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The Sony CEO of America himself said that the format war between HD DVD and Blu-ray is a stalemate and is even discussing the possibilities of a loss between the two.
That is unbelievable news being that Sony for about a year now has said that HD DVD is dead and is outselling it remarkably, now a sudden change in tone?
This probably results from the 90,000 stand alone HD DVD players that were sold last weekend for $99. That alone prooves that people don't care what technology they adopt so long as they can be cheap and affordable. That 90k is more units sold than the best selling Blu-ray stand-alone player and there should be more deals from the HD DVD camp this holiday season.
Sony has said that a Blu-ray player will highly unlikely drop below $400 this year, so that in comparison is a big price jump. The Playstation 3 is the best selling Blu-ray player, but the majority of the people don't even know its a Blu-ray player and those who do aren't Blu-ray disc purchasers. That isn't to say thats the case for all PS3 consumers, I personally bought a PS3 player almost entirely as a Blu-ray player alone having no interest in any of the current games and there are a lot of people who do the same but the fact is that the majority of consumers aren't in comparison to how stand alone HD DVD players are outselling stand alone Blu-ray players, all of which are high definition movie enthusiasts and plan to buy movies and not games.
Blu-ray outsells HD DVD because it has all those PS3's installed into households and when a couple Blu-ray discs are sold in a multiplier of all those consoles that's a lot of movies. With all these stand alone HD DVD players being sold though which are for people interested in movies only, and Sonythemselves are now beginning to have doubt, something is definately up.
I support both formats though I prefer HD DVD having all the specs finalized.