Blu-Ray Vs. HD-DVD - Contagem de Espingardas

Joe-Fagundes · Post by **Joe-Fagundes** » November 27th, 2007, 1:29 pm

Just when we started to expect the Nielsen VideoScan numbers courtesy of Home Media Magazine on Fridays, they mix it up and release 'em on Monday -- we'd bet the holiday is to blame. The other curve ball this week, is the lack of a top ten list -- which we also hope is also due to a holiday and not a permanent deal. The lack of a list makes this a hard post, when only faced with the market share numbers. What we can tell is that Blu-ray titles were a little more popular this week than last, leading HD DVD by 66/34 (1.94:1) compared to last week's 65/35. We can also safely assume that Shrek, and the recent influx of HD DVD players, wasn't enough to make a dent in Blu-ray's new releases and recent price cuts. We suspect that HD DVD won't fare as well next week either, with Blu-ray's hot Die Hard franchise hitting the shelves while HD DVD really only had a very expensive Star Trek box set.

Joe-Fagundes · Post by **Joe-Fagundes** » November 28th, 2007, 12:11 pm

Foram vendidos na Europa 1 milhão de discos BR. Representando 73% das vendas totais de discos HD

Blu-ray and HD DVD both find reasons to be thankful

At this point, it's no longer unusual for both sides in the format war to both claim victory in different areas, even on the same day. While the Blu-ray camp celebrates topping the 1-million disc sold mark in Europe and 73 percent share of all HD movies sold on the continent, HD DVD's Black Friday marketing push has put it over 750,000 dedicated players sold in North America. So far this doesn't mark a departure from the norm, while Blu-ray pushes sales via the PS3, HD DVD continues to ride its strategy of lower priced standalone players, we'll have to wait and see which one consumers choose this holiday season.

Joe-Fagundes · Post by **Joe-Fagundes** » December 3rd, 2007, 11:22 am

Blu-ray once again pulls ahead with help from Bruce in this week's Nielsen VideoScan numbers courtesy of Home Media Magazine. In fact this week's 72/28 (2.57:1) is the biggest lead Blu-ray has enjoyed since we started our weekly post a couple of months ago. HD DVD has a few hot titles of their own this week with Sherk the Third making the top five as well as Transformers which held on to HD DVD's only other top ten spot. Not surprisingly, the very expensive Star Trek box set failed to make the top ten. Judging by this list, it doesn't appear that Blu-ray recent discount sales had much of an impact on this weeks numbers and was more impacted by big titles -- surprise, surprise. The other trend that continues is Warner's Blu-ray titles make the list while its HD DVD brother does not -- we can't wait to see what happens in December when Harry hits the shelves. Judging by last week's titles, (not counted here) we'd expect much of the same next week, unless of course all those new HD DVD owners finally got done watching all those free titles and finally start buying movies to actually help red's cause.

Thanatos · Post by **Thanatos** » December 3rd, 2007, 12:51 pm

"unless of course all those new HD DVD owners finally got done watching all those free titles and finally start buying movies to actually help red's cause."

Bem visto! Por acaso lá me voltou a morder o bichinho dos filmes e comecei a comprar (pela terceira vez) filmes do Kubrick. Desta vez vou pelos HD-DVD e comecei pelo 2001. A seguir cai o Shining e o Full Metal Jacket. Vai devagarinho porque estou mesmo a ver que para o ano que vem tenho mesmo de comprar um BR. É já só o que se vê nas lojas...

djhifi · Post by **djhifi** » December 3rd, 2007, 3:31 pm

Thanatos, cada um faz o que bem lhe apetece com o dinheiro, mas dado o teu argumento, é inevitável para mim dizer isto: Estás, então, a mandar dinheiro fora.

PS: Venho já, vou ali comprar o Die Hard 4.0.

Go blu!

Tojal City · Post by **Tojal City** » December 3rd, 2007, 3:53 pm

Não está nada, se o Blue ganhar, daqui a uns anitos compra um leitor mix pelo mesmo valor que se compra actualmente um DVD.

nmarques · Post by **nmarques** » December 3rd, 2007, 4:00 pm

Então é melhor que tenhas atenção ao BR do Die Hard 4, porque o que eu comprei foi devolvido á loja e ao fornecedor, metade das legendas que constavam na parte de tras do disco, incluindo a nossa, estavam em falta.

Foi um erro que aconteceu, espero que já tenham reparado esse pormenor, houve queixas em varias lojas, o fornecedor/distribuidor mandou recolher todos os BR para substituição.

Tojal City · Post by **Tojal City** » December 3rd, 2007, 4:24 pm

Mandou recolher e duvido que volte. Pois a Fox neste momento só aposta em alguns mercados europeus chave.

Joe-Fagundes · Post by **Joe-Fagundes** » December 3rd, 2007, 4:37 pm

De referir que os BRs da Warner vendem muito mais que os HD-DVD do mesmo estudio, logo será um tiro no pé se for em exlcusivo para o HD-DVD.

Joe-Fagundes · Post by **Joe-Fagundes** » December 3rd, 2007, 4:53 pm

Blu-ray picks up where it left off a few weeks ago on its way to 400 titles by the end of the year with a mix of releases. The first comedy for the blu camp in some time, is Superbad, and the biggest title of the week is long awaited day and date release of Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End. Fox, on the other hand continues to waiver, not only did they drop Independence Day from the release list this week, but for whatever reason they decided not to bring the sixth season of 24 to Blu-ray despite releasing it on DVD. HD DVD has two exclusives this week, first up is the documentary, Arctic Tale and the first season of the very popular Battlestar Galactica. While we can't wait to see how well these titles sell, next week is the big week when the Harry Potter series hits both formats at the same time as the latest installment of Borne and High School Musical.

HD DVD 346 vs Blu-ray 377*

Blu-ray

20 Million Miles to Earth (Sony)
Cast Away (Fox)
Elton 60 - Live at Madison Square Garden (Universal Music)
Masters of Horror: Season One - Vol. Four (Starz)
Mr. & Mrs. Smith (Fox)
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End (Buena Vista)
Queen Rock Montreal & Live Aid (Eagle Rock)
Superbad (Sony)

HD DVD

Arctic Tale (Paramount)
Battlestar Galactica: Season One (Universal)
Queen Rock Montreal & Live Aid (Eagle Rock)

Thanatos · Post by **Thanatos** » December 3rd, 2007, 5:41 pm

djhifi wrote:Thanatos, cada um faz o que bem lhe apetece com o dinheiro, mas dado o teu argumento, é inevitável para mim dizer isto: Estás, então, a mandar dinheiro fora.

Não necessariamente. Continuarei a ler os discos até que o aparelho se avarie. E provavelmente depois haverá hibridos ao preço da uva mijona. O software em si mantém-se.

O que não faria sentido, para já, era adquirir os discos em BR sem ter leitor.

djhifi · Post by **djhifi** » December 3rd, 2007, 5:41 pm

Obrigado nmarques.

Trouxe a Trilogia do Spider Man para casa.

Joe-Fagundes · Post by **Joe-Fagundes** » December 5th, 2007, 5:19 pm

Michael bay ataca HD-DVD e Microsoft

Zangam-se as comadres, sabem-se as verdades. Confrontado por um fã sobre a fraca disponibilidade no mercado de discos HD-DVD do filme Transformers, o realizador Michael Bay decidiu tornar pública a sua ideia sobre o projecto da Microsoft. Visivelmente irritado, Bay acabou mesmo por dizer que o grande objectivo da Microsoft é fazer com o formato HD-DVD falhe redondamente, assim como o Blu-ray, em prol de um outro "formato".

"Aquilo que vocês não percebem são políticas da empresa. A Microsoft quer que os dois formatos falhem para que eles sejam os heróis e convençam o mundo a mudar para os descarregamentos digitais. É esse o segredo escondido do qual ninguém está a falar", afirmou Michael Bay. "É essa a razão pela qual a Microsoft anda a entregar cheques de 100 milhões de dólares para os estúdios apoiarem o HD-DVD e não o líder, e superior, Blu-ray. Eles querem criar confusão no mercado ate aperfeiçoarem o descarregamento digital. Mas o tempo vai acabar por mostrar a verdade", finalizou o realizador.

Thanatos · Post by **Thanatos** » December 5th, 2007, 5:58 pm

Mas olha que isso dos cheques, a ser verdade não parece andar a dar resultado.

Pelos vistos os estúdios querem mais.

Malick · Post by **Malick** » December 5th, 2007, 6:46 pm

O Bay anda nisto para defender a qualidade acima de tudo (e não para ganhar dinheiro), aliás basta ver a qualidade dos seus filmes...