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Originally Posted by Dr. Evil
Fox and Disney are BluRay exclusive. Now Warner is hinting they will do the same. $99 players aren't going to turn the tide for HD. When the best selling HD-DVD disc is being put down by that film's director and he wants it released on BluRay, Paramount is only shooting themselves in the foot.
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both formats remain insignificant and will continue to do so for quite some time. The sales of the best selling Blu-ray and HD-DVD disc is dwarfed by even the worst movie on regular DVD.
Movie sales are about a 60:40 split right now for Blu-ray...certainly not numbers you win a format war with. And there are on going rumblings that Fox and Disney may soon support HD-DVD as well.
The end result is that at this time it is very much a niche market and if it remains a niche market for an extended period of time, there is a good chance manufacturers are going to choose the technology that fits the current factory footprints and can be retrofit into current production technology. That is the huge feather in HD-DVDs cap that may allow them to win the war.