Blu-ray is doing FINE, haters need to give it up.

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deathgod33 on 09 May 2009

if only they can lower the price a bit of the movies

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kowenicki said:
Well Blu-ray is doing great... but this has nothing to do with gaming anymore... blu ray players are cheaper than the PS3. Blu ray popularity will not drive PS3 sales in any way any more, that time has gone.

My friend, Blu Ray never drove the PS3 sales anywhere. It was vice versa with the PS3 driving Blu Ray sales. In a poetic sense, the PS3 is the mother from which Blu Ray forced itself into the world from the PS3 womb.

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S.T.A.G.E. on 09 May 2009

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FKNetwork is correct, Bluray isn't doing as well as expected in the UK. I hope Bluray does take off mind you.

Stop with the games only possible on Bluray bullshit guys, it's pathetic by the way.

As long as over 5 million PS3's have been sold in the UK, Blu Ray is safe there until people decide to buy stand alones. Some stores might stop stocking them, but whereever there is an installed base, Blu Ray movies will continue to be shipped. I went to the UK a couple years ago and I saw a Blockbuster Video store over there. Guess what, Sony got Blockbuster to have an HD exclusivity contract in which they they only sell Blu Ray as an HD alternative. That was one of the final nails in the coffin for HD-DVD. DVD's still sell like Hotcakes at Blockbuster anyway.

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kowenicki said:
@STAGE

5 million PS3's in the UK? there are 2 million.......

I love blu-rays and they will take off here in the UK.

You can get stand alone players now for £140 here, less than half the price of a PS3.

OOps! My mistake for saying 5 M in the UK. Over 5 M in Europe.

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mztazmz said:

Almost every week I can't help but come across someone's ill-informed topic about how Blu-ray is doing soooooo bad compared to DVD. And that guy from IGN made the worst arguement I've ever heard.

Anyways, here's some news that puts things in perspective: http://www.audioholics.com/news/industry-news/blu-ray-report-npd-group

Although, not specifically in this article, Blu-ray's adoption rate for hardware and software is moving along faster than DVD's rate at the time it launched back around 1997. And to top it off, you need to buy an HDTV to enjoy Blu-ray, which makes for a smaller demograph. DVD on the other hand could be enjoyed by anyone with a TV(99.9% of the population)

Blue Ray is awesome!

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FKNetwork said:
Blu Ray isn't doing very well at all in the UK (not sure about other places in the world), a lot of stores have started reducing the blu ray selling areas and increasing the dvd selling space again, some stores no longer sell bluray films here and some are heading that way too,

You can get decent blu ray players in the UK from £99.99p but noone seems to want them, the only way they get sold is when they are given away with new tv's etc,

RIP Bluray.....

Ok, so you're saying that beacuse of one market the Bluray is doomed?

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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.

Oh look, a chart based on revenue! What a completely skewed picture! Lets see Revenue does not equal profits. Also worth noting DVD players and DVD movie prices are cheaper and have likely gotten cheaper since last year, so their "revenue" will of course fall. Blu-Ray revenue should have also fallen slightly given to price decreases, but at the same time it should increase due to higher demand by those price reductions.

The DVD player market is so saturated and yet it still claims 90% of the revenue which undoubtedly comes from mostly disc sales. So when most new DVD's are $15-20 and then drop down to $10-15 after a few months, it is pretty clear why the revenue would be slightly decreasing on DVD and slightly increasing on the $30 Blu-Ray disc sales.