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MikeB said:

@ FKNetwork

Blu Ray isn't doing very well at all in the UK (not sure about other places in the world),


I think 3.7 million movies sold last year (2008) for the UK is a pretty honorable result at this point, of this 1.5 million units were sold in December which represents a 400% year over year increase for December.

The UK is only lagging behind the US and Japan with regard to adoption, the US saw Blu-Ray sales for last year rise by 320%.

ome stores no longer sell bluray films here and some are heading that way too


Strange place you're living. Retailers around here tell me how happy they are with Blu-Ray, they now use it to show off the clarity of the HDTVs they are selling. In their opinion this makes a huge difference with customer perception (sometimes noting, it's like looking through a window!).

Because FKNetwork lives in a place where things are not going as well for Blu-ray as you want you label it a "strange place"?  WTF?  Its a real place, one Sony needs to worry about, just like the rest of the worldwide market.

And these marketing surveys you are doing at retailers in the Netherlands where you talk about the great reaction from retailers.  Well sorry, we can't trust someone who has been in talks with Sony for their own business on this.  You are not a neutral source.

 



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FKNetwork said:

You seen our new signatures mike? lol

 

Worth noting that, like several of us before, this is another PS3 owner using the sig.



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this is pretty much the trend since the beginning of the year. DVD down, Blu-ray up in the USA. So we might want to start the DVD is DOOMED threads now.



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ssj12 said:

 

this is pretty much the trend since the beginning of the year. DVD down, Blu-ray up in the USA. So we might want to start the DVD is DOOMED threads now.

ZOMG! DVD IS DOOOOOOOOOOOMED!!



                            

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Blu Ray will only continue to grow so no need to worry!!!!!!



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blu-ray is doing ok, but not good or fine. whats stopping blu-ray from really exceeding is the price of the movies still too damn much $25 and up for a movie not looking much better from a regular dvd is the main reason dvd's will be around for a good while and why blu-rays wont get the market it should. if more companies would sell their blu-ray movies at $20 like universal does and stores like target,best buy,online retailers,toys'r'us,walmart and more would sell them at $20, then blu-ray would really take off like supporters of the format want it too. i own 75 blu-ray's, i bought most of them at christmas when they are 50% off and will continue to do that.



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ROBOTECHHEAVEN said:
blu-ray is doing ok, but not good or fine. whats stopping blu-ray from really exceeding is the price of the movies still too damn much $25 and up for a movie not looking much better from a regular dvd is the main reason dvd's will be around for a good while and why blu-rays wont get the market it should. if more companies would sell their blu-ray movies at $20 like universal does and stores like target,best buy,online retailers,toys'r'us,walmart and more would sell them at $20, then blu-ray would really take off like supporters of the format want it too. i own 75 blu-ray's, i bought most of them at christmas when they are 50% off and will continue to do that.

 

Good post!  



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Meh, they're just too expensive for the average joe, compared to DVD's nowadays. And yes there's also the matter of SD tvs, which a lot of people still own.

But it's not like BR is d00med or anything..



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