HD DVD Sales Double in May
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HD DVD said Monday that its strategy of price cuts seems to be paying off -- sales have skyrocketed, it claims.
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Ditches HD-DVD camp Warner Bros is abandoning HD-DVD to settle down in monogamous bliss with Sony's Blu-ray. The company today cited "consumer demand" for its decision to stop selling HD-DVD-format movie titles at the end of May. It is the only movie major to sell high-definition DVDs in both formats, but has already tired of playing the field.â¦
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LOS ANGELES  - It was gore in the video stores last week. The gruesome prequel "Hannibal Rising" topped the national DVD sales chart for the week ending June 3, while equally brutal "Apocalypto" held on to the No. 1 slot on the rental chart.
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LOS ANGELES  - As the summer doldrums  continue in terms of high-profile video releases, the  family-friendly "The Last Mimzy" took the top spot on the  national DVD sales chart for the week ending July 15.
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US retail sales rose in May at the strongest pace in 16 months as American consumers splurged on many more purchases than anticipated, a government survey showed Wednesday.
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Retail sales rose more than twice as much as expected in May, while import prices surged, adding to recent data suggesting the U.S. economy is recovering strongly after a slowdown in the first quarter.
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By Martyn Williams, IDG News Service and Paul Kallender, IDG News Service. The group supporting the HD-DVD optical disc format for high-definition video has received a boost in its battle against the rival
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Blockbuster syas Blu-ray has proven to be more popular with its customers than HD DVD.
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(InfoWorld) - Vendors supporting HD DVD are cutting prices to boost their products, which are vying with Blu-ray disc technology to replace current DVD movie discs. Next month, consumers can expect to find a range of entry-level players priced at around â¬300 ($409), the HD DVD Promotional Group announced Friday at theÂ IFA international consumer electronics show in Berlin. The price is nearly half of what many entry models in Europe currently cost, said Oliver Van Wynendaele, a manager in Toshiba's HD DVD group. Canada's Venturer Electronics plans to launch its SHD-7000 player at around â¬300 next month, while Toshiba will offer its HD-EP30 model for around â¬350, Van Wynendaele said. Toshiba will also give buyers five free discs. Toshiba will begin equipping its notebook PCs with HD DVD drives in the fourth quarter, according to Yoshihide Fujii, Toshiba corporate senior vice president and president and CEO of the company's digital media network unit.
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Retail sales rose more than twice as  much as expected in May, while import prices surged, adding to  recent data suggesting the U.S. economy is recovering strongly  after a slowdown in the first quarter.
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First-quarter profit more than doubled on asset sales and income from last yearâs two biggest-selling DVD releases.
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The company currently offers more than 300 HD DVD titles for sale on its site, and more than 400 that use the competing Blu-ray DVD format championed by Sony.
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This is fantastic news and could possibly make the HD-DVD format the winner over the competing Blu-Ray technology.... Two Japanese companies said Tuesday they have developed a DVD that can play on both existing
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The European arm of the HD DVD Promotion Group announced Thursday that it has 74 percent of the high-definition market for standalone players in  Britain, Germany, France, Italy, Spain and Switzerland, outselling rival Blu-ray players by a 3-to-1 margin. But the figures do not include Sony PS3 sales.
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The number of homes put up for sale surged in May as sellers tried to beat the launch of Home Information Packs.
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In a recent survey of HDTV owners by NPD Group, a full 73% were satisfied with the picture quality provided by upconverted DVDs for them to become too interested in a high-definition disc player of either format. Other figures are equally shocking, suggesting that the high-def format war may already be over. BetaNews spoke at length with the NPD report's author, analyst Ross Rubin.
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PlayStation 3 driving demand? Blu-ray Disc is catching up with HD DVD, at least in terms of US pre-recorded media retail sales, the most recently published figures from sell-through video sales tracker Nielsen VideoScan show. In the first two weeks of January, BD media outsold HD DVD.â¦