You can't compare DVD-A/SACD to HD-DVD/BD. The markets are completely different. DVD-A/SACD was trumped by MP3s because people wanted to download music for free and fit as many songs as possible on their iPods. No market for DVD-A/SACD. People want HD video. They want to fill their expensive HDTVs with as many pixels as possible. The market is there.
Software sales are misleading. Not all movies are released on both formats (very few actually), so you can't make direct comparisons as a generalization. Hardware sales are more direct, and represent the future market. Though BD has skewed those numbers by saying the PS3 is a BD player even though it could only be used for games. HD-DVD is nearing the $200.00 price point much faster than BD, and HD-DVD has a "feature complete" platform, while BD has yet to get profile 1.1 player on the shelves let alone its "feature complete" profile 2.0.
HD-DVD also has a trump card in that they could choose to release all movies as DVD/HD-DVD combo discs (technical issues solved of course ) at a DVD price point. Game over if that happens. IMO of course. :B
Software sales are misleading. Not all movies are released on both formats (very few actually), so you can't make direct comparisons as a generalization. Hardware sales are more direct, and represent the future market. Though BD has skewed those numbers by saying the PS3 is a BD player even though it could only be used for games. HD-DVD is nearing the $200.00 price point much faster than BD, and HD-DVD has a "feature complete" platform, while BD has yet to get profile 1.1 player on the shelves let alone its "feature complete" profile 2.0.
HD-DVD also has a trump card in that they could choose to release all movies as DVD/HD-DVD combo discs (technical issues solved of course ) at a DVD price point. Game over if that happens. IMO of course. :B
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