Comments on: Europe Embraces HD-DVD Over Blu-Ray, Sony ‘Late’ To Woo Indies

By: nick

nick — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 10:57:17 +0000

sony just want to concentrate on the US market more because if it's popular in US then the rest of th world will adopt it. Because American movies pretty much dominate the whole world right now. they can release as many movies on HD-DVD as they want but poeple are more interested in buying Starwars, Lord of the ring than some European independent studios.
Look at Sony minidisc. It never really take off in US but it's very popular in Europe.
Or VCD or SVCD. I only saw the demo on the shelf for like a month and then it just disappeared.
One good thing came out of these is that it drove the price down faster than anything I've ever seen.

By: ES

ES — Fri, 20 Apr 2007 03:08:16 +0000

Of the top 10 HD DVD's on Amazon.co.uk, exactly one is from a European distributor. Of the top 10 BD's, none is. So the impact of this seems to be quite minimal. And in Germany, eproductwars data suggest that the war is as good as over with BD clearly winning.

By: Rob

Rob — Thu, 12 Apr 2007 18:37:51 +0000

45 total titles between both formats is not enough to declare "Europe Embraces HD-DVD".

This article is total crap. Please print actual news and not opinion.