Blu-ray sales represented 17% of the home video market

This is pretty massive news really as at one stage it didnt even have 5% of the market, blu-ray is the real deal and it's hear to stay and eventually take the place of dvd, the next xbox will have a blu-ray player and by that time blu-ray will have finally overtaken the old dvds in marketshare

http://www.blu-ray.com/news/?id=2357

I really enjoy Bluray movies...I hope it's here to stay

I bought dark knight on blu ray last week, looks phenomenal

btw blu ray is selling faster in its first years than dvd

Who cares. I cant even tell the difference after watching it for awhile. Its no big dealkrp008

yeah, and unfortunately for Blu-Ray, you seem to be in the majority. While I find it hard to understand (given my admitted bias for all things home theater)it seems that only videophiles/audiophiles can tell the difference. More work ahead for the BR folks, I'm afraid.

Wow. It's not even one fifth of the market. That doesn't sound too impressive to me...

And what does that have to do with systemwars?

For the revolutionary new piece of media storage... that isn't impressive. Considering DVD would be controlling the other 83%.foxhound_fox

the DVD was launched around 1996 and y really got popular around 2000-2001...Let me search the link,,, Blu Ray is doing fineGiancar

[QUOTE="krp008"]Who cares. I cant even tell the difference after watching it for awhile. Its no big dealWardCleaver02

yeah, and unfortunately for Blu-Ray, you seem to be in the majority. While I find it hard to understand (given my admitted bias for all things home theater)it seems that only videophiles/audiophiles can tell the difference. More work ahead for the BR folks, I'm afraid.

[QUOTE="Giancar"]the DVD was launched around 1996 and y really got popular around 2000-2001...Let me search the link,,, Blu Ray is doing finefoxhound_fox

For those people that are comparing BD sales of now to the DVD of the past are very mistaken. Of course BD is going to have better sales than DVD did back in the day. It was a complete formate switch from VHS to DVD of course people were hesitant, and the fact that LaserDisc was a total failure people really weren't buying the disc hype.

It's much eaiser to go out and get BD player which also plays DVD especially now that the price is cheaper, but those VHS DVD combo things were expensive back in the day. Even if BD fails you still have a player that will read DVD and probably upconverts it as well. The only thing you losing money on is the difference in price between a decent upconvert DVD player and BD player and the cost of the movies you bought. So it's a little easier for people to make that switch, BUT they are not and if the BD sales do not pick up movie Co are not going to see the profit in releasing a film on BD if it's not selling like it's DVD counter part.

[QUOTE="Giancar"]the DVD was launched around 1996 and y really got popular around 2000-2001...Let me search the link,,, Blu Ray is doing finefoxhound_fox

i don't know about that especially in the uk, hd is really starting to take off, pretty much everything is going hd, sky hd (tv service) has dropped the hd box to £50 to get people on board. Blurays have dropped to 14 so that put's them pretty much in line with new dvd releases. I'm not sure a new media format would be benificial for a while, i think blurays can go up to like 150gb or more, so we won't be looking at 1tb disk for a while. That'd be like a 2 day film with 3000x2400 resolution.

A format that will take an age to become mainstream if at all, will be the new 3d sets. Not ones were you wear glasses but the philips one, that's amazing. Convincing tv and movie studios to adopt it will be quite a task.

For the revolutionary new piece of media storage... that isn't impressive. Considering DVD would be controlling the other 83%.foxhound_fox

[QUOTE="foxhound_fox"]For the revolutionary new piece of media storage... that isn't impressive. Considering DVD would be controlling the other 83%.Giancar

I'm not sure if that's a fair comparison though:

The DVD-Video format was introduced first, in 1996, in Japan, to the United States in March 1997 (Test Marketed)[5], and mid-late 1998 in Europe and Australia.

source: Wikipedia

By the time the market is "HD ready" there will be a new and much better piece of media storage waiting to take the market by storm.foxhound_fox

Like what?

[QUOTE="Giancar"]the DVD was launched around 1996 and y really got popular around 2000-2001...Let me search the link,,, Blu Ray is doing finefoxhound_fox

What does this have to do with game consoles? rybe1025

[QUOTE="Giancar"]the DVD was launched around 1996 and y really got popular around 2000-2001...Let me search the link,,, Blu Ray is doing finefoxhound_fox

No one in their right mind expected BD to replace DVD as soon as it came out. Notice how long for DVD to full phase out VHS? BD will replace DVD once it becomes cheaper. They've done enough marketing for it but in this economy right now no one is forking over the $$$ for HD when SD does a good enough job at the right price.

Sorry to be the killjoy of the group but posting information from a pro-BD site does not make the information valid.

The site you posted is not the official Blu-ray Association website and on the official site it does not mention anything about increased market penetration.

http://www.blu-raydisc.com/bluray_site.htm

What you posted is about as reliable as vgchartz, pure fanboy (Blu-ray fanboyism) dribble.

Game On...

Who cares. I cant even tell the difference after watching it for awhile. Its no big dealkrp008

yeah, and unfortunately for Blu-Ray, you seem to be in the majority. While I find it hard to understand (given my admitted bias for all things home theater)it seems that only videophiles/audiophiles can tell the difference. More work ahead for the BR folks, I'm afraid.

For the revolutionary new piece of media storage... that isn't impressive. Considering DVD would be controlling the other 83%.foxhound_fox

[QUOTE="rybe1025"]What does this have to do with game consoles? Giancar

I bought dark knight on blu ray last week, looks phenomenal

btw blu ray is selling faster in its first years than dvd

GTR_FX

Who cares. I cant even tell the difference after watching it for awhile. Its no big dealkrp008

are you watching with you eyes closed?

[QUOTE="krp008"]Who cares. I cant even tell the difference after watching it for awhile. Its no big dealogvampire

are you watching with you eyes closed?

I bought dark knight on blu ray last week, looks phenomenal

btw blu ray is selling faster in its first years than dvd

This is not format wars. Keep the discussion about games and systems, please.