Apostrovich on 10 September 2007
First Quarter Sales
The sales figures continue to favor Blu-ray as, according to Home Media Magazine, first quarter sales broke down with a 70/30 split in favor of BD.
Between Jan. 1 and March 31, consumers bought nearly 1.2 million high-definition discs, 832,530 Blu-ray units and 359,300 HD DVDs, according to Home Media Magazine market research. Since inception (HD DVD launched in mid-April 2006, while Blu-ray got rolling two months later, in late June), more than 2.14 million high-definition discs have been purchased by consumers—1.2 million Blu-ray Discs and about 937,500 HD DVDs.
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The reason blockbuster dropped HD DVD is because blu-ray outsold it by 70 percent.
