Blu-ray detractors and backers, here's the latest status report on the format:

 According to Adams Media Research, about 9 million Blu-ray discs sold in the US from January through March--up from 4.8 million units sold in the first quarter of last year.

As Bill Hunt over at The Digital Bits says, those numbers are particularly good considering the ongoing recession and the relatively weak title slate early in the year. He adds that the overall rollout for the format is slightly behind DVD "due to the recession," but ahead of VHS.

Adams is also reporting that there are 10.5 million Blu-ray "households." That figure includes both standalone Blu-ray players and Blu-ray-enabled PlayStation 3s.

Here's what I think: With cheaper Blu-ray players on the way and a better slate of Blu-ray discs on tap for later this year, the format's future appears relatively bright. But detractors will surely point to the high price of Blu-ray discs, as well as improvements in digital downloads and streaming services as continued stumbling blocks.

Comments? Is Blu-ray in good shape or doomed to fail?

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Why would he say 10.5 million BR households when there are 21.62 miilion PS3s sold?

PS3 overtracked confirmed? ;)

He's talking about US sales in this article...

 Yeah right...

I guess that makes the silly joke less funny and more silly.

I can live with that!      

sweet!!!

LOL @ city17

@ -not- with?

 come on now!

Doomed to fail until they reduce the media prices. I've bought 3 Blurays over the last year and really cannot justify the cost of them anymore in the current climate. Interesting to note that in these reports before I've always read that Bluray was tracking above DVD, now it's stopped doing so they blame the recession?

Do you not think that that has a possibility of being correct?  Look at game sales which are supposedly recession proof!

It is because they are finally more affordable, even I am picking up more Bluray movies.