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| Registered: March 10, 2009 | | Posts: 2,248 |
| | Posted: | | | | Blu-ray is now on it's way to taking it's first 50% share of weeks revenue. And that's by 2012  So this thread is in preparation to tell a certain few individuals. I told you so! |
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| Registered: March 14, 2007 | | Posts: 5,734 |
| | Posted: | | | | reserving a spot | | | | Don't confuse while the film is playing with when the film is played. [Ken Cole, DVD Profiler Architect] |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | Reputation:  |  Posts: 13,201 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting VirtualScot: Quote:
Blu-ray is now on it's way to taking it's first 50% share of weeks revenue. And that's by 2012 Some kind of link, to what you are talking about, would be nice. | | | No dictator, no invader can hold an imprisoned population by force of arms forever.
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Against this power, governments and tyrants and armies cannot stand.
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We will teach it to them again.
Though it take a thousand years, we will be free.
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| Registered: March 26, 2009 | | Posts: 1,387 |
| | Posted: | | | | If your referring to Blu-ray sales, they should be now that their prices are low the player and Movies. Wally world sells a lot of Blu-ray movies for as low as $13. |
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| Registered: March 14, 2007 | | Posts: 1,777 |
| | Posted: | | | | I'm a catalog title guy, personally. Mostly stuff pre '70. For me, Blu has been underwhelming, to say the least. They could get 100% of the sales, but as long as it's constrained to titles like Furious Five, it might as well not even exist. I do appreciate the occasional crumb Warner throws a couple times a year. Ben Hur and Citizen Kane this year. I should only be about 75 when the Garbo titles start rolling out.  | | | | Last edited: by mdnitoil |
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| Registered: March 10, 2009 | | Posts: 2,248 |
| | Posted: | | | | Back in 2008ish. Sam and a whole lot of the DvD spot lot ripped me for arse paper for boldly claiming Blu-ray sales by 2012 will start to overtake DvD sales.
Iam not so true Blu as i once used to be. Factors of money and maturing film taste. But still i hold on to the opinion that about Blu-ray sales.
Any way here's a recent report.
http://www.blu-ray.com/news/?id=7537 |
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| Registered: March 14, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 4,245 |
| | Posted: | | | | I wonder if some of the increased sales are because people are "future proofing" their collections and buying the DVD/Blu-Ray combo packs?
I know that even before I owned a BR player I bought the combo packs if they were available because I planned on buying a player in the future.
And with combo packs just a few more dollars, sometimes the same price as the dvd counterpart, it makes financial sense to buy the combos. |
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| Registered: May 19, 2007 | Reputation:  |  Posts: 6,730 |
| | Posted: | | | | Sorry,
but your source is talking about a share of 35%.
To reach your announced share of 50% there's still a loooong way to go.
Since, as your source states, the sales rise by the end of the year, Blu sales would have to rise about another 50% to catch up with DVD sales. | | | It all seems so stupid, it makes me want to give up!
But why should I give up, when it all seems so stupid?
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| Registered: March 10, 2009 | | Posts: 2,248 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting Silence_of_Lambs: Quote:
Sorry,
but your source is talking about a share of 35%.
To reach your announced share of 50% there's still a loooong way to go.
Since, as your source states, the sales rise by the end of the year, Blu sales would have to rise about another 50% to catch up with DVD sales. Blu-ray got a 35% market share couple of weeks back. There saying this week that record could be shattered. | | | | Last edited: by ShinyDiscGuy |
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| Registered: September 18, 2008 | Reputation:  |  Posts: 2,650 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting VirtualScot: Quote:
Back in 2008ish. Sam and a whole lot of the DvD spot lot ripped me for arse paper for boldly claiming Blu-ray sales by 2012 will start to overtake DvD sales. Actually you stated it would overtake by 2010. It didn't. I still stand by that Blu-ray will not become the out and out norm anytime soon. Also, they include the combo packs in BR sales figures rather than DVD sales figures. I bet of they included them in both, the story but would be a lot different. | | | | Last edited: by samuelrichardscott |
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| Registered: May 19, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 6,730 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting VirtualScot: Quote:
There saying this week that record could be shattered. Yes, and I could be President of the United States of Europe by the end of 2014. | | | It all seems so stupid, it makes me want to give up!
But why should I give up, when it all seems so stupid?
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| Registered: March 10, 2009 | | Posts: 2,248 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting Silence_of_Lambs: Quote:
Quoting VirtualScot:
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There saying this week that record could be shattered.
Yes, and I could be President of the United States of Europe by the end of 2014. Then you could make your own film. Air Force Bread Stick |
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| Registered: March 14, 2007 | | Posts: 1,777 |
| | Posted: | | | | I learned years ago to take most everything that appears on blueray.com with a healthy grain of salt. It's not that their information is flat out wrong, just that they tend to cherrypick their data without giving you the full scope. |
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| Registered: December 10, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 3,004 |
| | Posted: | | | | Blu-ray has commonly had a share of over 50% of new releases for some time now. It seems to be catching up for total market share. |
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| Registered: June 21, 2007 | Reputation:  | | Posts: 2,621 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting OldMan56: Quote:
If your referring to Blu-ray sales, they should be now that their prices are low the player and Movies. Wally world sells a lot of Blu-ray movies for as low as $13. If you look around Wally, some are $6 and yesterday I saw "The Others" for only $5 at Target. I grabbed American Psycho for $6 a few weeks ago and they didn't bother to ring it up, just deactivate the security, so it was free! Telling you, used stores are priced too high for Blu (at least $10 each here), the deals are in retail stores.  |
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| Registered: March 26, 2009 | | Posts: 1,387 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting bigdaddyhorse: Quote:
Quoting OldMan56:
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If your referring to Blu-ray sales, they should be now that their prices are low the player and Movies. Wally world sells a lot of Blu-ray movies for as low as $13.
If you look around Wally, some are $6 and yesterday I saw "The Others" for only $5 at Target. I grabbed American Psycho for $6 a few weeks ago and they didn't bother to ring it up, just deactivate the security, so it was free! Telling you, used stores are priced too high for Blu (at least $10 each here), the deals are in retail stores. I haven't seen them that low here and I definitely won't buy used Blu-ray from Movie Stop their used Blu-rays cost more than new at Wally World or Targets. With these lower prices I'm buying more Blu-ray Especially the combo packs. |
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