Further Evidence the Momentum is Changing?

There's a lot more movies to talk about in BD now than the past. I think fundamentally, the negative atmosphere of mudslinging made the normal public who only wants to watch talk think movies stay away.


If we only talk about movies, pink rectangles or what nots, I think people will feel better about posting and asking questions.


Before, ask a question and you get bombarded with people trying to convince you to go to their side. It was getting downright irritating to read these posts.


FWIW, hdgamedb.com has very interesting tools. I was tracking the sales last 14 days of the dual releases (both HDDVD and BD) of several titles, WTC, Superman Returns etc. The statistics you get on these sales rankings and how they are trending is quite consistent.


Even Warner titles that are released first on HDDVD and later on BD are pretty much showing this behavior. The only one that bucked the trend was Ant Bully, everything else seemed to be pointing in one direction.


--- And this in spite of BD titles consistently being out of stock at amazon.com.

He meant that more people are viewing the BD software forums than HDdvd software forums. Makes sense. There is alot more software coming out on BD than HDdvd.

Also interestingly there is a thread titled,


HDdvd owners: What will you do now that CES is over?


with options like, Switch to BD, buy both or stay the course.


No similar thread in the BD forums asking what owners will do because I'll bet all the BD owners are grinning like kids on Xmas morning with all the new software announcements.



but what do I know...?


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Originally Posted by Dave Mack /forum/post/0


me too!


And bias, war aside. I am honestly surprised. I was pretty nervous jumping in at this time. I have owned a Betamax, a DAT machine. I know what it's like. I really thought Universal would announce a helluva lot of awesome titles that would make me insanely covet-y. I really honestly did. I don't know what they're thinking and if I were an HDdvd owner, (and I almost was if that Adam/Eve bogus offer had gone through!) I would seriously be asking what's up? Content is king after all...

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I agree that "Content Is King." I mean when you really look at us AVS member who debate this format war, we are all basically the same kind of people, we love all things Audio and Video.


The HD-DVD supporters feel that greater Hardware support and a slow and steady release of software will win the war.


The Blu-ray supporters feel that greater Software support and a blizkrieg of software releases will win war.


I personally subscribe to the latter because history repeats itself and software has always been the deciding factor. I do not see history changing this time around. Blu-ray just has too much Exclsuive Studio Support.


~Josh