Blu-ray kicking HD DVD with a lead of 85:15

  • Posted January 17th, 2008 at 17:17 EDT by Kees Mackenbach
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According to Nielsen, which weekly reports hi-def sales, the Blu-ray movie sales outsold the HD-DVD movie sales with a lead of 85:15 in the week ending January 13th. This is the first full week after Warner Brothers announced they would start to support Blu-ray exclusively starting June this year.

In 2007 the Blu-ray movie sales outsold the HD-DVD movie sales by a margin of 64:36. And in the first week of this year, Blu-ray outsold HD-DVD 65:35.

The best sold hi-def movie this time is 3:10 to Yuma, which is an exclusive Blu-ray title. Last week it was Resident Evil: Extinction, also an exclusive Blu-ray title. The best sold HD-DVD was The Kingdom, which only sold 10% as many copies as 3:10 to Yuma. None of the HD-DVD movies made it in the top 10 last week.

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  1. Jacksbak | Lovingit07

    • 5:19pm GMT - January 17th, 2008
    • 1

    My god cant Toshiba admit defeat and abandon HD-DVD we can all see the clear winner.

  2. D3v1lwqer23 | Lovingit07

    • 5:22pm GMT - January 17th, 2008
    • 2

    well here we go, kicking Toshiba while they are down.  Great news for the BD camp!

  3. G-Code260

    • 5:28pm GMT - January 17th, 2008
    • 3

    In the words of Mr. Burns " excellent "

  4. NoStop

    • 5:34pm GMT - January 17th, 2008
    • 4

    yeah toshiba guys are probably ripping the last few hairs left on top of theire brain.

    good job by sony and blu-ray .

  5. galaxyman14 | Apollo15

    • 5:34pm GMT - January 17th, 2008
    • 5

    Toshiba's in denial.

  6. ldksparda21 | Karamo

    • 5:37pm GMT - January 17th, 2008
    • 6

    with news like that Paramount and Universal must be scratching their heads

  7. gingo | gingo

    • 5:40pm GMT - January 17th, 2008
    • 7

    psn id: gingo... wow it really is time for hd dvd to pack up their bags, the future is blu!!!!!!

  8. Carl | almighty-slayer

    • 5:41pm GMT - January 17th, 2008
    • 8

    Blu rocks. HD DVD may aswell bend over and prepare to be r*ped by every member of the BDA.

  9. chimmy

    • 5:45pm GMT - January 17th, 2008
    • 9

    no...the future is neither.

  10. stennex | stennex

    • 5:48pm GMT - January 17th, 2008
    • 10

    HD-DVD got Reared by Blu!

  11. NightStalker

    • 5:55pm GMT - January 17th, 2008
    • 11

    looks like HD-DVD is just about down for the count...but can Blu-ray beat DVD?

  12. Nitsu78 | Nitsu

    • 6:31pm GMT - January 17th, 2008
    • 12

    This will be the NEW generations version of the beta-max issue... Instead of us bringing up beta, the younger gerations will bring up HD-DVD. LOL

  13. Oddface | Oddface

    • 6:32pm GMT - January 17th, 2008
    • 13

    Good. We only need one HD format.

  14. Mecha_Daddy | mecha_daddy

    • 6:55pm GMT - January 17th, 2008
    • 14

    Kick 'em while they're down.

  15. Uncool | Admodistrator

    • 7:23pm GMT - January 17th, 2008
    • 15

    Not bad, can't wait for more good blu-ray news.

  16. luis123 | espinlh

    • 7:32pm GMT - January 17th, 2008
    • 16

    cool when will Toshiba give up

  17. shaka | Shaka

    • 7:34pm GMT - January 17th, 2008
    • 17

    Its already dead.

  18. Lp47PS3 | Lp47

    • 7:52pm GMT - January 17th, 2008
    • 18

    good news but im going to go listen to the new Insomniac Games podcast!!! Resistance 2 baby.

  19. Silencer

    • 7:55pm GMT - January 17th, 2008
    • 19

    HD-DV Who? The Future bright the futre is blu.

  20. Xdeth | Xdeth

    • 8:00pm GMT - January 17th, 2008
    • 20

    The sooner we get this stupid war over and blu gets the crown, the sooner we can have Transformers on blu-ray!!!

  21. MatrixSixaxis

    • 8:41pm GMT - January 17th, 2008
    • 21

    HD-DVD - give up now while still losing....or give up later and lose everything!!!  A loss in sales now is better than a MAJOR BIG LOSS later in the very near future!!!  Checkmate!

  22. JMelillo57 | jmelillo57

    • 8:41pm GMT - January 17th, 2008
    • 22

    wow that is a beat down

  23. wocyob

    • 9:29pm GMT - January 17th, 2008
    • 23

    hd-dvd needs to GTFO..they know they lost so why do they stay around...its not like they lost a battle they lost the damn war

  24. kidkotic2001 | hotshot2001

    • 9:36pm GMT - January 17th, 2008
    • 24

    man when will this end

  25. djduke316 | DJDuke316

    • 10:25pm GMT - January 17th, 2008
    • 25

    3:10 is awesome on Blu btw

  26. killercop | killercop

    • 1:47am GMT - January 18th, 2008
    • 26

    Pwned!

  27. frank_magnet | Frank_Magnt

    • 5:15am GMT - January 18th, 2008
    • 27

    Think the HD-DVD camp should give up the ghost!

    If only Paramount would see sense and use their 'back-up clause' to come back to blu-ray it'd all be over.

  28. princevegeta1980

    • 5:57am GMT - January 18th, 2008
    • 28

    what would really be cool is a price cut for bd, 25-30euros for one film is alot, then even dvd will sell less than bd

  29. SolsticeZero | SolsticeZero

    • 8:16am GMT - January 18th, 2008
    • 29

    Toshiba just needs to give up. Blu-ray has won and that's not going to change

  30. Lumute | Lumute

    • 9:03am GMT - January 18th, 2008
    • 30

    Isn't it easier to just say that blue ray sold 5.6 times more than HD-DVD? or 5.6:1??????

    And please don't tell me it is because of the decimals, it is much easier to mentally compare 5.6:1 than 85:15... this seems like just a way to make it seems like a lot more than it actually is... although 5.6:1 is a lot....

  31. Muzikguy | Muzikguy

    • 9:36am GMT - January 18th, 2008
    • 31

    I love it! Now if Toshiba would just give in and stop selling $150 HDDVD players, maybe the war would be over.

  32. InfernoReaper | GrimDarkling

    • 3:30pm GMT - January 18th, 2008
    • 32

    Toshiba is standing on the finish line of a Nascar race and the cars are rounding the final corner.

  33. psn_frov | frov

    • 5:02pm GMT - January 18th, 2008
    • 33

    Tsk Tsk Toshiba, admit defeat already

  34. The Cleaner

    • 4:44am GMT - January 22nd, 2008
    • 34

    Awesome.  Can't wait!

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