Blu-rays sale percentage tracking

[Vetteman94]

D-FENS said:

Vetteman94 said:

cool8man said:

The DVD:Blu-ray ratios aren't even telling the whole story. We don't know what percentage of sales are shifting from DVD to Amazon/iTunes/Zune/Vudu/PSN/Blockbuster. You can buy movies from your damn cellphone now, there is no way that DVD/Bluray can compete with that.  Walmart and Best Buy are going to have little incentive to sell physical discs when they are bundling their own movie stores (Vudu/Cinema Now) into all of the electronic devices that they sell. Same goes for Amazon.

Well as of the first quarter this year, Blu-ray's growth was 3 times that of DD.  Blu-rays revenue for the first 2 months this year were higher than all of last year for DD.  So it looks like Blu-ray is competing quite well. 

All the rest of your post is nonsense, can you still buy Music CDs in Best Buy and Walmart?  What about Amazon do they still sell CDs?

Nonsense?  Are you kidding?  When I was a kid, my local mall had 4 dedicated music stores.  Now, there are none, and there is only one store that even sells a range of CDs (excluding the Hot Topics of the world), and their CD section is always shrinking.  More importantly, I worked in book/CD/DVD/Video Game retail for 9 years, and every year the
music sales went down.  Every year.

Claiming that CDs aren't dying off because you can still buy them in stores is being willfully ignorant of the industry.  If you are old enough to remember what a real music store looked like before Napster hit the net, just compare that mental image to the pitiful, shrinking, neglected music sections in stores that just no longer care about the industry because it's not bringing in the $$$.

Better yet, try to find a single music store, a dedicated music store that doesn't sell a bunch of other media, just CDs, posters, T-Shirts, whatever.  Try to find one of those in a mid to high rent mall/strip mall.  I'll save you some time . . . you won't.

The downfall of the music store in malls had more to do with competition and pricing than dwindling CD sales. With internet sites like Amazon and B&M stores Wal-Mart, Best Buy and the now defunct Circuit City, offering better prices with the same broad selection of titles available,  thats the reason why alot of your music stores in malls shut down.  But if you knew anything about the industry you would already know that.  

As for your last point,  I did fine 2 music stores at the 2 malls nearest to my house.  SO I dont kow what you are talking about