BD Players JUMPED to a staggering 400k for the first part of 2009!! Wow! :O

[ChichiriMuyo]

Paperdiego said:

ChichiriMuyo said:

Paperdiego said:
lol i wouldn't consider that "staggering".


dvd did TONS better during the same time in its life.

 

Really?  That's strange.  At the beginning of the year the BR adoption rate was dramitcally higehr than DVD's rate.

 

not any more

 

Indeed.  At the equivalent time DVD sold ~1.2 million units to BR's 400k.  Of course, there wasn't an on-going recession in 2000.  It wasn't until a year later that the tech industries began to waver.  If we throw the PS3 in the mix (since the PS2 still didn't exist at this point in DVD's life) though, we still see BR ahead by 30% or more.  The key will be this Christmas.  As the BR standard has already replaced DVD in Japan, it's fully possible that BR can still come out ahead in the west.