By the end of the first week of January, HD DVD retail sales were 47.14 per cent of BD's. The following week, that figure had fallen to 38.36 per cent. That said, more HD DVDs have been bought in the US in total than BD media, but that's no great surprise because the hardware has been available for longer. Toshiba shipped the first HD DVD player in the US in April 2006 - Samsung's BD player, again the first of its kind, didn't ship until the Autumn.
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