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

9 million Blu-ray movies sold in the US so far.
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By Henning Molbaek
 FIRST ONLINE Mar 28, 2008
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"Blu-ray Disc sales continue to pick up steam, with total U.S. sales since inception (about a year-and-a-half-ago) hitting 9 million units through March 16, according to HMR research." writes Blu-ray website Hollywood in Hi-Def.

"No Country for Old Men" has helped drive sales with 68,000 units alone leading to 319,000 units in total for week ending March 16th. Normally the weekly figure for the format as been 200,000 - 300,000 units.

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Friday, March 28, 2008
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Well a few dvd releases can do that in a few weeks! WOW Blu-ray has along way to go.
Friday, March 28, 2008
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January 2008
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 )
Friday, March 28, 2008
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How were DVD sales against VHS in the United States, when DVD's were at their 2nd year?? Anybody know???
Friday, March 28, 2008
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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.
Saturday, March 29, 2008
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March 2008
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.
Monday, March 31, 2008
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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]
Monday, March 31, 2008
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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.

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