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Multi-format-mayhem @ Oct 5th 2008 2:34PM
Every so often there has to be an aberration.
That is what I'd put those skanky, aging and laughably over-painted harridans in 'Sex & the City' down to
(in any event with overall BD movie sales @ $10 million the numbers for 'S&tC' must have been tiny).
Iron Man will be better but once again with an overall spend at (let's say a record $20 million in the week) again the numbers will be very small.
The same will be true of the results from the week in which the latest Batman appears.
It'll be a little better than before and undoubtedly some folks will soil themselves over it but the underlying truth is still that sales are remaining stuck at a very very small level compared to DVD.
Here's some real numbers -
DVD sells almost 1.7 billion discs in the USA p.a.
http://www.dvdinformation.com/industryData/index.cfm
DVD sells over 7 billion discs worldwide.
http://www.contentdeliveryandstorage.org/stats/stat-replication_worldwide.html
Blu-ray is simply the new Laserdisc, given a boost (compared to Laserdisc) by being built into a PS3 game console, but it's still a very niche product & at a high margin.
Now as a Blu-ray owner myself I have no problem facing the fact that Blu-ray is a zillion miles away from replacing DVD and is in fact extremely unlikely ever to do so
(especially with a huge recession just around the corner).
I just wonder why so many others seem incapable of facing up to this and telling the truth about where BD really stands?
12%+ my bottom.
kenjix @ Oct 5th 2008 2:47PM
Do you think that DVD started out with those numbers ?
You ever hear the saying of history repeats itself?
Do changes happen overnight?
Did DVD had 100% market share when VHS came out?
benny boy @ Oct 5th 2008 3:16PM
Every post on blu-ray doesn't need to be filled with comments on how Blu-Ray will or will not overtake DVD. Every comment is just another person trying to masquerade their opinions as fact.
The ACTUAL TRUTH is that no-one actually knows what will happen and anyone that says that they do are idiots.
You can't say Blu-ray will become the next laserdisc or that it will become the next DVD as
NO ONE ACTUALLY KNOWS.
J.Goodwin @ Oct 5th 2008 3:22PM
VHS will never die, it has 99% of the market.
why not the LS2LS7? @ Oct 5th 2008 4:02PM
Careful. You'll get banned again.
12% is pretty good for only a year on the market. Give it some time before you declare it to remain niche forever.
It hasn't even had it's 2nd big Xmas yet, jeez.
Where was DVD in 1999? Maybe 12% as big as VHS.
Multi-format-mayhem @ Oct 5th 2008 8:52PM
@ why not the LS2LS7?
What would I get banned for?
Pointing out the Emperor's new clothes? Having a different view?
Oh my, the humanity!
The point is not whether or not Blu-ray can at some point in the future manage to post a genuine 12% of the market number.
It's not even whether DVD had 12% of the market 2yrs+ in either.
The point is that Blu-ray does not have a true 12% right now. It holds a highly suspect number in a highly selective and odd series of stats
and everyone knows it, no matter what they say (the Washington Post mentioned 4% the other day, which just goes to show they are not prepared to parrot 12% but will give them some sort of the benefit of the doubt - but they sure as hell are nowhere near 4% of that 1.7 billion number
and everyone knows that too.
No matter how desperately some people want to believe different.
It speaks volumes that the BDA have now shut-up shop on disclosing verifiable actual sales numbers.
why not the LS2LS7? @ Oct 9th 2008 9:46PM
You'll get banned for the same thing you got banned for last time, Truth Teller (or maybe Nfinity).
Overall market share figures don't matter as much as major-release early weeks figures. I mean, they matter, but Hollywood cares a lot more about how many copies sell at $25 than sell after the title has been out for 12 months and it's selling for $8, because those early copies bring in virtually all the profit the release ever will bring in.
Another thing is that the major studios don't care how many copies of Steve Odenkirk's Thumb Wars are sold on BluRay versus DVD either, even on the first day. And the sales of those $5 releases won't make or break the format either. So mentioning DVD sells 7B units a year isn't that useful a figure.
What Hollywood cares about is how much money they can make releasing a movie on BD, and those figures are rising and rapidly moving into the point where Hollywood cannot afford NOT TO release major movies on BD.