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Blu-ray high-definition movie discs outsold films on the rival HD-DVD format by 2-to-1 in the United States in the first half of 2007, Home Media Research said Tuesday.
The division of Home Media Magazine said total sales of Blu-ray discs, using a Sony Corp-backed technology, totaled 1.6 million units from Jan. 1 through July 1, compared [...]

Until recently, many consumers were able to defer the choice of Blu-ray or HD DVD because players have been so expensive, but prices have been slashed by about half — Sony’s Blu-ray player now sells for $499 and Toshiba’s cheapest HD DVD player sells for $299, with both likely to include as many as five [...]