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dallas on 01 February 2009

From blu-ray.com:

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In the most recent issue of Home Media Magazine, new Nielsen First Alert data is now reporting that Blu-ray sales represented 17% of the home video market for the week ending January 25th, a new record for the high definition format. The previous record of 16% was reached only a few weeks ago, and makes for some very impressive results for the month of January"

 

Well, this is what has happened after the reduction in prices for the blu-ray players, as a few players have entered at the $200 mark, the funai players, the largest budget BD player available have moved down to $200 as well, bringing the number of BD movies sold up quite significantly.  We have seen Blu-ray movies selling at levels of greater than 10% of all physical meia (basically of bluray and dvd) and it looks like we will continue to see this for a long time to come.  Oh well, at least this is one good thing  going for sony.


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vlad321 on 01 February 2009

I can't help but ask. Considering that soon my toothbrush will start coming with DVD players and that just about everyone and their grandmas has at least one and probably doesn't need to buy more. BluRay is only at 17% a week?



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NYANKS on 01 February 2009

Hopefully Sony reaps tremendous profit from this. They need moniez for advertising! Seriously though, I hope this helps them a lot. I mean, approaching 20% is starting to leave the range of insignifcant sales, no?



dallas on 01 February 2009
vlad321 said:
I can't help but ask. Considering that soon my toothbrush will start coming with DVD players and that just about everyone and their grandmas has at least one and probably doesn't need to buy more. BluRay is only at 17% a week?

Well, that's what the nielsen stats say.... 

 

But seriously, I think that we will see some more growth as more movies are bought, which will lower he prices for movies, and when player prices come down another $25.  Also, the next XBOX might very well be a Blu-ray player, so this will bring the brand forward as well.  Just give it time...

 



vlad321 on 01 February 2009
dallas said:
vlad321 said:
I can't help but ask. Considering that soon my toothbrush will start coming with DVD players and that just about everyone and their grandmas has at least one and probably doesn't need to buy more. BluRay is only at 17% a week?

Well, that's what the nielsen stats say....

 

But seriously, I think that we will see some more growth as more movies are bought, which will lower he prices for movies, and when player prices come down another $25. Also, the next XBOX might very well be a Blu-ray player, so this will bring the brand forward as well. Just give it time...

 

 

I'll be honest, I'd rather not see another iteration of disc storage devices. Magnetic tapes stuck around for far too long too. We need something new. I'm pulling for SSDs and flash sticks to become cheap enough and replace this antiquated technology already.



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HD vs Wii, PC vs HD: http://www.vgchartz.com/forum/thread.php?id=93374

Why Regenerating Health is a crap game mechanic: http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=3986420

gamrReview's broken review scores: http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=4170835

 

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dallas on 01 February 2009

I think that there is a naysayer in every crowd, yo



luisgvm on 01 February 2009

good news i heard that the bluray discs cost more than the dvd discs is that true?.



Dgc1808 on 01 February 2009

The platform's moving pretty well.



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DirtyP2002 on 01 February 2009

In 3-4 years BluRay will be at 50%. But BluRay will never be as big as the DVD was / is. VoD will get a great marketshare. This will probably end up just like music. Remember that itunes is the worlds largest retailer for music. 



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dallas on 01 February 2009
luisgvm said:
good news i heard that the bluray discs cost more than the dvd discs is that true?.

 

 Yep, and i'm sure that dvd will be cheaper until we get to the point where Blu-ray is sold more than dvd.  Anyway, according to www.eproductwars.com/dvd,  blu-ray is about $10-$14 more expensive than dvd at the moment but I see no reason for this disparity to stay as high as it is when the Blu-ray brand is getting stronger every month it seems.  Cheers