That was also anti-customer. Do you think it's justified to try and wrangle customers into the preferred format of the company?

As for whether that was what got DVD going, correlation is not causation. There was more benefit to customers upgrading to DVD than there is from DVD to blu ray.

Man... I hate the government. I was fine just watching TV with an antenna but now I need a converter box. USA IS SO ANTI PEOPLES NEEDS!

Ah, "everyone does it", the calling card of the morally astute. Do you know what the defenders of the Catholic church said about the rampant child abuse? "Everybody was doing it at the time".

(I'm not saying they're on the same level, that would be absurd, however "everybody does it" has never been a defence)

Yes I do think it is justified, especially since a group of companies payed for billions in R&D work for that new format. And it has been accepted by the movie industry as the successor format, its just the consumer who is fighting the change.  And just like last time companies are going to start dropping support for the old format and move to the new one.  The cycle is just repeating itself,  its like any other product anymore.

Fixed that last part for you.

Ah "insults", the calling card of people who ran out of good arguements

someone should tell him there is a difference between running a business and running a church. Businesses are in the industry to make money. Not give the consumer what they want. They give the consumer what the consumer thinks he needs and they think they need it because of the company advertising it that way.

Companies aren't in the charity business.

Numbers for week ending 09/06/09

Blu-ray had a decent rebound from the last 2 dissappointing weeks.  Blu-ray ratio is at 11:89.   Blu-ray was up 93.2% YoY while DVD was down 19.5% and total revenue was down 13.8%

Top 20 Selling Movies

Top 20 Selling Blu-rays

Not surprised to see Gladiator and Braveheart up there with the deals they had on them last week.  It was a decent week overall for Blu-ray but it could've been better. Although with the recent spike in PS3 hardware sales these numbers may start to increase gradually.  Which will make the coming weeks interesting to see if those new PS3 owners are using one of the great features of the PS3.

BluRay is up 93% YoY

wow

Some weeks it was up even higher than that,  the week The Watchmen released it was up over #00% YoY

The weekly numbers arent due for a couple more days but I ran across a few more charts that are interesting. 

Top 50 Blu-ray movies of all time.  

Not really surprised at the top 3.   I did expect Transformers, #20, to be a little higher but it did come out alot later on Blu-ray than it did on DVD.  Watchmen already at #16 despite only being out for about a month is impressive. 

Top 20 Blu-ray Movies Year-to-Date

Blu-ray Weekly Units Sales