Re: Since WB went BluRay Exclusive, Any SD Fans Going Over?
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| Thanks for replying but I don't buy your cynicism. Firstly, the 3:1 (closer to 2.5:1, but whatever) sales ratio is one commonly supported by all media channels I've come in contact with, and is even a number with which I haven't seen the HD-DVD camp take public issue. Secondly, it's not like Toshiba hasn't run plenty of HD-DVD freebie giveaways themselves... |
It's a sales ratio that sounds mightily impressive -- until you realize the discrepency in copies sold is in the thousands, not tens of thousands or millions. Sales on both formats are so slow that they continue to not be a trickle in comparison to regular DVD.
And sorry, but you haven't been paying attention if you think the HD-DVD giveaways have been comparable to the BD "BOGOs". The Blu Ray promos have been running nonstop since October and were run on-and-off even before that -- HD-DVD didnt even run a sale until Christmas time, months after Sony started their endless promotions. You have to be incredibly naive if you don't think all those sales ratios weren't goosed up by those promos to some major degree.
