Yes but the boxed set is selling better on Blu-ray!

More importantly, on-line sales always skew to HD DVD while in-store favors Blu-ray.

Hmm, I'm starting to worry about my format's chances of surviving. It looks like HD DVD is gaining ground.

I wouldn't hold your breath because HD "might" be doing well on ONE title right now. Put statistics aside for a minute and walk into stores that carry both format. Very simple: 1 or less section for HD-DVD with no one looking at it. Beside it, 2+ sections of BR with many looking at it. Hmmm...I think that says it all.

It wouldn't surprise me to see a major shift late in the first quarter or early in the second quarter of 2008. BR's win is imminent. Its choice of titles, the fact that the PS3 pushed BR and the fact that standard BR players are going sub 399CAN$ (some already are) early in 2008 doesn't leave HD-DVD much hope. Honestly an HD-DVD player is close to the same price as a BR player at Future Shop if you want a decent one with full 1080p functionallity (449$CAN vs 399$CAN for BR - ps3 or 499$ for the Samsung or Sony BR Player). Need I say more...

I have to admit, blu-ray is having alot of problems with it's software as of late. Fox keeps delaying their expensive titles like Independence day and I robot, From Hell, The Fly, Commando, etc. The list goes on. When they do come out, people are mad that some blu-rays won't play on there machines like back in October, it started with the BD+ implementation on Fantastic Four;Silver Surfer and titles after like Day After Tomorrow(over 10 movies). Granted some say it was fixed into the next month. Then the menu's are glitchy and twitch and do not play smoothly on titles such as Spiderman Trilogy, Ratatoulle, Cars, Ultimate Avengers, etc. on some blu-ray machines. Seems like I may have to really consider hd-dvd because the only past problems with them I have heard was some combo discs(which are now discontinued). I want a machine that will play future software titles and play them smoothly. I wouldn't want, for instance, to buy Pirates of the Caribbean 2 and not be able to utilize all the features such as the game, Liar's Dice on some machines which is another problem on the blu manufacturer/software side. I look forward to hd-dvd pricing to have another sale (hopefully soon) and I will pick one up. Currently $100-$250 off of Blu-rays msrp, but with sale it should be even better. Warning, more than half of the earlier blu-rays have codec called mpeg2 I believe, this usually is a disappointment to the movie goer looking to have something in HD. Some look good like Shooter per some, but most do not. Also, hd-dvd has more bits in sound in alot of titles. 1.5mbps vs. 640mbps on blu-ray so another thing for me to consider. I might go both, but until blu-ray can finalize specs and assure their own titles will play in a player I just bought, I will be seeing more from hd-dvd apparently. Cheers and good luck!

Well, it looks like the tide has turned in Blu's favor. The chart you link to in the article (when updated with HDDVD vs Blu Ray) shows Order of the Phoenix rated as #13 on Blu while #21 on HDDVD. So Blu is clearly outselling HDDVD on this title, and the box set on Blu is outselling them both. (Boxed set doesn't show up on HD-DVD for the top 10 of each format).

Funny, it looks like the HD DVD for HP:OOTP has passed Blu-ray in ranking on Amazon again. I wonder if it's from all of the players under the tree?

To the idiot that is impersonating me - HD DVD is a dying format and I know that Blu-ray will wrap up the format war in 2008 with a victory.
If you're going to impersonate me, try and print the moniker correctly you goof.

dobyblue needs a head exam. There is no indication that Blu-Ray is winning nor will they win. All I see is HD DVD gaining ground with great player sales and movie sales. Blu-Ray's downfall will be the FLOP of the PS3 which IS the only thing keeping the Blu-Ray format alive. It should have died once it was released to the public years ago.

I really hope companies start scraping Blu-Ray, they are forcing HD DVD adoption to take longer than it really should, and its common sense that HD DVD will win in the end, so why play mind games with people & their Theatre Rooms?

Blu-ray Disc (BD) is the name of a next-generation optical disc format jointly developed by the
Blu-ray Disc Association (BDA), a group of the world's leading consumer electronics, personal computer
and media manufacturers (including Imation, LG, Verbatim, Philips, Samsung, Sony, TDK and Verbatim).


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