9 mil. Blu discs sold to date; 3 million already this year

[AlexCruz]

That is amazing. We haven't even finished 3 full months into the year and already there have been 3 million units sold! I wonder how well DVD was doing when it was around 2 years old?

[sardaukar1977]

I doubt DVD was doing that well in the beginning

[Bullseye]

This is a very good sign that one format will help BD greatly.

[Herr Schmidt]

It looks like it will be a good year for blu :}

[Blu Titan]

Great news Grubert. I Am Legend and Enchanted will be big sellers. With HD DVD gone, the format will only increase in popularity.

[MatrixS2000]

This is great news. Good to see sales picking up briskly.

[RustyK94]

like i said 3 to 4 years dvd will be dead and not a moment to soon. Well ok it was good for it's time.

[Mobe1969]

I'd love to see figures more recent taking into consideration I Am LEgend. I mean FFS it has been #1 or 2 for nearly two weeks now. That didn't happen for No Country and Hitman...

[Argento Fan]

Fantastic. With all of the great movies coming in 2008, and the exclusive promotion of Blu-ray by the retails channels, I can see 20 million BD movies sold in 2008.

[Memnoch71]

Originally Posted by AlexCruz

That is amazing. We haven't even finished 3 full months into the year and already there have been 3 million units sold! I wonder how well DVD was doing when it was around 2 years old?

I just read it yesterday in another Article, At the 2 year point DVD had sold 1 million units. As opposed to 9 million for Bul-Ray.

[Entertainment72]

Does anyone know the I AM LEGEND sales figures yet..any stats.. if NCFOM did that well I would think IAL surpassed it or going to shortly.

[Neo65]

Originally Posted by Entertainment72

Does anyone know the I AM LEGEND sales figures yet..any stats.. if NCFOM did that well I would think IAL surpassed it or going to shortly.

That's a curious question. Under normal assumptions, I would have thought each disk that sells more than 100k would have a lot of good press, but WB is still quiet.

[dialog_gvf]

Unfair I say!! Consumer sales shouldn't be allowed to be reported. How can claims of BD losing to downloads/flash catch on in the consumer psyche if the BDA are allowed to prove Blu-ray is succeeding?!



Just wait until Q4 when EVERYONE is pushing a Blu Xmas.

Gary

[Blu Haze]

Originally Posted by dialog_gvf

Unfair I say!! Consumer sales shouldn't be allowed to be reported. How can claims of BD losing to downloads/flash catch on in the consumer psyche if the BDA are allowed to prove Blu-ray is succeeding?!



Just wait until Q4 when EVERYONE is pushing a Blu Xmas.

Gary

All i want this Christmas is a Blu ray

[mightypen]

Originally Posted by dialog_gvf

Just wait until Q4 when EVERYONE is pushing a Blu Xmas.

Gary

Hopefully there will be a decent push in late april through may by retailers..Thank you, shrub.

[Alan Gordon]

Originally Posted by mightypen

Hopefully there will be a decent push in late april through may by retailers..Thank you, shrub.

I wouldn't be surprised to see some "Father's Day" deals... not to mention I wouldn't be surprised some (though to a less extent) sales around the time the "stimulus" checks get mailed out.

~Alan

[unreal1080p]

Originally Posted by Memnoch71

I just read it yesterday in another Article, At the 2 year point DVD had sold 1 million units. As opposed to 9 million for Blu-Ray.

Hold on to your horses there and don't believe EVERYTHING some schmoe puts on a blog or make sure you are looking at North American figures... not UK ones

VideoScan, who tracks home video sales, reports that more than 9.3 million open DVDs sold during 1998, a 600% increase over 1997.

For the 1999 calendar year, through the week ended Dec. 19, more than 19.75 million units of DVD software were sold. That's more than double the 9.3 million software units sold in all of 1998, according to VideoScan.

Total DVD sales for 1997 (1st year of DVD-launched April 1997) = 1.5 million
Total DVD sales for 1998 (2nd year of DVD) = 9.3 million
Total DVD sales for 1999 (3rd year of DVD) = 19.75 million

Total DVD sales for first two years (1997 + 1998) = 11 million

Blu-Ray total sales for it's first two years (2006 + 2007) = 6 million

For it's first 3 years, DVD sold 30.5 million units

To match it's pace, there would have to be 21.5 million Blu-Ray discs sold between now and Xmas (probably not going to happen).

Given that DVD ran un-opposed and had more of a "novelty" advantage then Blu-Ray... I think Blu-Ray is doing extremely well. Given the rapid adoption pace currently being experienced by Blu-Ray I think we might be able to match DVD's pace by end of Q1 2009 but will Blu-Ray be able to continue to match it further down the line is the BIG question (DVD boomed between 2000-2002... will Blu-Ray experience the same boom?...)

DVD-VIDEO SOFTWARE SHIPMENTS BY QUARTER -- NORTH AMERICA
(in millions)

QUARTER_____2002___2001__2000__1999___1998__1997

1st Quarter___120.1___69.2__29.0___11.1___3.3___N/A

2nd Quarter___152.2___81.7__33.2___13.9___4.1___N/A

3rd Quarter___153.3___75.9__42.7___29.0___5.9___2.3

4th Quarter____N/A___137.6__77.5___44.0__11.8___3.2

YEARLY TOTAL_425.6__364.4__182.4__98.0__25.1___5.5

TOTAL --> 1,101

[Kuraudo]

Since many people who own blu ray discs have more than one disc
this means a large group of the pie of ps3 owners do not even own a blu ray movie.

[jadedeath]

Originally Posted by Kuraudo

Since many people who own blu ray discs have more than one disc
this means a large group of the pie of ps3 owners do not even own a blu ray movie.

Unless you count the free movies that came with the system when they get the 5 free.

Or unless you count the fact that Blu-Ray's are used for the games that the PS3 runs.

And as an aside those are the US totals, considering that I'm not even sure that there have been 10 million PS3's sold in N/A thus far, I'd be forced to say that you're likely wrong, the averages work out to being slightly more disks have sold than players, and yes since some people have more than one disk you could be right about not every PS3 owner having a Blu-Ray movie, but that begs the question of "who cares?"

Logan

[Bobby Henderson]

In 1999, The Matrix helped jack up sales numbers of DVD discs by a great deal. That one movie accounts for a major part of that 10 million discs sold difference from 1998.

I remember very well that most DVDs were priced $20 or more (some even well over $30). Then The Matrix arrived in stores like Wal-Mart and Best Buy priced at only $14.99 or even less than that. Hell, I paid more money for the music soundtrack CD of The Matrix than I did for the DVD!

There is a chance we could see a similar, very aggressive push on the part of Hollywood studios for selling new movies on Blu-ray this fall. If certain major summer releases do very well at the box office they may also be priced aggressively low when they hit DVD and Blu-ray.

Warner Bros. has had a history of being aggressive in cutting prices for major releases, be it with The Matrix or pricing the LOTR movies via New Line really low as well (I think I paid $13.49 for Return of the King). If The Dark Knight posts real blockbuster numbers at commercial movie theaters then Warner Bros. might be inclined to sell the Blu-ray version of that movie at an unprecedented low price.