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Ascended_Saiyan3 on 20 March 2009
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NanakiXI said:
Ascended_Saiyan3 said:
NanakiXI said:
I think 12% for Blur-Ray is great considering that only 5%(maybe 10% max) of DVD's titles are released on Blue-Ray. I think they still count the sales for DVDs that were released since launch of DVD itself Vs. Blue-Rays smaller catalog. But that is my opinion.

That's because those 10% of DVD titles is where a HUGE chuck of the money goes to (big Hollywood titles).  Those are all on Blu-ray (no "e") unless shot in 480p.

 

 

I'll give you the fact that I spelled Blu-Ray wrong like 3 times(My mistake) but WTF are you talking about? I'm talking about every DVD ever released. Almost every new movie is now released on Blu-Ray. The Blu-Ray catalog is like 5%-10% of DVD's catalog so DVD has much more movies to sell Vs. Blu-Ray. If every movie on DVD (not new talking about new releases but every movie ever) was to be released on Blue-Ray tomorrow and sell for a few months I think we would see a big difference in %.

Plain and simple DVD has a bigger library so DVD sells more. There are more DVD players than Blu-Ray players so DVD sells more. If they equal it would be a different story.

Blu-Ray is a new format and will take time to grow. Keep in mind that the people over the age of 40yrs (not a fact but common sense as they have always bought movies physically and not digitally their whole life) are more likely to convert to Blu-Ray than Download. That is a huge number of people. My grandparents don't have computers but they have a Blu-Ray that can play their DVDs and they buy new movies or scathed DVDs on Blu-Ray.

Last time I checked PPV has been around for while and never stole any thunder from DVDs.

We are, basically, saying the same thing.  There are TONS of indepedent made DVDs released all the time.  That total would make the big Hollywood releases tally up to be around 5 to 10% of the total amount of movies released on DVD.  THose 5 to 10% would also see a Blu-ray release.  That's all I'm saying.