The popular online video rental service Netflix has announced that they have decided to support Blu-ray exclusively for high definition movie rentals.
Netflix will no longer purchase movies in the rival HD DVD format, and once the life cycle for those discs has ended, they will no longer stock the format for rent.
Showing posts with label HD. Show all posts
Showing posts with label HD. Show all posts
Monday, February 11, 2008
Wednesday, January 30, 2008
National geographics is pure blu-ray
Joining ranks with warner, National geographics will now only release it´s movies on the Blu-ray hd medium.
Astonishing to see some people still buying hd-dvd in US of a while here in Europe people even get money when they trade in their useless hd.dvd players and instead pick up a blu-ray player.
Astonishing to see some people still buying hd-dvd in US of a while here in Europe people even get money when they trade in their useless hd.dvd players and instead pick up a blu-ray player.
Wednesday, January 9, 2008
top 250 sales chart @ amazon.com
sales chart for HD movies since warner went Blu-ray
It´s a chart from amazon.com showcasing how hd-dvd sales on amazon has rocketed downwards while Blu-ray has remained in the top ranks.
It´s a chart from amazon.com showcasing how hd-dvd sales on amazon has rocketed downwards while Blu-ray has remained in the top ranks.
Saturday, December 15, 2007
The HD war, one more blu-ray week
let´s forget worldwide for a short while, not because hd-dvd won in a non na region, but because blu-ray´s lead is even bigger worldwide, so let´s forget that and just look at last weeks North america numbers.
Over 3:1 in favour of Blu-ray and 8 out of the top ten was blu-ray movies, not to mention that blu-ray´s top movie outsold hd-dvd´s top movie by a 8-1 margin.
Ah yes, what does it mean in %? Blu-ray has 76% of the hd market in north america in other words and hd-dvd 24%.
nxtbook has the numbers if you click the link
Over 3:1 in favour of Blu-ray and 8 out of the top ten was blu-ray movies, not to mention that blu-ray´s top movie outsold hd-dvd´s top movie by a 8-1 margin.
Ah yes, what does it mean in %? Blu-ray has 76% of the hd market in north america in other words and hd-dvd 24%.
nxtbook has the numbers if you click the link
Wednesday, December 5, 2007
Michael bay speaks about blu-ray and hd-dvd
Ouch, the outspoken Michael bay has done it again and one has to aplaud a director locked into hd-dvd that speaks up so loud and well about blu-ray, anyway, this is a man that´s not content with seeing his movies on hd-dvd only.
In other words, prepare for Michael bay and his movies to hit blu-ray sooner then later.
As you can see, Michael bay blaims Microsoft for keeping Hd-dvd in the race even tho the hd-dvd format is so totally outgunned and outperformed by Blu-ray
And here´s the link to Michaels own post Guess the hd-dvd camp will try to blaim Michael for being drunk again like they did last time he spoke up :)
In other words, prepare for Michael bay and his movies to hit blu-ray sooner then later.
What you don't understand is corporate politics. Microsoft wants both formats to fail so they can be heroes and make the world move to digital downloads. That is the dirty secret no one is talking about. That is why Microsoft is handing out $100 million dollar checks to studios just embrace the HD DVD and not the leading, and superior Blu Ray. They want confusion in the market until they perfect the digital downloads. Time will tell and you will see the truth.
As you can see, Michael bay blaims Microsoft for keeping Hd-dvd in the race even tho the hd-dvd format is so totally outgunned and outperformed by Blu-ray
And here´s the link to Michaels own post Guess the hd-dvd camp will try to blaim Michael for being drunk again like they did last time he spoke up :)
Thursday, November 29, 2007
Blu-ray vs Hd-dvd, sales chart
A well, one more week for Blu-ray on the winning streak and one more for Hd-dvd on the loosing streak and one more week with alot of people being fooled into buying a hd-dvd player.
I just read about a poor sod whom bought a hd-dvd player earlier this year to purchase HD movies for his kids, problem is, disny is blu-ray HD only... Makes you wonder when people will catch up to the ugly reality that is hd movies.
Anyway, he´s now buying a ps3 for christmas, first and foremost to use it as a blu-ray movie player and of course also to play games with his kids.
Data for the week shows 72.6% of high-definition discs purchased by consumers were Blu-ray and just 27.4% were HD DVD, which means hd dvd isnt gaining, they are loosing ground in the hd movie war.
I just read about a poor sod whom bought a hd-dvd player earlier this year to purchase HD movies for his kids, problem is, disny is blu-ray HD only... Makes you wonder when people will catch up to the ugly reality that is hd movies.
Anyway, he´s now buying a ps3 for christmas, first and foremost to use it as a blu-ray movie player and of course also to play games with his kids.
Data for the week shows 72.6% of high-definition discs purchased by consumers were Blu-ray and just 27.4% were HD DVD, which means hd dvd isnt gaining, they are loosing ground in the hd movie war.
Saturday, November 10, 2007
Blu-ray vs Hd-dvd
The numbers speaks for itself.
week ended 4 Nov: Blu-ray 71% of movie sales and hd-dvd 29%.
Year to date: Blu-ray 64% hd-dvd 36%.
Link to nielsens numbers
The transformer boost aparently only lasted for a week for the hd-dvd camp, and not even that week had them outperforming blu-ray.
Now, take into account the new and more affordable ps3 40gig unit and realy, why would anyone go hd-dvd, not even xbox 360 users has a real incentive to pick up the hd-dvd ad on for their console, it´s pretty pricy and ad´s one more unit in front of their tv, so if you´re going to have two units anyway and you already have one x360, far better picking up the more then affordable 40 gig ps3 and use that for your hd movie pleasure, not that big of an difference in price compared to the hd-dvd adon for your x360 and it will allow you to enjoy blu-ray movies instead of just hd-dvd movies and blu-ray is the winning hd movie format.
Secondly, picking up a low priced ps3 gets you access to even more games and since both x360 and ps3 have some neat exclusives this year (think uncharted for ps3 and ratchet and clank and haze and warhawk first and foremost) well that is of course much better then picking up a hd dvd adon for your x360, as of now, hd-dvd is going down the drain, the outsold ratio is increasing, not decreasing, and every hd-dvd exclusive movie will sooner or later end up on blu-ray, as were disney and sony will never release their movies on hd-dvd.
Simple pick aint it? With the exception of some die hard x360 fanboys it would be fun hearing what you sane x360 owners thinks of this.
Oh and dont forget that your lovely ps3 already supports the holy blu-ray 2.0 features, except for the software of course, but unless you´r living in a void like some do, you already know that sony´s lovely ps3´s blu-ray player keeps getting updated firmware per firmware and what it can do today is far beyond what it could do at launch, and when it launched it was already one of the best blu-ray players.
In other words blu-ray 2.0 wont be far away for the playstation 3 which is something that cant be said for early stand alone blu-ray players.
Final verdict is that you just got to love being a ps3 owner as far as high definition entertainment goes (games, movies, music).
week ended 4 Nov: Blu-ray 71% of movie sales and hd-dvd 29%.
Year to date: Blu-ray 64% hd-dvd 36%.
Link to nielsens numbers
The transformer boost aparently only lasted for a week for the hd-dvd camp, and not even that week had them outperforming blu-ray.
Now, take into account the new and more affordable ps3 40gig unit and realy, why would anyone go hd-dvd, not even xbox 360 users has a real incentive to pick up the hd-dvd ad on for their console, it´s pretty pricy and ad´s one more unit in front of their tv, so if you´re going to have two units anyway and you already have one x360, far better picking up the more then affordable 40 gig ps3 and use that for your hd movie pleasure, not that big of an difference in price compared to the hd-dvd adon for your x360 and it will allow you to enjoy blu-ray movies instead of just hd-dvd movies and blu-ray is the winning hd movie format.
Secondly, picking up a low priced ps3 gets you access to even more games and since both x360 and ps3 have some neat exclusives this year (think uncharted for ps3 and ratchet and clank and haze and warhawk first and foremost) well that is of course much better then picking up a hd dvd adon for your x360, as of now, hd-dvd is going down the drain, the outsold ratio is increasing, not decreasing, and every hd-dvd exclusive movie will sooner or later end up on blu-ray, as were disney and sony will never release their movies on hd-dvd.
Simple pick aint it? With the exception of some die hard x360 fanboys it would be fun hearing what you sane x360 owners thinks of this.
Oh and dont forget that your lovely ps3 already supports the holy blu-ray 2.0 features, except for the software of course, but unless you´r living in a void like some do, you already know that sony´s lovely ps3´s blu-ray player keeps getting updated firmware per firmware and what it can do today is far beyond what it could do at launch, and when it launched it was already one of the best blu-ray players.
In other words blu-ray 2.0 wont be far away for the playstation 3 which is something that cant be said for early stand alone blu-ray players.
Final verdict is that you just got to love being a ps3 owner as far as high definition entertainment goes (games, movies, music).
Tuesday, October 16, 2007
Ps3 storms the UK sales chart
The price cut on the 60gig pack and the new 40gig sku has stormed the UK sales chart, increasing playstation 3 sales with 178%.
more details here
And Hd-dvd is suffering from quality problems, the hd version of transformers just wont fit a hd-dvd disc and as of now, there´s no room for high res audio.
I have to confess that i didnt think this day would come this quick, i thought it would eventualy happen, but not as soon as this.
Anyway, it´s just getting more and more obvious that the only real hd solution when it comes to physical media is blu-ray, and as such a cheap 40 gig ps3 should be the perfect party (even tho i would buy the 60gig ps3 anyday over the 40gig version).
Not to mention that ps3 will soon get it´s blu-ray 1.1 update
more details here
And Hd-dvd is suffering from quality problems, the hd version of transformers just wont fit a hd-dvd disc and as of now, there´s no room for high res audio.
I have to confess that i didnt think this day would come this quick, i thought it would eventualy happen, but not as soon as this.
Anyway, it´s just getting more and more obvious that the only real hd solution when it comes to physical media is blu-ray, and as such a cheap 40 gig ps3 should be the perfect party (even tho i would buy the 60gig ps3 anyday over the 40gig version).
Not to mention that ps3 will soon get it´s blu-ray 1.1 update
Tuesday, October 9, 2007
Blu-ray in Netherlands
Free Record Shop, Netherlands's largest home entertainment retailer, has decided to officially endorse Blu-ray as the successor to DVD.
Blu-ray has since it´s launch in Netherlands outsold HD DVD on an average of 4-to-1 and has thus earned it´s rights so to say.
One little piggy... Makes you wonder whom will be the last man sitting on that hd-dvd branch, especialy now with the 40 gig ps3 priced so low that people could pick it up just for it´s blu-ray player features and still make a good deal.
Blu-ray has since it´s launch in Netherlands outsold HD DVD on an average of 4-to-1 and has thus earned it´s rights so to say.
One little piggy... Makes you wonder whom will be the last man sitting on that hd-dvd branch, especialy now with the 40 gig ps3 priced so low that people could pick it up just for it´s blu-ray player features and still make a good deal.
Friday, September 14, 2007
HD war. two new players
A well, the stupidity leak continues, yeah, yeah competition is good, that´s for sure and it will atleast help drive down price of both blu-ray and hd-dvd but still, how can movie companies help supporting two new hd movie formats?
People will go crazy, and all it will do is slow down the high definition format acceptance, because a big pool of people wont purchase anything until there´s one last man standing up, which we all know will be blu-ray :).
But anyway, first as we already know china-dvd is on the horizon, a new hd format mainly for china... But it will of course cross boarders sooner or later.
Second of all, a french company will roll out HD-Vmd this year in Usa, central Europe, the nordic countires(including Sweden), Australia, Brazil, China and japan.
Lower price is the big catchphrase for both hd-vmd and china-dvd.
People will go crazy, and all it will do is slow down the high definition format acceptance, because a big pool of people wont purchase anything until there´s one last man standing up, which we all know will be blu-ray :).
But anyway, first as we already know china-dvd is on the horizon, a new hd format mainly for china... But it will of course cross boarders sooner or later.
Second of all, a french company will roll out HD-Vmd this year in Usa, central Europe, the nordic countires(including Sweden), Australia, Brazil, China and japan.
Lower price is the big catchphrase for both hd-vmd and china-dvd.
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