Nielsen numbers - Blu Ray : DVD = 12% : 88% for the week ending 26th October, 2008

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lwhatee said:

tedsteriscool said:
I just read that in Japan Blu-Ray makes up 30% of the market! Ill get a link and post it later.

U read it wrong

in Japan Blu ray HW sales is outpacing DVD HW sales by 30%

in JAPAN DVD is done

US/EUROPE to go

BTW Digital distribution make up for just 0.5% of total weekly movie sales

DD will never take off. It is just a niche thing

No - YOU read it wrong:

 - Moreover, those shipments accounted for 31% of "overall shipments of DVD equipment on a volume basis."

So, 31% of the SHIPMENT of "DVD equipment" supported BluRay.

I know that most new PC DVD drives are BluRay compatible (I almost bought one the other week) - and these will probably be included in the figures.

It makes perfect sense that as cost comes down, BluRay will start to replace DVD - as the discs simply hold more data (and these drives are backwards compatible).

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And where did you pull this "0.5%" figure from? Which services does it include? AppleTV? Nexflix? 360? Tivo? I can't even imagine how someone could track DD sales - especially across 10-20 competing services?