MikeB on 11 January 2009
I added a bit more to the original post:
Update:
"It turned out to be a phenomenal year for Blu-ray," said Tom Adams of Adams Media Research. In the fourth quarter of 2008, which is only too important for tech companies, U.S. consumers bought up 28.6 million Blu-ray titles."
http://news.therecord.com/printArticle/469824
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/16575.cfm
http://tech.yahoo.com/news/ap/20090109/ap_on_hi_te/tec_gadget_show_blu_ray
According to Videoscan 22.7 million DVDs were sold for North America in 1999 as a whole.
Older news:
- Blu-Ray bestseller Dark Knight sold 1.7 million units its first week in 2008.
- For comparison Matrix DVD bestseller in 1999 sold 780K units its first week.
"It turned out to be a phenomenal year for Blu-ray," said Tom Adams of Adams Media Research. In the fourth quarter of 2008, which is only too important for tech companies, U.S. consumers bought up 28.6 million Blu-ray titles."
http://news.therecord.com/printArticle/469824
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/16575.cfm
http://tech.yahoo.com/news/ap/20090109/ap_on_hi_te/tec_gadget_show_blu_ray
According to Videoscan 22.7 million DVDs were sold for North America in 1999 as a whole.
Older news:
- Blu-Ray bestseller Dark Knight sold 1.7 million units its first week in 2008.
- For comparison Matrix DVD bestseller in 1999 sold 780K units its first week.
Seems to me many PS3 users who bought the console mainly for gaming purposes, do already take usage of the Blu-Ray movie playback functionality (just like many who bought a PS3 mainly for multi-media purposes buy games as well).
Judging from these figures Blu-Ray is outperforming DVD and this is great as DVD was the fastest adopted format ever. Blu-Ray does not need to beat DVD taking equal timeframes this early to be a huge success, but it's IMO great that it does.
So far the high definition market isn't slowing down, judging from holiday sales. Maybe people will more likely wait with big purchases like a new car (maybe buy a second hand one) or house, rather than cut costs on relatively cheap devices which provide people entertainment through a weaker economy.
