Blu-ray continues to dominate HD DVD sales
- Posted August 31st, 2007 at 16:06 EDT by
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Home Media Research has evaluated recent Blu-ray sales, indicating that they continue to dominate HD DVD sales. Half of the top 10 selling movies are exclusive to Blu-ray, and all 10 are available on Blu-ray.
Warner Brother's '300' comes out on top with the most sales, followed by 'The Departed' and Casino Royale (a title which was given away with the European PS3 launch).
All of the major companies who support Blu-ray have at least 1 of their titles in the top 20 films. Universal, an HD DVD supporter did not sell enough copies to land on the list. Paramount's Babel' made it to the list, but only because it was on Blu-ray. Apparently, had they taken their decision beforehand to go HD DVD only, they would not show up on the top 20 list either.
Source: Blu-ray.com
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TofuOnoPhD |
bodoe- 4:55pm BST - August 31st, 2007
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Anyone who has worked in the video rental industry will know that Universal are a bunch of morons. Maybe they should take a hint and move to blu-ray, I mean they like money dont they?
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D3v1lwqer23 |
bodoe- 5:03pm BST - August 31st, 2007
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This war will be an interesting one to say the least
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thegame97338 |
G_PIG79- 5:16pm BST - August 31st, 2007
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Just bought Wild Hogs on Blu-Ray today, funny movie...
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kidkotic2001 |
hotshot2001- 5:28pm BST - August 31st, 2007
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I hope that Paramount sees the trend and goes back to blu-ray so we can get transformers too. Its only a matter of time
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galaxyman14 |
Apollo15- 6:25pm BST - August 31st, 2007
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No offense to the above poster but I would much rather have Transformers on Blu-ray than Spider-man 3 on Blu-ray. IMO Spider-man 3 was a piece of s***. I liked the other two but Spidey 3 sucked balls. The action scenes weren't even that great.
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The Cleaner
- 10:35pm BST - August 31st, 2007
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EZI DVD the largest retail chain for movies in Australia & NZ say that sales of Bluray and HD-DVD are almost non-existant. All this noise is about nothing. No one is buying Bluray movies in any reasonable quantity. No one is building 100+ Bluray or HD-DVD collections... they are buying cheap DVD's and those who are not buying DVD's are downloading or burning DVD's that they hire from their local video shop. Bluray is just hot air like UMD and a fart.
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Perishing_Mind
- 8:44am BST - September 1st, 2007
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HD-DVD??? This is Blu-Ray - straight to yor face Universal-Mofos
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Blue Pharoh
- 9:21am BST - September 1st, 2007
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I'm sold on Blu-ray, own 20+ movies already. 300 is truly amazing to watch on a big HDTV, unbelievable visuals. Sorry upconverted dvd doesn't come close, I'm through buying dvd's.
@ The Cleaner, your full of $hit. Do you ever have anything intelligent to say or do you just like being an idiot?
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k_nice_66_11_77 |
k_nice_617- 1:48pm BST - September 1st, 2007
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@ The Cleaner, Why? Why post this on a postive blue ray article? Just why? Do you hate the fact that BD is getting a lot of succes? Or the fact that you hate any Sony positive things? Why are you hating? BD can't acknowledge your hate, it's a non-living thing. DVDs aren't the future, and with companies making the products on hardware, whats the logic in distributing it over the net when the mass majority won't be watching stuffing via download, nor having diffrent mechanisims to view the content. So, get the fúçk off psu.com!!!!
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faizal5k |
fizzel89- 5:26pm BST - September 1st, 2007
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LMAO @ The Cleaner...yea sure everyone knows right now DVD is owning both Blu-ray and HD-DVD in sales........exactly like when VHS was owning DVD in sales when DVD just first came out...dumbass....think b4 you type lmao....don't worry guys...he's just another 360 fanboy just mad because of the Blu-ray success
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The Cleaner
- 7:06am BST - September 2nd, 2007
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Im simply stating that the largest chain of stores selling "movies" on all platforms say that "High Def" ... and that includes both Bluray and HD DVD.... isnt selling squat. My point dikwad is that all this so called "success" is hot air, you know... hype, marketing fluff.... There is no point getting angry at me for simply stating the truth. There is also no point getting angry at Paramount, Dreamworks or Universal Pictures if they chose not to make Bluray movies anymore. They run a business and are not going to spend money making product that doesnt sell enough quantity to cover costs. The same thing happened with UMD - not because it's a bad product, but simply because UMD Movies don't sell. Dont get upset about it. It doesnt mean that PSP isnt a good games machine....... I would love Sony to focus more attention on selling PS3's and less effort trying to flog Bluray players otherwise game publishers wont invest in PS3 and that impacts on us more than the choice of a few movie studio's.
Faizal5k think b4 you type lmao.... I said Bluray & HD DVD ...dumbass.... Microsoft supports HD DVD ... If I was a so called “360 fanboy" I'd not be saying anything against HD DVD......No, I'm a gamer and I have a PS3 for games. I'm sick of hearing all the BS about movies. I'm also not interested in games being pumped full of FMV if its just to push this Bluray story. I think we are loosing perspective & focus. PS3 should be about excellent games. I didn't buy a PS3 for 2nd class ports and I didn't buy a PS3 to to play frikken Singstar and other pussy games. If you want to measure diks Ive got over 211 x PSX, 338 x PS2, and 17 x PS3 titles – all verified by Collectorz.com who I contribute the photographs and disk release details for PAL versions. I also purchase my PS3 from Myers on release night in Sydney at Centerpoint tower. I was the 50th owner. So big mouth send me a picture of your “massive” Bluray collection and I'll post a picture of my games on URL: videogamecollectors.com/gallery/albums.php?set_albumListPage=1
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k_nice_66_11_77 |
k_nice_617- 11:05am BST - September 2nd, 2007
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@ The cleaner, if that's the case then why are you complaining. Blue ray is already justifying itself in PS3 from 3rd and 1st paries telling us so and I'm talking bout games bro. Like someone else stated, VHS was outselling DVD when DVD was introduced and DVD was slowly gaining mass adoption just like blueray, the only way people will really start jumping on the bandwagon is if the two camps can come to an agreement about which format to push, Why do you keep stating umd? you act like nintendos cartridge thinga majigy is makin UMD obsolete, and this isn't even relevant to Blue Ray. Don't you know Blue Ray is aimed @ a much bigger target audience than UMD? And you call people names and crap, I live in Boston Mass, USA, you live all the way in Austrilia, all I'll tell you to do is get the fùçk off psu.com because your pathetic, so vom-i-nose, ca-pren-day?
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incredibilistic
- 1:15pm BST - September 2nd, 2007
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According an article in Home Media Magazine (found here: http://www.nxtbook.com/nxtbooks/questex/hom090207/index.php ) Blu-Ray did outshine HD-DVD in terms of top 10 hi-def movies with HD-DVD only appearing twice thanks to "300" and the "Planet Earth" series from National Geographic (numbers 2 and 10 respectively).
Another article points out, however, that HD-DVD now has the advantage over Blu-Ray in terms of announced releases (257 vs. 279).
Whether this will translate into more sales remains to be seen and with both Target and BJ's Wholesale club selling only Blu-Ray movies and players (actually Target will continue to sell HD-DVD but not the players) it will be interesting to see if shoppers will go out of their way to get the less expensive HD-DVD players (yet continue to pay $5 more over Blu-Ray discs).
A big factor to consider here is what the average consumer will decide. Is Spider-Man 3 more important than Transformers? What about other titles. Then you have the PS3 factor. For every PS3 sold that's another Blu-Ray customer versus 360 buyers having to make the decision to actually get the player.
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Soviet-Messiah |
Soviet-Messiah- 7:56pm BST - October 5th, 2007
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Blu-Ray is kicking so much a$z. Good, I hate Microlimp. I love how sony has stuck to their guns and it is now paying off.
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