How much of the market is exclusively Blu?

[JimR5]

i was just wantn to know what percent blu has on the market?

[Canada]

I belive in the HD DVD downfall You Tube thing it said about 80% of studios were Blu Ray only. It may actually be a bit higher. Are you counting companies such as Disney/Touchstone as one entity or two.

[Merlins]

Depends on how you are counting. Number of studios, number of exclusive titles, market size on theater, market size on DVD, stock share etc. and under which time frame.

However. it is about 70-85% for Blu-ray in most numbers except number of titles. Universal did push out a lot of catalouge titles last summer but the picture quality shrunk at the same speed.

Here is a couple of examples:
Market share in theaters for the exclusive studios
2006:

				
1	Sony / Columbia 	18.60%		
2	Buena Vista 		16.20%	
3	20th Century Fox 	15.20%		
4	Warner Bros. 		11.60%	
5	Paramount 		10.30%	
6	Universal 		8.90%	
7	Lionsgate 		3.60%	
8	New Line 		2.70%	
9	Weinstein Company 	2.50%		
10	MGM/UA 			1.80%
11	Fox Searchlight 	1.80%		
12	Focus Features 		1.30%

2007:

						
	1	Paramount 		15,50%			
	2	Warner Bros, 		14,70%		
	3	Buena Vista 		14,00%		
	4	Sony / Columbia 	12,90%		
	5	Universal 		11,40%			
	6	20th Century Fox 	10,50%		
	7	New Line 		5,00%		
	8	Lionsgate 		3,80%	
	9	MGM/UA 			3,80%		
	10	Fox Searchlight 	1,40%			
	11	Miramax 		1,30%		
	12	Rogue Pictures 		0,80%	

2008:

				
	1	Warner Bros.		20,80%	
	2	20th Century Fox 	16,80%	
	3	Paramount 		11,10%	
	4	Buena Vista 		10,80%	
	5	Fox Searchlight 	9,30%	
	6	Sony / Columbia 	8,90%	
	7	Universal 		4,60%	
	8	Paramount Vantage 	3,40%	
	9	Focus Features 		3,20%	
	10	Lionsgate 		2,30%	
	11	Overture Films 		1,90%	
	12	MGM/UA 			1,80%	

And remember that this is only the studio support. Add extra retail support, software support and a lot more CE-support and you will understand that HD-DVD is pretty much only Toshiba and Universal+Paramount that does not release so many movies these days...

[glenn22]

I've seen several figures and charts online. Most put the figures at about 70 - 75%. There have been people claiming as high as 85%, but personally I think that's reaching and is bordering on FUD.

[BluOgre]

Originally Posted by JimR5

i was just wantn to know what percent blu has on the market?

Honestly it depends on what you mean? Number of titles or boxoffice revenue %? Blu-ray will roughly control 75-80% of the boxoffice movies/revenue when it comes to homevideo.

Boxoffice revenue for each stuido is going to change each year so nailing down an exact percent is impossible.

What you can take to the bank is Blu-ray just won the biggest stuido (Warner). They release the most movies and typically have the biggest percent of boxoffice (and most of the biggest titles) every year.

[JTStarkiller]

Is there a guess as to whether Paramount or Universal will make the jump to Blu first? Are there contractual obligations for either?

I figured Paramount would jump first since they were already in the Blu market, but I heard that their recent HD deal has them signed on for longer. Is this true?