HD DVD GETTING MORE LOOKS ON NETFLIX SITE THAN BLU-RAY
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HD DVD GETTING MORE LOOKS ON NETFLIX SITE THAN BLU-RAY
Of 14 million visitors to online DVD renter Netflix's website each month, only 48,000 viewed its pages devoted to releases in high-definition HD DVD or Blu-ray discs, according to Compete.com. Examining the data, the website High-Def Disc News commented Thursday, "Curiously, although those who looked at Blu-ray titles outnumbered those looking at HD-DVD by a factor of 1.8 to 1, among those who set an hi-def format as their preferred disc format, HD-DVD was chosen over Blu-ray by a factor of 2.4 to 1." In August, Netflix CEO Reed Hastings said that his company was "agnostic" in the battle between the two formats for allegiance but indicated that customer demand was "pretty evenly split between them, [but it's] tiny, like a percent or something." The new figures would indicate that, at least judging from the number of visitors to Netflix's HDTV pages, it's even tinier -- just a third of a percent.
05/10/2007
