Blu-ray Sales Zip Past HD-DVD

There's fresh news from the front where Blu-ray and HD-DVD are duking it out — for the first time since the beginning of the battle, Blu-ray is showing a lead by showing more sales than HD-DVD. Exact figures are unavailable, but 100 Blu-ray discs are being sold for every 98.71 HD-DVD discs, according to preliminary statistics from Nielsen VideoScan data. That may not sound like much, but it'll be more apparent when you get the real figures.

HD-DVD had the advantage of getting into the market significantly ahead of Blu-ray, and the cheaper hardware and disc prices were almost guaranteed to win over the latter. HD-DVD did enjoy the top spot for a while, but since the availability of the PlayStation 3, there has been a lot of push by the backing industry and studios.