Warner Home Video’s defection from the HD DVD camp may have put a damper on hardware sales,” Thomas K. Arnold reports for The Hollywood Reporter.
“In the week since the studio’s surprise early-January announcement that after May it will support only the rival Blu-ray Disc format, sales of HD DVD players ground to a virtual halt, giving Blu-ray hardware a whopping 93 percent sales advantage, according to data from the NPD Group,” Arnold reports.
“According to raw retail data collected by NPD, consumers bought just 1,758 HD DVD players the week of January 12, down from 14,558 players the week before. In contrast, consumers bought 21,770 Blu-ray Disc machines, up from 15,257 the previous week,” Arnold reports.
“NPD tracks point-of-sale data from major U.S. retailers that collectively account for about two-thirds of consumer electronics hardware sales,” Arnold reports.
Full article here.
I want to be able to write to Blu-ray.
I want a Blu-Ray burner in my Mac Pro.
How many people do video editing on the Mac Pro? Final Cut is wonderful stuff but it is a PITA (pain in the butt) to not be able to burn your HD project to a blu-ray disc.
And regarding just downloading HD videos… Let’s say you buy 10 movies at about 30GB each. That’s 300GB. Fine, use an external hard drive. 10 more movies and you have 600GB. Pretty soon you’re up in the TB. How many external hard drives do you want to buy just to hold your movies? And how about letting a friend borrow your disc?
I declared HD DVD dead two weeks ago. Catch up folks!
;-Derek
Why isn’t BlueRay offered on Macs?
Two words for you.
DVD-Ram.
Maybe one word, whatever.
BlueRays DRM is far more restrictive? Considering it will only play on a BlueRay drive anyway, I don’t think it matters. A casette tape has some bad ass DRM these days.
Danny B.: BlueRays DRM is far more restrictive? Considering it will only play on a BlueRay drive anyway, I don’t think it matters. A casette tape has some bad ass DRM these days.
When you’re trying to play a BlueRay disk on your computer or when you’re trying to play it on a computer screen without DRM built in (HDMI/HDCP), the difference becomes quite obvious…