions to clear up. Had HD-DVD won, this technology would still be in the works! It was planned before the format war ended.
Why?
HD-DVD had similar licensing fees to Blu-ray: same codecs, same licensing. Reviving HD-DVD would not change this one iota.
An interesting side note though (regarding hardware)...
Near the end of the format war, Toshiba was going to cut the hardware licensing fees for China in order to get cheap (sub-$99.00) players into the US/JP markets. HD-DVD was already a huge loss for them with their own players. The logic: low prices, more market penetration, win format war, make money back with licensing. But when this planned licensing cut hit the wires, I read several tech/financial blogs wondering how the heck Toshiba planned to succeed financially if they nixed the *only* part of the equation that meant money for them: future licensing for Chinese-made players. Of course, they lost the format war before any of this came to pass, so that question will never be answered.
But don't get this wrong. China still wanted their own format -- *disk* prices being the key here -- and was going forward regardless.
-Pie