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| by Stan Beer | |
| Tuesday, 12 February 2008 | |
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Page 1 of 2 However, the fact is all studios release movies in DVD which is still by a country mile the biggest selling format. Both Blu-ray and HD DVD players are capable of playing DVD disks and in fact the new generation players significantly upscale the quality of DVD to near high definition. Where HD DVD still has some skin in the game is the low price of its players. Since Toshiba dramatically slashed the prices of its players a couple of weeks ago, HD DVD players selling near US$100 are now cheap enough to be considered an alternative to ordinary DVD players whereas Blu-ray players are not. Many consumers are still at the stage where they could care less whether a particular movie has been released on Blu-ray or HD DVD, so long as it's available on DVD. Many consumers have a sizeable collection of DVD movies and TV series. Knowing that they can significantly improve the quality of these simply by spending around $100 to $150 on a new HD DVD player could be a temptation. Toshiba in its last ditch price slash is hoping that enough consumers will be tempted to buy HD DVD players to force studios and retailers to reconsider dropping the format. So does a recent spike in HD DVD player sales which, according to NPD Group, saw HD DVD hardware bounce back to 35% market share in the second last week of January, signify a renaissance for the format? |
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