Standalone HD DVD players have always been outselling SAL Blu-Ray players since day one.
the SI ghas always been in HD DVDs benefit. What I pointed out is that it is dropping. But if you mean weekly sales (or something short term) like that then tyou are wrong. At some point Toshiba admited it but said that SI and YTD are more important
[Link: engadgethd.com]But the only thing I found directly was not a quote from the VP:
how about
"One thing that may be
changing is our strategy," said Dan Silverberg, Warner's vice president of High-Definition media. "
When both formats launched and hardware prices were high,
we made a decision to support both formats and let the consumer decide
or how about
and
"We can definitely talk
Blu-ray," he said. "We are
committed to the format."
This quote from Silverberg tells me the format that sells the most players will get their support
looks like the opposite to me, looks like he is saying that not enough people are buying either format (and from the rest enough have both) that continuing to have the extra cost of two formats is not worth it and they are picking one side to hopefully end the war and the other people can then jump in with peace of mind.
It will be interesting to see what happens between now and Christmas.
don't know if you mean it as just interesting (i.e. stats wise) or INTERESTING (i.e. news wise) my guess WB won't make any official public announcement until early next year (even if they already made a decision)
1) Q4 is too important and they most likely don’t want to hurt sales
2) Things are not done in a day (unless bribed to do so), the disks for Q4 title are already replicated, so why lose money by throwing them in the trash. (on the other hand I don't think they have made Q1 anouncements and Q1 titles would be what are behind the scenes right now)
