| selnor said: Ah I see what is going on here. Yes bluray increased from 2009 - 2010 on itself by around 49%. Sales of actual discs. Which isn't that much considering how many it was selling in 2009. And as screen digest pointed out, that its disappointing. Also the 20% maeketshare figure in your links is physical media only. Now both screen digest and chart track UK show online digital movie download sector increasing on itself by 89% in the same time frame. And expect that to increase to 150% in the next year. Showing Zune and iTunes accounting for 90% of the sector. Now with that in mind, screen digest and chart track UK show the total marketshare when digital downloads and streams included that DVD fell 23%, bluray although better itself and DVD fell 14%, and DD rose 37%. Based over the last 2 years as I originally said. So no I'm not lying. And I did all that using the websites you linked to. I was referring to total marketshare. The fact that DD is the fastest growing sector upon itself tells everyone instantly that DD will gain marketshare over everything else, meaning blurays marketshare decreased because its own growth was not substantial enough. DD is to readily available in the UK. Please look at the full figures. Thanks. |
Blu-ray is growing, DD is growing, both at the expense of DVD. DD is growing faster by %, but as it is still only about a third of the value of Blu-ray, that is hardly difficult to do. Now: please provide some verifiable information that agrees with you. Although it seems you have a hard time reading numbers? Where does that 20% marketshare figure come from? The sources I provided says that Blu-ray and DD together have 13% of the market, with Blu-ray accounting for about 10% of that.
Anyway, here are some previous comments by you (in this thread, verifiable by anyone reading this):
"In fact if you look up on Bing or Google blurays sales compared to HD downloads last year, downloads was alot more"
"Bluray has peaked"
"Not to mention the dwindling floor slace given to bluray films."
"You never here anyone talk about bluray or suggest bluray. But many are downloading films"
"Obviously they do sell. But it is very poor."
"It would seem us is very different to UK where bluray is concerned."
"Wow us is different. I was referring to UK. Where bluray has dropped 14% in 2 years. And DD has risen 39%."
(This in response to Rainbird: "DD had 12.2% of the total movie revenue (with a growth of 21.9% compared to 2009), while blu-ray had about 18-18.5% (derived from numbers in the first link with this link) of the total movie revenue (retail sales growing 64.2% and rentals growing 105.5% compared to 2009).")
"Overall as a whole from end of 2008 till 2010. Bluray dropped 14% in UK."
Please selnor: Provide us with some sources, use the correct numbers, and write something we can take seriously.
So far, everyone but you have managed to support their views.
Everyone else: I think I have showed clearly that Blu-ray is growing in the UK and that it is currently a far bigger format than DD. My view is that given its projected growth, and the limitations of DD (in some markets at the very least), I can see no good reason to not include it in a device intended to be general entertainment box.
The playback capabilites of the X360 were not underspecced in my opinion, but sticking to the same specs, both for playback and network speeds, in the next generation will be a mistake (provided that the nextbox will follow up on the promise of all-in-one entertainement).
