Usher in the war of words. The HD DVD Promotional Group ramped up the rhetoric today by claiming the format controls 60 percent of the high-def media market. The Group claims its format is not only in the lead, but is growing ever so quickly with a new record of 75,000 discs sold in the last week of May.

According to reports, the spike in HD DVD growth is a result of significant price cuts on the HD-A2 player that saw the price reduced to $399. Even better the company claims, there is no slowdown in sales after the reduction.

Ironically, the Group chose to exclude any talk of video game platforms from the study, which could indicate two things: (1) the Xbox HD DVD players are not selling as well as expected and/or (2) Sony’s Playstation 3 was left out of the study to inflate HD DVD’s market share.

Either way, this sounds a bit fishy to me.

Via [Electronista]