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You can total up all the movies sold for HD-DVD and Blu-Ray since the formats came out and that number is surpassed by the single week sales of mediocre regular old DVD movie.

The formats can battle all they likes but the fact still very much remains they are BOTH losing the war to regular old DVD.. In fact they are getting absolutely hammered. Very few people care about viewing a movie in HD. The only care about the movie being good.

But a war isn't won this early. The movie attachment rate for HD-DVD is far higher than Blu-Ray. The number of stand alone HD-DVD players is greater indicating that when the public does go out looking for a moview player and thikns about making the switch they are leaning towards the cheaper technology. I wonder how many Blu-ray movies would have sold if PS3 owners actually had some games to spend money on. I'm guessing the movie totals would be much much less. You also have to keep in mind a couple of things:

-that the movie studio with the largest back catalogue of movies in the world is supporting HD-DVD. We never hear about it because it's a European studio but outside of North America that may have a big impact.

-the DVD players in peoples home just took over the number of VHS players in the US this past year. Getting people to change and commit to a change isn't easy.

- there are 150 million DVD players in the US alone. Blu-Ray even counting the PS3 and HD-DVD have a tremendously long ways to even be a competitor with DVD.

And to be perfectly honest I think the major competitor to these formats in a few short years will be digital delivery HD content.