HD-DVD claims 60% of dedicated players

[mwgiii]

Also a higher movie attach rate than Blu-ray.

June 11, 2007 - In what would appear to be a weekly tradition now, the HD-DVD Promotions Group is announcing yet more progress for the format in its struggle with Blu-ray. According to the HD-DVD camp, the format now accounts for 60% of all next-gen DVD set-top players sold to this point in time. The figure does not count the PlayStation 3. The group also announced that HD-DVD is achieving a 4 to 1 movie attach rate over Blu-ray, and set a new high for movie sales in May, highlighted by more than 75,000 units sold in the last week of the month.

Last month was apparently a good one for both formats, with actual consumer spending on HD-DVD and Blu-ray combining to $5.2-million, 31% more than the previous combined record.

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[JamesJ]

wonder if they went ahead and included the PS3 in the attach rate, is there a way to find out?

 

[navychop]

Almost meaningless. They could just count high def players with the word "Toshiba" on them.

The PS3 counts, even if sales are declining. And the attach rate is normally of some importance, but not much here.

What counts is sales of discs. And Blu-ray is still outselling HD DVD by about 2 to 1. If they don't change that, they'll be a minor (or former) player. There's still time.