Toshiba not so impressed by Blu-ray's victory cries

[wraggster]

It really doesn't take a keen eye for news these days to spot the all-out PR blitz by team Blu-ray to convince the masses that the format war is over and Blu-ray has won. Now Toshiba is finally sticking up for itself, in specific response to Blu-ray's recent CeBIT press conference. Olivier Van Wynendaele, Deputy General manager of HD DVD at Toshiba, calls the Blu-ray claims "propaganda" and disputes the Blu-ray points. For instance, the new 3:1 sales figure being touted by the Blu-ray Disc Association in regards to Blu-ray to HD DVD sales is claimed by Wynendaele to be artificially inflated by free Blu-ray movie vouchers being redeemed by PlayStation 3 owners. He also notes that Toshiba has sold 200,000 HD DVD players in the US, in comparison to the 30,000 standalone Blu-ray players sold, and that it's not clear yet how many Blu-ray movies the two million PS3 owners are going to be watching. Olivier also promised that Toshiba will undercut Sony prices every step of the way, and made it clear that while HD players account for less than 1% of DVD player sales, it's way too early to call the war for either side.

via engadget (http://www.engadget.com/2007/03/19/toshiba-not-so-impressed-by-blu-rays-victory-cries/)

[jonezybaby]

sore loser id say..... hee hee

[muffinman]

yes only 30k stand alone blueray players were sold because the ps3 is cheaper than the standalones :s

sore loser indeed

[Tree]

haha wanker blu-ray will always win coz its on da greatest game console :P

[Uchuu]

LOL, yea sore loser indeed.

If i'm correct, the free movie vouchers for the PS3 aren't even in place yet. I thought people get one AFTER they get a Euro-PS3 (thats when you get Casino Royale). It's not March 23rd yet.

Plus fine, 200k HD-dvd players + all the 360 add-ons (which I, and most, 360 owners don't have), vs 30k BR players + all PS3s. Either way they're all players that play the media and BR is winning. And even if only half, or so, uses the PS3 to play BR movies, thats already around 800k people(sales data from nexgenwars).

830K total for BR is way better than around 400k for HD-DVD[200k + ~200k Xbox 360 add-ons (not too sure about the Xbox figure, did a google search and saw that 100k was the most relavent number, but that was in January so i just doubled it, please correct me if i'm wrong)].

Anyways........go BR!!!!

[DPyro]

Ya, I'll eventually get a PS3 anyways :D

[F9zDark]

I like Talladega Nights, but I would have much rather gotten Casino Royale :p.

Yeah and this certainly seems like a sore loser statement; since the 3:1 ratio was reported by a THIRD PARTY and not the BluRay Association...