Blu-ray hardware sales jump

People apparently had quite a reaction to the recent Blu-Ray ‘victory’ over HD DVD.
As reported at High-Def Digest, Blu-ray’s market share of hardware sales jumped from just over half to 93% in one week.

Credit also goes to The Digital Bits web site for reporting on this.

The positive piece of this is that it shows people are, indeed, paying attention to what’s going on in high-definition.

Before you abandon HD DVD, there are still a lot of movies scheduled to be released, including American Gangster on 2/19, Beowulf on 2/26 and Bee Movie on 3/11.

Speaking of Beowulf, Apple has a high-def trailer (two, actually) available for free download. It’s pretty impressive, and if you want to get an idea of what HD would look like on your PC, this would be a good place to start. You’ll be prompted to download Apple Quicktime player to view the trailers.

A special thanks to Randy Salas, technology journalist with the Star Tribune in Minneapolis and author of the popular Technobabble blog. It was Randy who brought this news to my attention and provided the links for this article.