UK Disc sales to date comparison.

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Originally Posted by gandley

This is how sales stand pre PS3, will be interesting to compare at a later date.

Feb is still TBC

Preivious sales were

Blu Ray:
October 148 discs sold
November 492 discs sold
December 1194 discs sold
January 1,174 discs sold

HD DVD:
November 673 discs sold
December 7527 discs sold
January 5525 Discs sold

Totals: Blu Ray 3008 discs
HD DVD 13725 discs


This is with HD-DVD players availble in quantity and with healthy player imports from the USA + the 360 addon. I dont think one has to be a genious to see that the PS3 effect could either level the playing field or dominate the market even if only a low number of PS3 users buy a movie or two, the numbers for Blu ray will shoot up.

As a guess say only 250 000 consoles enter the UK at launch and only 25% buy a movie, well you do the math.

Just shows how piddly the current market is here in old blighty at the mo

Nice post! Where did this data come from?
How many HD-DVD players are we looking at in the UK.....less than 2000?
If the pre-order buzz is anything to go by, overnight the UK will have 250,000 Blu Ray players in place by the 23rd March.Isint that like 100 : 1 ratio in favour of Blu Ray!

I already own 2 BD with a further 10 on pre-order in March.
Looks like HD-DVD,s last stand wil be in NA