Re: Blu-ray reaches new sales milestone in Europe

On Aug 31, 1:55 pm, "JDrozen" <NOM...@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
http://www.psu.com/Blu-ray-reaches-new-sales-milestone-in-Europe-News...

Sony Pictures Home Entertainment has announced that sales of the company's
Blu-ray format have recently surpassed the 250,000 mark in European
territories.

Meanwhile, sales in North American are nearing the one million mark with the
Blu-ray launch of a series of highly anticipated blockbusters such as
Spider-Man 3 and Close Encounters of the Third Kind.

All of these extraordinary sales are attributed due to a considerably higher
rate of purchase than HD-DVD, having outsold the competing high definition
format by a ratio of approximately 2:1. With major company and mainstream
support aided by Blockbuster's exclusivity, Blu-ray is looking to be the
high definition format of choice, despite recent news of Paramount's
decision to drop its support of the technology.

Blu-Ray inc releasing Blu-Ray pump PR simply to try and fend off the
bad news about Paramount and Dreamworks dropping the format.

The fact is, Blu-Ray relies exclusively on the Ps3 for it's success -
with hardly anyone buying standalone players due to the high cost.

Meanwhile, the fate of HD-DVD is resting on cheap chinese players
being sold through Wal-Mart and similar - whih means it wil reach the
mass market far sooner than Blu-Ray. That's when the tide will turn.

What you fail to point out, JDork, is that if Blu-Ray has yet to even
ship 1.5 million DISKS worldwide, that is pretty damn poor. Less than
half the install base of PS3 owners are bothering with the format -
0.5 disks and less per owner.

1.25 million sales in Europe and the US to date = less than 1% of the
DVD market in the same time.

Blu-Ray and HD-DVD hardly even register on most consumers shopping
lists yet, and only when a player hits $200 will anyone care outside
PS3 fan boys and AV enthusiasts.

Meanwhile, the PS3 is still being resoundly beaten by the Wii and 360
everywhere except Japan, where only the Wii beats it.

Lie down now, in your pool, tadpole.




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