The DVD sales are 94%,Blu-ray has 62% sales & HD-DVD has 41% sales.
I think DVD will win the format war.
2007-12-05 10:02:51 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Consumer Electronics ➔ Home Theater
I think once the price of HD-DVD players falls they'll win out. I'd like it to be blu-ray but I just don't see it happening at least for the time being. I think the general progression would be to go to HD-DVD first then to blu-ray. Not the sudden jump.
2007-12-05 10:11:08 · answer #1 · answered by anw122 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
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2016-10-25 12:32:19 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You are comparing numbers incorrectly.
Sales are actually about 95% DVD, 3% Blu-ray and 2% HD DVD.
And yes I think Blu-Ray and HD DVD will remain niche formats with maximum sales of 10-15%.
The eventual "winner" in the format battle to see who replaces DVD will most likely be on-line media. Think CD (analogous to DVD), think SACD vs DVD-A as the competing HD audio formats (analogous to HD DVD and Blu-ray), and then think what won the audio realm ... MP3.
There will be arguments that downloadable HD video isn't going to happen because bandwidth doesn't exist to support it. And if we are discussing 1080p downloads I'd agree, but most people will be happy with 720p and this is much more feasible, particularly with further advances in codecs to allow lower bandwidth.
The audio world proved consumers value convenience over quality (think MP3), and the same will happen for video.
Blu-ray and/or HD DVD may survice as a high quality (and higher priced) alternative to download and DVD (which will still exist for a long time to come). Think Criterion DVDs vs regular.
Anyway .. interesting question.
2007-12-05 10:27:05 · answer #3 · answered by agb90spruce 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Really, DVD isn't in competition against HD-DVD and Blu-ray... one of those will replace it as the standard video media.
Sales numbers are very similar to years ago when VHS accounted for 90%+ and DVD and Divix and such were fighting it out to become the format to succeed VHS.
We are closing in on the change over to HD broadcast signal in the US... even now due to this we are seeing mostly HD televisions. With the capability of these screens to display higher resolution, it only makes sense that people will seek out devices capable of displaying this.
Since DVD cannot, and the new formats can... one of those will win. And the newer formats are more attractive too since they maintain legacy compatibility with DVD.
Oh... and just for the record, your numbers add up to 197%? Doesn't make too much sense.
2007-12-05 10:14:08 · answer #4 · answered by Paul S 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
The next step in home theater will be HD. There won't be any going back to an old format. DVD will be around for a while but it won't beat out a hi def format.
2007-12-06 07:31:11 · answer #5 · answered by general_jimbo 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋