HD-DVD wins!
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- Boz0
well it's 100 mill. dollars for players in retail Q4 2007. That's 2 million drives. The total amount is $300 million and it will ship probably around 6 million players by the end of 2008. So yeah, I can be pretty confident in saying Walmart takes a format and that format will win.
It's nighty night to blu-ray unless they somehow come out with $299 blu-ray which is most likely NOT going to happen as they can't really lose that much money.
What I see though is companies like Samsung, Pioneer and Panasonic going neutral. Actually Samsung is already doing by building a new HD-DVD capable player.
You have to understand why everyone supported Blu-Ray is not because it was better format, it was because Sony said "We promise to destroy HD-DVD with PS3 right off the bat and you will make awesome money on peripherals as we can push them at higher cost as new technology". That's why they signed up.
But as time passed they saw that this was not the case. 600k PS3 consoles sold? BAD!
Almost all studios went neutral except Sony, MGM and Fox and MGM is also owned by Sony so no surprise there.
Fox delayed all of their upcoming Blu-Ray releases, for what they said was a glitch in Blu-Ray's DRM system and they are waiting for BD+ Java implementation. Of course, this was said before Walmart announcement but now it all makes sense. They found out about the Walmart move and are probably thinking about going neutral right about now.
It's over my friend. With 2 million STAND-ALONE players for $199 and about 250k units by Toshiba+MS HD-DVD player this was is over. Not to mention that now, with this, MS will most definitely see HD-DVD has bigger chance now and might even consider embedding HD-DVD drive. Nintedo was hesitant about using HD-DVD drive in their Wii but they were still rumouring that a new Wii will come out end of this year with HD-DVD built in for the same price.
As I said, it's pretty much over IMO.