| HappySqurriel said:
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. |
To make it even worse, it doesn't even seem like this "Blu-Ray outpacing DVD" meme is true. That's what the links I found seem to suggest.
According to the last link DVD outpaced HD-DVD and Blu-Ray added together, by a wide margin. It's time to wake up and smell the coffee.
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