Interesting press release from Warner Brothers studio last week. They were one of the big guys to support HD-DVD and Blue-ray formats. Seems during 08 they will stop HD-DVD and only produced high-def material for distribution using Blue-Ray only! (DVD remains in play for a wee while!)
Why so interesting? 20% of DVD sales in the US of A belong to Warner!
Major victory for the Blue-Ray camp.
I've also seen UK disc retail figures just for November. Blue-ray were outselling HD-DVD discs by a significant factor. Be interesting to see what Decembers figures are like.
So the PS3 is starting to look like a good play (US PS3 console sales show they shipped 1.2M consoles over Christmas period. Looks like Sony are getting back in the race!)
(the image? could only find dull images of blue-ray stuff so this looked fun!)
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I also heard here that some retailers are starting to focus on Blu-Ray more than HD. Be interesting to see what comes out at CES this week and whether we see evidence of further shots being fired on this war.
The other half was asked if she had a blue-ray player by blockbuster on saturday night as some film had all gone on DVD, but they had BR left!! It's all starting to pick up pace!
CES will be interesting once again, though will be interesting to see what happens to the economy this year and if the electronic market gets affected.
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