Blu ray sales have risen 300%

Silver Mirror | July 28, 2008 | News | Playstation 3 Company Gaming Tech/Hardware

Blu ray is rising faster than ever according to statistics, while sales still pale in comparison to the dominant DVD format sales are currently triple what they were last year and it is predicted Blu ray will outpace DVD well before 2012 which was the current prediction held by most analysts

In a beneficial turn of events for the home entertainment industry, Blu-ray sales continue to rise drastically despite the staggering U.S. economy.

As DVD sales decline, Blu-ray has been filling in the gap, generating more than $200 million in the first half of 2008. This is in stark contrast to the same point last year, where Blu-ray earnings were less than 33% of current figures.

“We are trending 8% Blu-ray sales [per title], and at the end of the year, we will be between 10% and 12%," stated Mike Dunn of 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment.

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Xtrordinary | July 28, 2008

Well, what do ya know? ;D

But to be honest, how many Blu-Ray discs was sold last year? 12?
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Slumpy monkey | July 28, 2008

Im sure they will out pace DVD sales but it will be a LONG time before it has total domination.
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tekmosis | July 28, 2008

As soon as I read the article title I thought to myself "this is probably from some stupid Amazon statistic". Then I read the article and it mentions absolutely nothing about the 300%, where they got the information from, etc. Hey, I can make stuff up too you know! Source or it didn't happen.
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  VeGiTAX2 | July 29, 2008
  
  It's based on the Comic Con preview day results from Paramount as the poured boxes of Blu Ray titles onto the crowd to get them to stop asking for Star Trek posters.
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JRYDER101 | July 29, 2008

this was always to be expected with hd losing the big format battle and also blueray is shit hot
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Seproth | July 29, 2008

Well HD-DVD died fairly recently. So I'd say it's pretty natural for some catch up now....anyway. I helped!
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SvR2008 | July 29, 2008

That is good news. In a few more years Blu-ray will be like DVD is now and DVD will be like videos are now.
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Final Blade | July 30, 2008

_{While great, its still nothing special.}