I had a hunch Iron Man would kick start the Blue Ray holyday season !

[Ail]

Sullla said:

Day One/Week One numbers are always going to cast Blu-Ray in an overly favorable ligbt, because the extreme videophiles who rush out to buy a new release as soon as it comes out are the same people who are willing to shell out big money for HD equipment.

A better evaluation would be comparing sales of Blu-Ray against DVD over, say, six months to a year. That's a major reason why Blu-Ray sales have been so slow when new releases weren't appearing - all the videophiles buy them right away at release.

I'm sure the Blu-Ray group will crow about the amazing revenue for week one sales of Iron Man... but that's not really going to tell us much one way or another.

PS: Tracking "market share" is a great way to disguise actual performance.

In the end how much $ they can make out of selling Blue Ray will determine its success for all the movie studios, so it's an important number for them...

 

Sure right now you can find plenty of DVD for 5$, but do you really think doing that over the long run is a susbtainable business seeing how much it cost to make a movie ? To be honest it looks more to me like a clearance sale to make room for new products...

 

PS : The Blue Ray was 25.99$ at Best Buy but they were out of stock :( I had to fork 30$ for it at WallMart..

Still expensive but new Blue Ray releases were 33$ at Best Buy 9 months ago so the price is going down.