Wow maybe Sony was right about Blu-ray?

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Magnific0 said:
Seems I was able to answer one of my questions:

http://sanjose.bizjournals.com/sanjose/stories/2002/01/07/daily34.html

An excerpt:

"One out of every four U.S. homes is equipped with a DVD player, leading to DVD sales topping sales of VHS tapes for the first time, according to figures released Tuesday at the Consumer Electronics Show by the DVD Entertainment Group.

Consumers spent $4.6 billion buying DVDs, 2.4 times more than in 2000, an increase that put DVD purchases ahead of VHS purchases for the first time despite an installed player base of 25 million DVD households versus a VCR installed player base of 96 million households, it says."


So 25 million DVD players by the end of 2001. Roughly 4 years after the introduction of the format to the market.

 BD still has 2 years to hit that mark, yet people think it can't.What is even more incredible about what you just posted is that 3 years prior they only sold 1.1 million in the entire year.

People think BD is going to fail because they expect all successful products to start out like the Wii, lost cost, huge sales. Unfortunately optical media doesn't work that way.