Well Blu Ray is winning market over here compared to DVD of course.
A half year ago the Blu Ray section was almost hidden in a forgotten corner close to movies almost no one cared about (Fitness movies as example).
Now it has growed a lot and take 1/10 of the total dvd section.
Can't say much about sales though.
New Numbers up, Blu-ray sales down 7%
Neilson Stopped Tracking Blu-ray vs HD-DVD as of 5/4/08. HD-DVD stock is starting to hit all time lows. I've started a new format on how to post Neilson's numbers each week due to the addition of percentages and cash spent on both the DVD and Blu-ray formats.
5/4:
* DVD sales down 5.16% to $101.25
* Blu-ray sales down 23.04% to $7.08m
* DVD 95% Blu-ray 5%
* ALTD: 94/6
Yikes...maybe with cheeaper players, more people will adopt blu-ray, but it's going to be a tough road until the holiday season, and maybe the econonmy in the US will pick up for big purhcases of HDTVs...it's not looking good tho, imho.
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starcraft said:
I'm pretty sure if anyone else questioned a member's mental capacity (especially whilst displaying horrible grammar) (this requires commas and not brackets, unlike this addition) they would be banned. Pause for a moment and look at this website's name. (a comma is your friend here) It begins with "VG." (you are not quating anything and even if you were the quotation mark comes before the full stop) "VG" (no quote) does not stand for Blu-Ray, DVD or HD DVD. It stands for Video Games. So what your (you are) actually doing is posting something completely unrelated to video game sales on a video game sales forum. By your standard, (you should have used this comma earlier, not here!) we could just as well start threads up in this forum about microwave or refrigerator sales and expect them to be considered relevant. If your (you are) actually going to stand by what you just said, I expect you'll (contaction should not be used in written English unless you are making a direct quote) follow it up by ceding your future right to lock any threads on grounds of relevance? (Use a full stop instead of a question mark since you are not asking a question)
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Everybody makes grammar mistakes (I have made several in this post),so you should not be to quick to point out others faults.
| heruamon said: Yikes...maybe with cheeaper players, more people will adopt blu-ray, but it's going to be a tough road until the holiday season, and maybe the econonmy in the US will pick up for big purhcases of HDTVs...it's not looking good tho, imho. |
Purchase of HD tvs is likely to have almost no effect.
Think about it this way... the people who care most about HD graphics are likely the people who have already bought HD TVs. The vast majority of them don't care about Blu-ray right now, considering upscaling DVD players good enough.
NPD thinks that most people wont' jump to blu-ray until players are at $200 a piece... and even then i imagine that's when they think the first big "break" will happen, not a majority or anything.
Any reason your using revenue instead of straight numbers of movies sold SSJ?
Total movies sold is what people like NPD and analyists are going to use as the important indicators.
That's why they compare total number of blu-ray players sold and not player revenues.
Kasz216 said:
Purchase of HD tvs is likely to have almost no effect. Think about it this way... the people who care most about HD graphics are likely the people who have already bought HD TVs. The vast majority of them don't care about Blu-ray right now, considering upscaling DVD players good enough. NPD thinks that most people wont' jump to blu-ray until players are at $200 a piece... and even then i imagine that's when they think the first big "break" will happen, not a majority or anything. That's why they compare total number of blu-ray players sold and not player revenues. |
It's all Neilson is giving.
| heruamon said: Yikes...maybe with cheeaper players, more people will adopt blu-ray, but it's going to be a tough road until the holiday season, and maybe the econonmy in the US will pick up for big purhcases of HDTVs...it's not looking good tho, imho. |
Just have some (Timed)-Exclusive Blu Ray movies like the new James bond/Indiana Jones etc;.
I can't wait til this summer's blockbusters hit Blu-Ray. I definitely want both Iron Man and Speed Racer, as well as any of the other gems that come along. It will be a great way to test how much Blu-Ray has grown compared to last year.
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Wow just read through this forum and I can't believe the heat in this thread. I bet starcraft would not have cared about this thread if HD DVD was still around.
Blu ray is very relevant to blu ray sales because it is the HD disk format and a key advantage of the PS3 and probably why it is selling better in America.
Further, movie downloads right now should not compare against disk sales because it should be compared against renting at like block buster and net flix. You don't keep downloaded movies...you dont keep rented movies. Movie sales are for people who want to keep the movie.
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