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Pretty good news.  20% is a sizable enough portion of sales, and an even larger percent of profit, that studios cannot ignore sales numbers like that.  Like video games, DVD sales are pretty front-loaded, but I expect the final  percentage to be a little bit lower simply because there are more DVD players out there.

http://www.blu-ray.com/news/?id=1888

Iron Man Destroys Blu-ray Retail Records


Posted October 8, 2008 08:55 AM by Josh Dreuth

According to various retail sources, on average, 20% of all 'Iron Man' discs that were sold last week were on the Blu-ray format. For Internet-based stores, that percentage climbed to an astounding 50%. While final unit sales data has yet to be reported, it is expected that 'Iron Man' is the highest selling Blu-ray yet.

Oddly enough, Paramount Home Entertainment has yet to make an official statement on the sales data, but one thing is for sure: If 'Iron Man' hasn't already broken the 1 Million units sold barrier yet, it will likely do so by the end of the year.


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Go blu-ray... FTW.....



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Iron man was the best summer movie hands down!! Well worth the money



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The problem with Blu-Ray is not the sales on big blockbuster action movies like this one, the problem their having is on sales of your everyday movie's i.e. comedies, animated film, etc.




 

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Passenger57 said:
The problem with Blu-Ray is not the sales on big blockbuster action movies like this one, the problem their having is on sales of your everyday movie's i.e. comedies, animated film, etc.

 

 What do you expect when the price of a blu-ray movie is 50% higher than the same movie on DVD?



xman said:
Iron man was the best summer movie hands down!! Well worth the money

 

For me it was the 2nd behind The Dark Knight, they were the best two, and i'll get both of them in Blu-Ray...



Its definitely true that bigger budget and action movies tend to sell better on Blu-Ray than their comedy counterparts, but you could say the same thing about the DVD to VHS transition. Movies that really made the DVD format popular were visual showcases like The Matrix, not comedies.



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It is hard to shed anything but crocodile tears over White House speechwriter Patrick Buchanan's tragic analysis of the Nixon debacle. "It's like Sisyphus," he said. "We rolled the rock all the way up the mountain...and it rolled right back down on us...."  Neither Sisyphus nor the commander of the Light Brigade nor Pat Buchanan had the time or any real inclination to question what they were doing...a martyr, to the bitter end, to a "flawed" cause and a narrow, atavistic concept of conservative politics that has done more damage to itself and the country in less than six years than its liberal enemies could have done in two or three decades. -Hunter S. Thompson

Passenger57 said:
The problem with Blu-Ray is not the sales on big blockbuster action movies like this one, the problem their having is on sales of your everyday movie's i.e. comedies, animated film, etc.

It's because people only want to spend that extra dollar with movies with high cinematic value and special effects.



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Good to hear that Iron Man is selling well on Blu-Ray. I haven't purchased it yet but plan to. Too bad the records it broke may be short live as the Matrix collection gets released next week on October 14th. A lot of people have been waiting for that one. Indiana Jones also gets released next week.



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