9 million Blu-ray movies sold in the US so far

Well a few dvd releases can do that in a few weeks! WOW Blu-ray has along way to go.

yes it does

and as far as I am concerned, aside from a very few, select titles, I will only be rentin blu-ray titles for the time being, until they can come down in price )

How were DVD sales against VHS in the United States, when DVD's were at their 2nd year?? Anybody know???

I'm going to guess that Blu-ray combined with HD DVD movies in their second year is only about 20% to 30% of DVD movie sales in their second year. My reasoning? Because right now, high-def media can only target the demographic with HDTVs, which only represent between 20-30% of eligible households.

If high-def media has done better than this, then that in comparison is darn good.

I believe there are 330 million people in the USA. Which means less then 1/10th of a % bought a Blu-Ray disc that week and that if the 9 million sold where sold to individuals (no one person owning more then one) less then 3% of Americans own one. Overall not that good.

In responce to the DVD vs VHS, If I remember right by the end of the 2nd retail year (1999) DVD Video had sold over 25m units, and was averaging about 1m unit sales per week, in comparison to VHS having nearly 10 times that amount. It wasn't until about 2003 when VHS was finally ousted by DVD.

[Post edited by 3dpenguin on Mar 31, 2008]

Those sales numbers suck, ya I know HD DVD wasn't any better, but when you consider the fact that to break $1m on these movies the Distributiors would have to be getting $10-15 a unit with these numbers they are getting in sales, and they are only getting between $2 and $5 a unit, I don't see either HD format giving incentive enough to make the distributiors want to stick with the format for very long, it costs more than that to develop the movie for the format.