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What format to do you now use?

DVD 40 7.13%
 
Blu-Ray 171 30.48%
 
Digital 141 25.13%
 
Still love my HD-DVD :( 10 1.78%
 
Digital + Blu-Ray 70 12.48%
 
Digital + DVD 21 3.74%
 
Digital + Blu-Ray + DVD 58 10.34%
 
DVD + Blu-Ray 50 8.91%
 
Total:561
Kerotan on 22 October 2014

Blu-Ray has long since defeated HD-DVD but it's war with DVD is still raging. I'd imagine it has about 30% of the market now but does anybody have up to date stats between the two? There used to be a forum that would track the sales and give weekly charts but I can't find it anywhere. 

 

UPDATE: (Thanks to Shadow1980!) 

Fascintating graphs. Blu ray at this point must be easily the market leader and it's market size will only increase along with the others above it as DVD declines. 



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Kerotan on 22 October 2014

Anybody know! Plenty of people answering the poll but nobody knows the marketshare :(



archer9234 on 22 October 2014

I check sales for stuff that comes out. Both DVD and BD. They sell equally most of the time. That's why DVD doesn't get retired. Also, mainly because there are shows that are in SD only. And it's a waste of time to upscale them. I buy both. Anything that can't be remastered, DVD. Anything that is in HD, I buy in BD. Unless it only comes out to DVD. Than I just make my own rips from my DVR and burn a disc.



benao87 on 22 October 2014

What? Is Blue Ray still a thing? XD



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Chris Hu on 22 October 2014

I'm pretty sure here in the US Blu ray is the majority of of the market. But it will never be as successful as DVD was as its peak thanks to streaming sites, on demand and digital sales.



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Skidonti on 22 October 2014

All I can say is I and my family don't buy either. The only video discs I've bought in three-four years are a small handful of the Ghibli Blu-ray editions.

*Perhaps I should note that when we do keep up our Netflix physical subscription we rent blu-rays, of course.



Kerotan on 23 October 2014
Chris Hu said:
I'm pretty sure here in the US Blu ray is the majority of of the market. But it will never be as successful as DVD was as its peak thanks to streaming sites, on demand and digital sales.


Agreed about DVD being the peak. I think with the X1 going blu ray it will help the market get a nice bump. 



phinch1 on 23 October 2014
Kerotan said:
Chris Hu said:
I'm pretty sure here in the US Blu ray is the majority of of the market. But it will never be as successful as DVD was as its peak thanks to streaming sites, on demand and digital sales.


Agreed about DVD being the peak. I think with the X1 going blu ray it will help the market get a nice bump. 

Xbone will with production of games help blu ray with a few million but I'd say film wise it won't make too much of a difference 



Kerotan on 23 October 2014
phinch1 said:
Kerotan said:
Chris Hu said:
I'm pretty sure here in the US Blu ray is the majority of of the market. But it will never be as successful as DVD was as its peak thanks to streaming sites, on demand and digital sales.


Agreed about DVD being the peak. I think with the X1 going blu ray it will help the market get a nice bump. 

Xbone will with production of games help blu ray with a few million but I'd say film wise it won't make too much of a difference 

i won't disagree but lets say X1 sells 40-50M then that's a lot of blu ray players. Add in the PS4 prob doing 130M it's gonna help the blue ray film market no end. 



zumnupy10 on 23 October 2014

Blu-ray media came in an era when even BD players have access to Netflix. On the gaming front, PC gamers have long gone digital and it seems to me console gamers will do the same now.