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Blu Ray disc sales do.
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....does that mean sales have plumetted by 84%? :0)
I'd say it's totally irrelevant looking at percentages without knowing how many Blu-rays were shifted.
DVD sales were also up 10% over the same week last year, so doesn't exactly demonstrate Blu-Ray is replacing DVD despite BR's massive increase in percentages.
If every hardcore enthusiast bought himself two discs this week instead of one, that would account for a 100% increase in itself.
Personally I'm buying less Blu-Rays and renting more. :0)
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Just kidding. Maybe only 1% is me.
I have probably bought 1000% increase in BD over last year. 2009 was the year that BD pricing got "real". In the U.S. at least, where I get almost all my BD.
In Canada, we are where the U.S. was last year re the DVD/BD price differential. The difference is DVD is still very profitable in Canada, long after a decline in the U.S., so BD doesn't have to fill a missing profit niche here. Yet. Like many others have said, when a BD is "appropriate" for the title, if the DVD/BD price diff is too much, then I just don't buy either. The studios have tweaked to this behavior I think.
If you sell 10 in one year and 22 the next year, that's 220%. Doesn't mean the raw numbers are massive. Last year at this time there were at most 50 titles in BluRay in our superstores here, in Hamburg. Now there are hundreds.
With the huge marketing campaign towards HDTV and lots of software available, the increase is not at all surprising.
I bought a BluRay player even though my display is not full high definition, and although the quality and sound is better, the production values of the film/sound are more important than the delivery medium.
- I think we all still enjoy a good film on VHS.
What gets me is that the conglomerates have to keep introducing new technology and patent it, otherwise they die out. I find that a new delivery media ever 8-10 years does not improve the quality of the overall experience.
It does create profits, though, because people are always wanting and being sold on 'new and improved'.
I also am using a non-HD display (X1 PJ), so maybe that's part of the reason. But I also find that there are movies in SD that look much better than others in BD. I watched I-Robot a while back in SD and the PQ was stunning on my 110" screen. A BD rental the same weekend (can't recall, but I think it was a Pirates movie, which in itself is a way over-rated flick IMO, but then I am old) was far less stellar.
Now that I have my raised rear seat area I want to have a Star Trek invite, I wonder how the BD transfer is on that flick.
My thoughts also on the growth rate. Just over double from the previous year doesn't seem all that high to me, thought it would have been higher TBH.
Yes, transfer quality is an issue, and always will be no matter what the media. The BD of the new Star Trek movie is good.
"Just over double from the previous year doesn't seem all that high to me, thought it would have been higher TBH."
Me too, but doesn't it sound much more impressive if you say it grew 224%?
Besides, that's profits, I wonder what the unit numbers are.
I do think the recession has taken a bite out of BD's potential growth.
Jack
Sometimes my old Infocus X1 PJ (non HD) amazes me. The sound (expected) and picture quality was great on this flick. Not the best dialogue inteligibility, but otherwise a good system test (great sub(s) test), no doubt. Everybody that came over was amazed. Particularly my buddy who has a 42/46" 120Hz 1080p Samsung LCD.
I'll rent it soon.
224% may sound better to some, but it all sounds the same in my head TBH. I'm sure the recession has played a part in slower growth, absolutely. And I had no idea that was profits, I wonder if the units are higher or lower. Interesting.
Better discounts: It's not unusual to see older releases selling for under $10 these days, major new releases for under $20.
Better selection: PIxar! Criterion Collection!
> > > Simultaneous B-D and DVD release < < < <
More extras (although to date, the only B-D that I've seen which really took advantage of BD-Live was Kung Fu Panda)
HDMI mostly works these days. A single cable to replace many, and it can be had cheaply too.
Much-cheaper B-D players, lower price for PS/3
Fewer "problem" titles that won't play or force me to upgrade the firmware. In fact, Sony's recent updates to the PS/3 seem to be more concerned with support for Sony's store and photo services than Blu-Ray patches.
Now playable on popularly-priced PC notebooks (unfortunately not Mac)
What's not to like these days? I still like digital delivery via Apple TV, but physical media like Blu-Ray has fewer restrictions.
That spec doesn't seem all that high TBH.
I'd think many of:
LCD's, DVD, plasma TV's, probably new video games, IPOD's and their ilk, etc all grew around the same in their infancy years, no?
I may be wrong, but it appears to be a fairly mild number.
The highest number I have seen on DVD was 136%, and DVD is often said to be the fastest growing CE product.
As I said, it just doesn't seem all that high to me. I know DVD was initially slow to start up, as I was a fairly early buyer ($900+ for the player, only one place in town rented them...).
I've gone the way of BD as we "needed" another player for our last TV in the house, so I did the BD thing. It's paired however with an old X1 PJ, so I'm not HD yet. One day I'll make the jump, maybe when my bulb dies, maybe sooner (it only has about 1200 hours on it IIRC).
Yup, everything I have seen shows the adoption (speed of market penetration) of DVD *players* was about the fastest of any consumer good. In the U.S. that is, and since they started keeping statistics (IIRC early B&W TV days).
What always amazes me is how slow CD was adopted. Others here won't be surprised...
As far as BD goes, that has been very (s)low in general, so a massive period-over-period growth rate for the last while isn't surprising to me. The price of BDPs is what did it IMO.
Consumer products normally follow the S curve, with a very slow start.
Once they take off like this 224%, success is almost sure.
Yes. I don't know why so many people seem to still insist it's a failure. Because it hasn't fully replaced DVD in 3 years? Color TV was nowhere in 3 years, took around 10 to even start significantly penetrating really. Big failure. People expect everything these days to happen so fast.
As many experienced pundits predicted, sub-$200 players would do it for BD. As it did for DVD. Also, it doesn't hurt that it's hard to buy a DVDP for $200 if that's what you have to spend, you pretty much have to get a BDP if you want a player of reasonable quality in that price range.
The people who say it's a failure supported HD DVD -- the lesser, inferior format -- and/or think downloads are the Holy Grail.
I've grown well over 224% over the years (vertically not horizontally).
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