"Format war"

"Format war" continues: according to Home Media Magazine edition, sales of blu-ray disks in USA during nine months in 2007 almost twice have exceeded HD-DVD sales.

From January till September, 2007 in USA about 1.4 million HD-DVD has been sold. For the same period inhabitants of this country have got 2.6 million films on blu-ray. The similar parity of sales was observed in July, 2007: 795 thousand HD-DVD and 1.6 million blu-ray.

By estimations of analysts though New Year's holidays also will provoke sharp rise of sales of both formats, release in USA of PlayStation 3 with 40-Gb hard disk costing 399 dollars in November, 2007 can deduce for a long time blu-ray in leaders of sales.