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Blu-ray reaches new sales milestone in Europe

Posted on August 30th, 2007 at 15:23 EDT

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.

Source: Blu-ray.com

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posted 3:32pm EDT - August 30th, 2007
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sweet

posted 3:32pm EDT - August 30th, 2007
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Blu-Ray 4 Life, way to go, lets finish off HD-DVDead...

posted 3:53pm EDT - August 30th, 2007
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Makes you wonder why some studios are still HD-DVD exclusive and some are still jumping on the HD-DVD exclusive wagon.  All studios need to stop creating market confusion and just support Blu-Ray already.

posted 4:19pm EDT - August 30th, 2007
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I agree with 6toes. HD-DVD keeps limping along despite impending failure. Them sticking around is just confusing the consumers who want to come into the HD field

posted 4:53pm EDT - August 30th, 2007
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when hd-dvd say goodbye i think xbox360 well say it 2

posted 5:00pm EDT - August 30th, 2007
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lets all say it loud and proud, "Paramount, you made the stupidest decision in HISTORY!!!!!!!" BD ftw......
posted 5:12pm EDT - August 30th, 2007
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great news

posted 5:29pm EDT - August 30th, 2007
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Blu-ray for sure. definitely.

posted 5:55pm EDT - August 30th, 2007
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To: 6toes,

Do you really have (6) six toes?  :o)

posted 6:17pm EDT - August 30th, 2007
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Ofcourse blu-ray has my vote (look what site I'm on)....but one must truely wonder whats up with Paramount. Supporting HD-DVD now is like buying a ticket and jumping on the titanic just after it has hit the iceberg. 2:1 is good...but its not a blow-out or landslinde by any means. Seems this  war will be dragging on for a good deal of time.

posted 6:47pm EDT - August 30th, 2007
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psn id: gingo.... excellent and this all shows what a great choice it was by sony to put a blu ray player into the console

posted 6:49pm EDT - August 30th, 2007
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paramount was paid 150 million dollars by hddvd to go to ther side thats funny in a way but we still get some movies like indeana jones 4 and more spelberg work  the director of transformers was mad when he heard this news but he was paid to be silent

posted 7:48pm EDT - August 30th, 2007
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You know honestly I'd still rather by a DVD rather than an HDDVD. I mean look at the recent release of Heroes, the DVD set is like 40 bucks, HDDVD? 100 bucks. Eff that noise. I have TWO Upconverting DVD players now  and I'll put them to good use rather than support that format even if I DID have a useless HDDVD player.

posted 3:53am EDT - August 31st, 2007
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we all knew blu ray will win

posted 4:05am EDT - August 31st, 2007
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And to think all this wouldn't even have happened if Sony didn't include Blu ray as standard in all ps3s.

posted 5:03am EDT - August 31st, 2007
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I just hate that season 1 of Heroes is a HD-DVD exclusive.. :(  why can't they see that Blu-ray is the future....

posted 5:44am EDT - August 31st, 2007
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True that.

posted 9:26am EDT - August 31st, 2007
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Woopie Doo! Fabulous Sony - now go deliver the frikken 300 games that Kaz promised by March.

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