HD DVD Fire Sale Nets Banner Weekend?

By Geoff Duncan November 7, 2007

HD DVD Fire Sale Nets Banner Weekend?

Folks who were wondering whether leading retailers’ decisions to drop the price of Toshiba’s HD-A2 HD DVD player to the neighborhood of $99 this past weekend would have any significant impact on sales have their first signs this morning: long-standing video industry publication Video Business is reporting that retailers moved 90,000 Toshiba HD DVD players over the weekend.

Citing sources “close to the retailers”—including Wal-mart, Best Buy, and Circuit City, and others, but not every retailer offering the players—most of the sales were apparently for the discounted HD-A2 second-generation HD DVD players, although some sales were for the third-generation HD-A3, which Best Buy was offering for $299 over the weekend.

Aside from the Blu-ray equipped PlayStation 3 game console, the best-selling Blu-ray player is the $499 Sony BDP-S300, which has sold about 100,000 units since its introduction in mid-2007. Even with 90,000 players sold over three days, Blu-ray still has the largest base of installed players due to the PlayStation 3 game console.

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