Blu Christmas....

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I found an interesting article...

That's what media analysts at Futuresource Consulting are predicting, at least in the US. The UK-based media consultancy released on Tuesday a bullish new sales forecast for the high-definition discs, saying they expected Blu-ray to top 10 per cent of all recordable media discs sold in the United States and a more meagre two per cent in Britain and France by year-end. Next year, Western Europe is expected to catch up with the US, helped by cheaper players and a larger installed base of Sony PlayStation 3 game consoles.
The good news for those holding out is that the price of Blu-ray players is expected to creep lower in time for Christmas with several brands introducing sub-£150 devices in the UK and sub-$200 in the US, Futuresource says. (A quick glimpse of Amazon.co.uk shows Pioneer and Sharp have already broken through the £150 floor.) Sales of Blu-ray players are already well ahead of DVD players at this point in its existence a decade ago, Mousetrap reported in June. They're well on their way to selling more than million players (including PS3) in Europe by year-end.

Disc sales too are on target. Futuresource predicts 45 million Blu-ray will be sold in the US this year. And by 2012, Blu-ray disc sales will catch or be close to catching DVD by 2012, the group says.

http://timesonline.typepad.com/techn...ray-chris.html