Ben, THANK YOU for the BD versus DVD chart. I am surprised at the 6%, but not nearly as surprised as the "BD is DOA" crowd will be, I'm sure. It makes sense to me to compare the top sellers in both formats, since it's been established that the vast majority of sales come in the first weeks a title is available, and DVD's back catalog completely dwarfs BD at this time, so overall disc sales comparisons wouldn't make a lot of sense right now.
Ben, also have you seen the reports around the web (saw it at high-def digest) that Blu-ray racked up 3 million disc sales in the last eleven weeks, versus 6 million sold since inception (part of 2006 and all of 2007). That kind of acceleration tells me there was a lot of pent-up demand and that with the format war firmly behind us people are ready to get their HD on. Awesome news all-in-all for HD on disc.
Oh, I meant to add too that I expect the back catalog titles in the top ten are because more and more people are buying Blu-ray players now. It stands to reason that they'd want to stock up on available titles. Unless you meant "where are all the sales" in the sense of "sale prices", in which case I don't have an answer, except to say that Amazon is not bad with 30% off across the board. Definitely beats most all B&Ms.
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Mr. E @ Mar 28th 2008 8:29PM
Ben, THANK YOU for the BD versus DVD chart. I am surprised at the 6%, but not nearly as surprised as the "BD is DOA" crowd will be, I'm sure. It makes sense to me to compare the top sellers in both formats, since it's been established that the vast majority of sales come in the first weeks a title is available, and DVD's back catalog completely dwarfs BD at this time, so overall disc sales comparisons wouldn't make a lot of sense right now.
Ben, also have you seen the reports around the web (saw it at high-def digest) that Blu-ray racked up 3 million disc sales in the last eleven weeks, versus 6 million sold since inception (part of 2006 and all of 2007). That kind of acceleration tells me there was a lot of pent-up demand and that with the format war firmly behind us people are ready to get their HD on. Awesome news all-in-all for HD on disc.
Mr. E @ Mar 28th 2008 8:33PM
Oh, I meant to add too that I expect the back catalog titles in the top ten are because more and more people are buying Blu-ray players now. It stands to reason that they'd want to stock up on available titles. Unless you meant "where are all the sales" in the sense of "sale prices", in which case I don't have an answer, except to say that Amazon is not bad with 30% off across the board. Definitely beats most all B&Ms.