Two better than one?

Video Business, April, 2007

By Paul Sweeting Sony Pictures Home Entertainment released some data on Blu-ray and HD DVD software sales the other day, courtesy of Nielsen/VideoScan's retail point-of-sale data collection system. Given studios' typical reticence to release that sort of information, we can assume Sony felt the numbers tell a story it wants the world to hear, namely that Blu-ray releases are outselling HD DVD releases by a large and growing margin.

That would fit with the Blu-ray camp's No. 1 talking point at the moment: The format war is over, and Blu-ray has won. Indeed, of the Top 25 next-gen releases in 2007 through the middle of March, 23 were Blu-ray releases. The only straight-up HD DVD release to crack the Top 25 was Warner Home Video 's Batman...

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