Toshiba sells 90,000 HD DVD players last weekend

Posted in HD DVD, News, Toshiba by Darrin Olson on November 8th, 2007

Toshiba says it sold 90,000 of its HD-A2 HD DVD players last weekendWow; last week we reported the latest strike by HD DVD in the high-def war against Blu-ray with Wal-Mart offering the Toshiba HD-A2 for under $100 starting last Friday. Well, apparently this was big news to a few more people than we thought it would be. Best Buy also jumped on with the price cut and reportedly so did a number of other smaller, more local retailers to total around a whopping 90,000 of the HD-A2 HD DVD units sold just last weekend. According to Toshiba most retailers sold out quickly. The price reduction was likely due to clear stock for the upcoming Toshiba HD-A3 model, which would replace the HD-A2.

To give some perspective the rival Blu-ray players best selling stand-alone model, the Sony BDP-S300, retails for $499 and has sold about 100,000 units since it’s launch earlier in the year, however Blu-ray seems to be holding strong due to the fact that it’s built into the Playstation 3 game console.



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