I got netflix so that's how i see the ads. You are right but it may influence them for the next movie they buy.

A couple of stores here in London (and I mean a couple) have a cardboard cut out with leaflets. Problem is they are two years old and look it. Plus all the leaflets are dog eared and well thumbed. It looks like they dont give a flying f**k

The DVD:Blu-ray ratios aren't even telling the whole story. We don't know what percentage of sales are shifting from DVD to Amazon/iTunes/Zune/Vudu/PSN/Blockbuster. You can buy movies from your damn cellphone now, there is no way that DVD/Bluray can compete with that.  Walmart and Best Buy are going to have little incentive to sell physical discs when they are bundling their own movie stores (Vudu/Cinema Now) into all of the electronic devices that they sell. Same goes for Amazon.

Well as of the first quarter this year, Blu-ray's growth was 3 times that of DD.  Blu-rays revenue for the first 2 months this year were higher than all of last year for DD.  So it looks like Blu-ray is competing quite well. 

All the rest of your post is nonsense, can you still buy Music CDs in Best Buy and Walmart?  What about Amazon do they still sell CDs?

Here are the numbers for week ending 08/22/2010

Blu-ray Ratio 9:91     Horrible Week,  what i cant understand is this is actually up from last year

Top 20 Blu-ray Ratio:  13:87    Horrible week for our Top 20, but only 15 of the Top 20 were available on Blu-ray

Although the news is a little old.   Redbox is going to offer Blu-ray titles for $1.50 a night.  They should start showing up soon at your local kiosks.

http://www.homemediamagazine.com/redbox/blu-ray-rentals-likely-150-a-night-redbox-kiosks-19612

Nonsense?  Are you kidding?  When I was a kid, my local mall had 4 dedicated music stores.  Now, there are none, and there is only one store that even sells a range of CDs (excluding the Hot Topics of the world), and their CD section is always shrinking.  More importantly, I worked in book/CD/DVD/Video Game retail for 9 years, and every year the
music sales went down.  Every year.

Claiming that CDs aren't dying off because you can still buy them in stores is being willfully ignorant of the industry.  If you are old enough to remember what a real music store looked like before Napster hit the net, just compare that mental image to the pitiful, shrinking, neglected music sections in stores that just no longer care about the industry because it's not bringing in the $$$.

Better yet, try to find a single music store, a dedicated music store that doesn't sell a bunch of other media, just CDs, posters, T-Shirts, whatever.  Try to find one of those in a mid to high rent mall/strip mall.  I'll save you some time . . . you won't.

The downfall of the music store in malls had more to do with competition and pricing than dwindling CD sales. With internet sites like Amazon and B&M stores Wal-Mart, Best Buy and the now defunct Circuit City, offering better prices with the same broad selection of titles available,  thats the reason why alot of your music stores in malls shut down.  But if you knew anything about the industry you would already know that.  

As for your last point,  I did fine 2 music stores at the 2 malls nearest to my house.  SO I dont kow what you are talking about

When will the Blu Ray consortium learn

In the UK at my local Superstore

KICK ASS

BLURAY 17.98 GBP

DVD 12.98 GBP

Cmon guys thats too much of a price differential.

People need to be enticed with price parity NOT a 40 percent premium.

Its still lokked at as a premium item thats why,  it will eventually come down in price,  I just hope that it doesnt come to late.

Speaking of late I have to get the numbers posted soon.