'Planet Earth' HD DVD, Blu-ray top sellers

[briandarroch]

60 to 70% of the revenue may come from Blu-Ray but how much of it is profit? HD DVD may be more profitable per disc so the figures may be closer than that. Just a suggestion, it may be complete nonsense and we'll probably never know for certain

[Chris]

I'm glad you have a time table for BD-J being finished this summer. No one else has said that.

I also said fall. Just because you dont have the timetable for BD-J, doesnt mean that BDA doesnt:


http://www.highdefdigest.com/news/sh...re_Support/543

http://www.videobusiness.com/article....html?nid=2840


Well I cant help it if you dont belive statements fram Disney, that is not my fault:

Disney's next major catalog release on Blu-ray will be the blockbuster 'The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch & the Wardrobe.' No street date has yet been set, but a late summer/early fall release is being targeted.
Due to an extensive level of involvement by Pixar, the originally announced June 5 release of 'Cars' has been pushed back (as first reported earlier this month); current plans are a hoped-for arrival date of September 2007.

Also they said the Pixar "Cars" titles was a "hoped for" title. I hope it does come out this year. I would buy it.

The title wasnt "hoped for", but the release date was. They hoped for a September 2007 release...

[MasterOB1]

By the time I finished reading this thread that turned into a pissing contest, the HD DVD version of Planet Earth was still outselling the BD version.

[Kid Banana]

By the time I finished reading this thread that turned into a pissing contest, the HD DVD version of Planet Earth was still outselling the BD version.

It certainly is. No doubt about it.

Not sure what you mean by 'pissing contest'. I got challenged and backed up my position. I don't think anyone doubts the current sales strength of Planet Earth HD DVD.

[Philnerd]

Lets say they make $100 for releasing both BR and HD DVD. If they chose to make BR only, you would cut off 30%-40%, which would be $30 or $40. That means they made $60 or $70 from the BR version.

while 30% or 40% is nothing to sneeze about, that just means they are selling more (and making more money) from the blu ray sales.

does that sound right or am I missing something???

100% correct.

So (at least IMO) is that although he is trying to give some good PR to HD DVD, he implicitly states that they sell more (and profit more) from BR...

Well, I think "good PR" might be an overstatement. Just trying to provide what might be a correction to the previous interpretation of those numbers that appeared to skew BD sales far more heavily than what the Warner president appears to actually state. Certainly not trying to say that Warner is making more money off HD DVD right now or anything silly like that. Just trying to be accurate.

[marine92104]

I also said fall. Just because you dont have the timetable for BD-J, doesnt mean that BDA doesnt:


http://www.highdefdigest.com/news/sh...re_Support/543

http://www.videobusiness.com/article....html?nid=2840


Well I cant help it if you dont belive statements fram Disney, that is not my fault:

Sorry got that one wrong. Fox is waiting on BD+ not BD-J. BD-J is supposed to be finished by Oct 31. I don't think anyone has any news on when BD+ is supposed to be ready.

Thanks for the link for the videobusiness article. According to the article even the PS3 can't do the PIP for the new BD-J. I didn't know that.

Few Blu-ray players include picture-in-picture capability, for instance, not even the PlayStation 3.

Sony’s current and summer 2007 stand-alone models and available Pioneer and Philips units are among those lacking the picture-in-picture feature.

I'm not sure which one to believe on "The Chronicles of Narnia" this site saying a fall release or the digital bits saying around the holidays.

I do hope Pixar releases "Cars" in September. If not they probably would push it to around the holiday season. I'd really like to have that title.

Again here is the quote the digital bits got from Disney. Choose which site you want to believe. According to him he got the info Buena Vista Home Entertainment president.

At a press event in Hollywood last night for the forthcoming Pirates high-def release, Buena Vista Home Entertainment president Bob Chapek revealed that his company has started production on the Blu-ray Disc release of The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, likely due to hit stores in time for the holidays later this year.

This isn't a jab at Blu-ray as you're taking it. It's a jab at Disney for not supporting Blu-ray more with titles & I take it from what they said until there is a bigger market penetration we won't be seeing big titles from them.

It's also a jab at the BDA for not having the specs & complete players in place for format launch so those of us that have already bought players would have to buy new players if we want to take advantage of all the things Blu-ray can do eventually. BD-J isn't mandantory to be in players until 10/31 & there is no news on when BD+ will be implemented & Fox will be back on board.

[Chris]

Yes, lets hope for more BD this summer fall. As you see I also have the Toshiba HD-XA1, bought that as early as august 2006. I love movies and love both formats because I love HD. BUT I do hope for one format only. Here in my city one videostore just startet blu-ray rentals and that is a great start.

I now only buy BD to support the format I think will win in the end. But I also buy some Universal-titles.

Too bad the BD-J and the BD+ is not ready, cus I think we would had a lot more titles from all companies for Blu-ray

[BostonMA]

yeah, at first i was going to save some money and skip his purchase and try to catch some of them on tv. i watched pole to pole on saturday afternoon and it was great, but i havent had time to catch any of the other episodes. so i'm definetly going to buy this soon and with the price of 66$ at amazon, yu cant beat it.

[bear89103]

I've moved this thread to the sales data and ranks subfolder. After careful consideration, this thread was left in the wrong area. And my attempt to remedy the situation is to move it to the appropriate area. I'm sorry it's so late in this thread's life, but sometimes we miss things also.

[kgf]

just got planet earth on hddvd.HD DVD RULES!

[Kolgar]

Not surprised the HD-DVD version sold well... there's not much else new to buy on that format.

Wow, I hope there's no limit on how many people can fit in one's Ignore List... There's got to be quite a big party in there by now!!!

Thanks for making yourself so easy to spot. Annnnnd goodbye!