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Overlooking 2007 everybody is concluding different things. HD DVD titles were released in April 2006, followed by Blu-ray in June of the same year. After selling 20 months HD DVD sold a total of 2.5 million movies. Blu-ray did better by selling 6 million movies in 18 months.
In September 2006 Apple started selling movies trough their iTunes store and this month they announced their sales figures. In a total of 15 months Apple sold 7 million movies... Did they defeat both high-definition formats?
MacDailyNews states that Apple iTunes 'outsell HD DVD and Blu-ray titles'. What they are actually doing is comparing non-HD with HD movies... Can we state that comparing these parties is not significant?
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Posted by SpeedyJDK (guest) on Wednesday 23 January 2008 19:44
What a stupid compare. NON-HD ain't even to be compared. I bet there is more sold coffee than Blu-Ray movies as well. So did the coffee makers beat em all ?
Posted by SiC on Thursday 24 January 2008 00:37
That was retarded, comparing 320x240 ipod movies to HD movies.
Posted by shaolin007 on Thursday 24 January 2008 19:54
'outsell HD DVD and Blu-ray titles'
Should be 'outsold' HDDVD and Bluray.
As far as commenting on the article, if you were going to make a comparison like they did, the best comparison would be to compare it with something similiar like SD DVD. If they did that, there wouldn't be any news because I-tunes couldn't compete with SD DVD. This is just another example of how media oulets fabricate the news to either hype something, which is the case here, or create news that normally would of gone unnoticed anyways. I can't believe CDFreaks thought this was news worthy for their site.
Should be 'outsold' HDDVD and Bluray.
As far as commenting on the article, if you were going to make a comparison like they did, the best comparison would be to compare it with something similiar like SD DVD. If they did that, there wouldn't be any news because I-tunes couldn't compete with SD DVD. This is just another example of how media oulets fabricate the news to either hype something, which is the case here, or create news that normally would of gone unnoticed anyways. I can't believe CDFreaks thought this was news worthy for their site.
Posted by ivid on Friday 25 January 2008 00:27
Its fair if you look at it as a comparison of sales of optical media's latest technologies vs. digital media's latest.
But to say they "beat" it is false. It implies their HD format won out over these HD formats. Incorrect statement !
But to say they "beat" it is false. It implies their HD format won out over these HD formats. Incorrect statement !
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