UHD BD Beating Old BD

[Ihavecandygetnthevan]

Originally Posted by HDTV1080P

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"Though still a small part of the market, 4K/Ultra HD Blu-ray players are outpacing unit sales of original Blu-ray players in the same time frame, with 300,000 units sold in 2016 according to the Blu-ray Disc Association."

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I smell BS

Originally Posted by chip75

I'd imagine the new Xbox One plays a large part in that. I wonder if they've even knocked out 300,000 standalone players in that time!

2.8 Million Blu-ray player's where sold-thorough black Friday 2007. This figure includes PlayStation 3, but if you extrapolate the numbers that would put standalone numbers between 600,000 to 700,000 units.

[supersix4]

Originally Posted by Ihavecandygetnthevan

I smell BS



2.8 Million Blu-ray player's where sold-thorough black Friday 2007. This figure includes PlayStation 3, but if you extrapolate the numbers that would put standalone numbers between 600,000 to 700,000 units.

relative to how many choices to buy, I feel like their are so few "players" out right now.

[JohnAV]

Originally Posted by supersix4

relative to how many choices to buy, I feel like their are so few "players" out right now.

A lot of that has to do with UHD players actually are cutting edge technology. There doesn't have to be as many models out there as were in the recent years of cheap BD players. In fact Sony is a great example of how they treated the BD player as a commodity, with ES level players eventually being removed and replaced with multiple cheap BD players. They have now swung back to you can't sell players too cheap and support R&D with the x800 and x1000.