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scottie on 17 September 2009

These survey things crack me up.

Let me guess, without opening up the link.

They count each PS3 sold as a Blu Ray player (because it can play blu rays, fair enough)
They do not count each PS3 sold as a DVD player, nor do they count 360s (huh? why?)
They do not count the sales of each computer that contains a dvd player (ie all of them. Why? Why for the love of all that is science would they do this??)
They probably however count the sales of each computer with a blu ray drive as a blu ray sales (pardon? He's crazy)
They count only America (fair enough, though it will bias the results towards blu ray winning)

*Opens link*

Now that's surprising. I was expecting to open the link to find it full of bad science. I opened it to find it was devoid of any form of science at all... Why are we giving these charlatans the website hits they so sorely crave?



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reptile168 on 17 September 2009

dvd hardware is lowering because everyone has 3 dvd players at home, and most people that buy them now are replacing the broken dvd player...

I'm sure if we add PS3 sales, bluray players would have taken the lead.



scottie on 17 September 2009

and if we add PS3, PS2 and 360 sales to those of DVD players...



Kasz216 on 17 September 2009
ssj12 said:
Carl2291 said:
ssj12 said:
NYANKS said:
Can anyone put a number on how much Sony could stand to profit if Blu-ray ever reached the sales levels of DVD? Like a very rough estimation would suffice!

Zero

Dont they own a major share in Blu-ray?

Or am i mistaken?

They have none at all. They might have developed it but profits are split by the collective body of the BDA, nothing specifically goes directly to Sony.

If they earned money like that Sony and Phillips, who both owns the patents for CDs, would have earned billions on ever CD sold in the world. But they don't, instead any "royalties" for CD go to whatever the collective body is that manage CD standards (probably DVD Forum).

Toshiba earned billions of DVD royalties... until their patents ran out anyway.

Though 10 cents per disc is a ridiculious claim.  Toshiba made something like 1 cent a disc... and that was considered expensive.



COKTOE on 17 September 2009
ssj12 said:
COKTOE said:
'The Dewey Cox Story' was $47! friggin dollars on BR at HMV (in Canada) last time I checked. Ridiculous! That was the worst example of an overpriced BR I've come across. I do buy BR's though, have 18 discs including the Planet Earth box-set and Terminator: Sarah Connor Chronicles season one set. Still a bit pricy for a lot of BR's, but I've noticed the gap between the cost os DVD's and BR's narrowing. When 'Seth Mcfarlane's Cavalcade of Cartoon Comedy' came out here, the BR was the same cost as the DVD ($20).

but your in Canada. everything released in canada is overpriced... isnt the PS3 there still like $500?

Surely you Jest. Things were really wacky when I was a kid. $99 for NES Double Dragon and $120 for Phantasy Star 2 are two of my most vivid memories of overpriced Canadian software. But my mom, dad and I went to the U.S. 2 or three times a year for cross-border shopping back then so I always picked-up 3-4 games with my paper-route money. In the unlikely event you're serious, things are at about parity now for software and hardware. PS3 is $299 and games are about the same cost as the U.S. And hey, I got Batman:AA for $38!



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CDiablo on 17 September 2009

I dont believe it, I know a shitton of people from all walks of life and dont know a single one with a BR player besides myself. BR rentals at the Video store are always in stock and they only get like 2-5 copies of each movie(this may anecdotal since BR buyers might be more prone to buy.)



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Paperdiego on 17 September 2009
Akvod said:
Paperdiego said:
i hope this means the the prices of Blu-rays will come down now.
seriously $29.99 is way to much for a standard Blu-ray...


the Planet Earth blu-ray collection i got for Christmas last year.... well i am in love
(=

I'm eyeing that too >.< It's around 60 bucks on Amazon I think.

I only saw a few episode, but loved them (I loved the little bit with the fungus and ant)

do it! its so good.

 

wow and only 60? i remember looking at it last year and it was like 90$

prices have come down some (=



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selnor on 17 September 2009

To give everyone a more realistic outlook. This is American figures I'm about to post. Barein mind the site states similar to VGChartz that the figures are only as good as the sources.

Now this is actual software % of sales of films right now. Between Blu Ray and DVD.

Sep 6th 2009: Blu Ray = 11%        DVD = 89%

August 30th 2009:  Blu Ray = 7%        DVD = 93%

August 23rd 2009: BluRay = 8%         DVD = 92%

August 16th 2009: BluRay = 11%        DVD = 89%

August 9th 2009: BluRay = 9%              DVD = 91%

 

 

 

Back in Feb 1st 2009: BluRay = 14%                 DVD = 86%

Then October 5th 2008: BluRay = 13%              DVD = 87%

 

Obviously the actual film sales speak for themselves. And have been declining all year. Dont be fooled, BluRay is really struggling. And these film sales are why the prices remain sky high.

Source:

www.blu-raystats.com/marketshare/index.php

 

 



Grimes on 17 September 2009
selnor said:

To give everyone a more realistic outlook. This is American figures I'm about to post. Barein mind the site states similar to VGChartz that the figures are only as good as the sources.

Now this is actual software % of sales of films right now. Between Blu Ray and DVD.

Sep 6th 2009: Blu Ray = 11%        DVD = 89%

 

Obviously the actual film sales speak for themselves. And have been declining all year. Dont be fooled, BluRay is really struggling. And these film sales are why the prices remain sky high.

Source:

www.blu-raystats.com/marketshare/index.php

 

 

Isn't this based off of the top 20 titles? The actual marketshare is subtantially lower if you were to includes the thousands of titles not in the top 20. Also there are blank media sales which I'm sure dvd completely dominates.



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Feylic on 17 September 2009
selnor said:

To give everyone a more realistic outlook. This is American figures I'm about to post. Barein mind the site states similar to VGChartz that the figures are only as good as the sources.

Now this is actual software % of sales of films right now. Between Blu Ray and DVD.

Sep 6th 2009: Blu Ray = 11%        DVD = 89%

August 30th 2009:  Blu Ray = 7%        DVD = 93%

August 23rd 2009: BluRay = 8%         DVD = 92%

August 16th 2009: BluRay = 11%        DVD = 89%

August 9th 2009: BluRay = 9%              DVD = 91%

 

 

 

Back in Feb 1st 2009: BluRay = 14%                 DVD = 86%

Then October 5th 2008: BluRay = 13%              DVD = 87%

 

Obviously the actual film sales speak for themselves. And have been declining all year. Dont be fooled, BluRay is really struggling. And these film sales are why the prices remain sky high slightly higher.

Source:

www.blu-raystats.com/marketshare/index.php

 

 

Fixed.