HD DVD Fire Sale Nets Banner Weekend?
November 07, 2007 | by Geoff Duncan
Video Business is reporting that this past weekend's blowout of Toshiba HD-A2 HD DVD players moved an estimated 90,000 units.
Folks who were wondering whether leading retailers' decisions to drop the price of Toshiba's HD-A2 HD DVD player to the neighborhood of $99 this past weekend would have any significant impact on sales have their first signs this morning: long-standing video industry publication Video Business is reporting that retailers moved 90,000 Toshiba HD DVD players over the weekend.
Citing sources "close to the retailers"—including Wal-mart, Best Buy, and Circuit City, and others, but not every retailer offering the players—most of the sales were apparently for the discounted HD-A2 second-generation HD DVD players, although some sales were for the third-generation HD-A3, which Best Buy was offering for $299 over the weekend.
Aside from the Blu-ray equipped PlayStation 3 game console, the best-selling Blu-ray player is the $499 Sony BDP-S300, which has sold about 100,000 units since its introduction in mid-2007. Even with 90,000 players sold over three days, Blu-ray still has the largest base of installed players due to the PlayStation 3 game console.
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TJ on Nov 7th, 2007 at 10:44 AM:
This is good for HD DVD, but I don't know if it will be enough to counter Blu-ray. Especially with all the exclusive titles Blu-ray has this xmas (Spider-man, Die Hard, Pirates, Ratatouille).
I have one player of each format, and for now, I think that's the best way to go if you're going hidef.
James on Nov 7th, 2007 at 11:31 AM:
Holy cow that is a lot of players. I guess most people still will not buy the HD DVD movies, but for $99 bucks who cares, its a (hopefully) future-proof DVD player.
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Jim Ambras on Nov 7th, 2007 at 9:57 AM:
Best Buy was actually selling the new Toshiba HD-A3 for $199 over the weekend. The offer included 9 free HD DVDs. Two are in the box ("300" and "The Bourne Identity"), you could pick out two additional titles from the store, and 5 more were available after sending a coupon in.