| Shadow1980 said: Hope this helps:
Blu-ray is experiencing solid growth, but not as fast as that experienced by DVD. That can be blamed largely on HDTV not yet being universal. Only 77% of U.S. households have an HDTV. Meanwhile, color TVs were in over 95% of households by time DVD hit the market. In 1997, essentially every household in America that wanted a color TV had one, and once DVD players became affordable adoption rates exploded, going from about 10% in 2000 to around 70% by 2004. It was the most rapidly-adopted consumer tech to date. Blu-ray has had to deal with having came out at a time when HDTVs were not in many homes. When Blu-ray was first made commercially available in 2006, less than 10% of U.S. homes had an HDTV. HDTV didn't reach 50% penetration until 2010, and at this rate it's still going to be at least a few more years before it reaches 90+%. It may take the remaining CRT TVs (which were discontinued by all major TV manufacturers some 7 years ago) to cease functioning to push the remaining holdouts into buying HDTVs. While total Blu-ray penetration is still at just under 60% overall, it is in 75% of HDTV-owning households (and climbing rapidly; in 2012 only 25% of homes and just over a third of HDTV homes had a Blu-ray player). Blu-ray penetration may grow even more rapidly thanks to the PS4 and XBO being on the market. P.S.: I fell asleep last night before I clicked "Submit." I was sick and had a splitting headache to boot. Sorry if anything like the charts I posted earlier were already posted. |
thank you so much for that post! Really was what I was looking for. I've updated the OP and put them in so thank you again.
Really interesting as well to see that Blu ray is now the market leader and will only grow. Thank God sony killed off the HD-DVD early so that Blu Ray could reach it's full potential ASAP. And the PS3 having it in really moved it forward. Sony may be bad for shareholders but they're good for us lol.
PS: Just as well there wasn't something else on your screen when you fell asleep!
