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HappySqurriel on 06 August 2008
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WiiStation360 said:
NJ5 said:
slimeattack said:
There are still skeptics who don't believe in Blu-ray adoption... Maybe look at the sales data. Blu-ray sales are up 300% from last year. Blu-ray players are selling better than DVD players at the same time point. Do you guys expect blu-ray to have negative sales?

Blu-Ray sales up 300% from what value? Percentages don't mean much when we're talking about small values.

Blu-ray players selling better than DVD players at the same time point - source for this?

 

 

Blu-ray has outpaced DVD adoption

 

UMD also outpaced DVD adoption, and look where it is now ...

DVD adoption was very slow for the first couple of years because it was only available in very expensive (stand alone) DVD players, and people were reluctant to upgrade to a disc based movie format after Laser-Disc's failure. When people (like myself) started getting DVD players 'Free' when you bought your PC, stand alone players hit $100, and the PS2 was released DVD sales took off at an alarming rate. I'm not sure if it was true, but after Christmas 2001 one of my friends (who worked at futureshop) claimed that stand alone DVD players outsold the PS2, XBox, and Gamecube combined in October, November and December.

The fact that many formats can claim to have been adopted faster than DVD at this point in its life has far more to do with them being included in a product that has value outside of being a movie player, and how long it took to get people interested in DVD, then it is about how popular the format is.