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Originally Posted by phloyd

I though that the launch + 11 had been corrected.

IE, Air Force One was released 11 months out but took 9 months more to ship the 100k units. Or something in that order.

It took like two weeks for CR to ship 100k iirc.

Yeah, I keep reading that. I don't know where that came from. But, it's wrong!

I think people misunderstood Sony's original announcement that said it took Air Force One 11 months to achieve the same thing. They interpretted that to mean 11 months after it was released, rather than 11 months after DVD was released.

Feb 1998 from Video Business:

Record shipment for Air Force DVD

In the latest sign of DVD's continuing progress toward becoming a mass-market format, Columbia TriStar Home Video will ship more than 100,000 copies of the Air Force One DVD to retailers. Columbia executive VP Paul Culberg called the supplier's planned 112,000-unit shipment a "benchmark" for the fledgling DVD software business and attributed the shipment size to the format's rapid growth. "I think it's a bull market," he said, noting that hardware makers have shipped 350,000 players.

The Digital Bits archive:

Studio News - Columbia / TriStar

PREVIOUS NEWS (3/4/98)

Well, word is that Air Force One has sold more than 200,000 copies on DVD, ranking it with Goldeneye and Twister as one of DVD's best sellers.