Warner Brothers confirmed that it was slashing its expectations for high-definition DVD sales for this year on drastically lower sales for HD-DVD and Blu-ray Disc players.
The studio had forecast that Blu-ray Disc and HD-DVD, two rival next-gen DVD formats, would sell a combined 4.5 to 6.0 million players by the end of 2006. Now the company only expects 1.5 million hi-def players to be sold this year. As a result, Warner Brothers is slashing its DVD sales forecast from $250 to 400 million to just $150 million.
In the article, the delay of the Blu-ray-enable PlayStation 3 gets some of the blame, while the rest falls upon customers adopting a "wait and see" attitude towards the high-def format war between HD-DVD and Blu-ray.
The USA Today article also has another interesting detail: HD-DVD has about 100 titles on the market, while Blu-ray has just 50.
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