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[Neo65]

Originally Posted by blu-rayfan101

Wow, blu-ray takes the lead and just keeps on going!

And if that chart was extended to dec 07, one thing to note is that Q4 of 07 sold 3.1M blu-ray disks. With likely 1/2 of that in December (xmas!). This would give us a runrate of at least 400k/wk in the highest week.

That chart's highest volume was 70k/wk.

[Azumi]

Hardware update from Australia:

According to GfK, over 155,000 PS3 were sold in 2007. Of these, 48,000 units were purchased between week 47 to week 52.

In Australia, Blu-ray has been outselling HD DVD to a rate far greater than the US or Europe.

Link

[tru2blu707]

Originally Posted by Azumi

Hardware update from Australia:

According to GfK, over 155,000 PS3 were sold in 2007. Of these, 48,000 units were purchased between week 47 to week 52.

In Australia, Blu-ray has been outselling HD DVD to a rate far greater than the US or Europe.

Link

NICE! 08 should look even better than last year!

[Neo65]

Originally Posted by Azumi

Hardware update from Australia:

According to GfK, over 155,000 PS3 were sold in 2007. Of these, 48,000 units were purchased between week 47 to week 52.

In Australia, Blu-ray has been outselling HD DVD to a rate far greater than the US or Europe.

Link

I'd restate that as :

In Australia, Blu-ray had been outselling HD DVD to a rate far greater than the US or Europe.

The ratios for 2008 so far for disk and player numbers in the US are a blowout.

[Grubert]

UK figures released by the British Video Association show that DVD was worth more than £2.3 billion in 2007 including £22 million from hi-def formats.

http://www.dvd-intelligence.com/main...1_uk_2-3bn.htm

[quexos]

Wait where are the figures of actual sales of SAL players by week ?
there was this thread where you had that info for week 1, 2 and 3 of January 2008
please continue that info, it's appreciated

[MarekM]

Originally Posted by quexos

Wait where are the figures of actual sales of SAL players by week ?
there was this thread where you had that info for week 1, 2 and 3 of January 2008
please continue that info, it's appreciated

seems, that Bill will not post new numbers, due NPD request to not post numbers...

Marek

[Azumi]

Blu-ray has just broken the barrier of 2 million discs sold in Europe.

According to a press release from the European BDA, the latest GfK data show that 2.37 million discs have been sold to date.

BD currently enjoys a 79:21 ratio YTD in Europe.

http://www.pocket-lint.co.uk/news/ne...ies-sold.phtml

[Grubert]

Originally Posted by Azumi

Blu-ray has just broken the barrier of 2 million discs sold in Europe.

According to a press release from the European BDA, the latest GfK data show that 2.37 million discs have been sold to date.

BD currently enjoys a 79:21 ratio YTD in Europe.

http://www.pocket-lint.co.uk/news/ne...ies-sold.phtml

Thanks, Azumi.

That would mean YTD sales of 2.37 million vs 810,000.

[MarekM]

Originally Posted by Grubert

Thanks, Azumi.

That would mean YTD sales of 2.37 million vs 810,000.

those 2.37 is probably SI and not YTD right ? or am I reading it wrongly from that link ?

Marek

[davidxiphoid]

Originally Posted by Grubert

Thanks, Azumi.

That would mean YTD sales of 2.37 million vs 810,000.

I think this news deserves it's own thread IMO =] awesome news!!

[Azumi]

Originally Posted by MarekM

those 2.37 is probably SI and not YTD right ? or am I reading it wrongly from that link ?

Marek

Yes, I'm pretty sure that 2.37M is SI and that 79:21 is YTD's current ratio. Two separate events.

Blu-ray.com has now the story in the front page, but for the purpose of this thread I'll add a few more numbers:

"DVD-Video was first introduced into Western Europe in 1997, and the following year some 230,000 DVD players were installed and 2 million discs were sold through," the group said. "In comparison, Blu-ray Disc made its first tentative launch in Western Europe in 2006, and the following year some 3.2 million PlayStation 3 (PS3) consoles and 34,000 standalone players were installed, while 2.3 million Blu-ray discs sold through."

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/...5a14eacddd44ae

Sony has confirmed to GamesIndustry.biz that the PlayStation 3 has sold over one million units in the UK. The console was released in the UK on March 23 last year, meaning it has reached the milestone quicker than the PlayStation 2, which took 50 weeks to sell one million units.
Nintendo's Wii reached the one million mark in the UK within 38 weeks on sale, making it the fastest-selling home console in the region.
Microsoft's Xbox 360 sold one million units within 60 weeks.

http://www.gamesindustry.biz/content_page.php?aid=33064

[Grubert]

http://www.videobusiness.com/article/CA6532685.html

BD software sales alone have exceeded 1.5 million units so far in 2008, a mark that hadn’t been hit until July last year, according to studio sources. Also, BD sales through mid-February are five times greater than at the same time last year.

[MarekM]

Originally Posted by Grubert

http://www.videobusiness.com/article/CA6532685.html

it's pitty that there is no date to wich those >1.5mil units were sold
so we can have some hard data to check

Marek

[Fozziwig]

Finally, the truth about hardware sales:

Q: How many HD DVD players and recorders, exactly, did you sell?
A: 600,000 players in the US -- 300,000 of which were Xbox 360 HD DVD drives. 100,000 units were sold in Europe. And about 10,000 players and 20,000 recorders in Japan. So about 730,000 units worldwide.

http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/19/l...ence-in-tokyo/

That 100,000 in Europe will include the X-Box add-on.

Given that the Venturer and Onkyo players can't have sold more than a few thousand units, these figures are pretty dire and show that the '1 million' comment was little more than a LIE (what a surprise).

[Neo65]

Originally Posted by MarekM

it's pitty that there is no date to wich those >1.5mil units were sold
so we can have some hard data to check

Marek

It's not surprising. Remember that Dec2007 was 1.7M BD movies sold. First 6weeks of 2008 selling 1.5M is a normal seasonal drop for a growing format.

[MarekM]

Originally Posted by Neo65

It's not surprising. Remember that Dec2007 was 1.7M BD movies sold. First 6weeks of 2008 selling 1.5M is a normal seasonal drop for a growing format.

I was trying to find exact date, so we can calculate exact number, how many times is this year bigger than 2007

so yes, I am aware about seasonal numbers and drops after holidays...

Marek

[Neo65]

Originally Posted by MarekM

I was trying to find exact date, so we can calculate exact number, how many times is this year bigger than 2007

so yes, I am aware about seasonal numbers and drops after holidays...

Marek

IMO, the first 3 weeks, perhaps 4, we could just use the weekly & ytd numbers to calculate volumes as long as any one week's number is known. Now, 6-7 weeks in, the margin of error becomes too big with no decimals behind the integer ratio. By now, it's not practical to estimate the volumes without more data.

Perhaps in the coming weeks some major pr push would reveal some number, every quarter last year, we had BDA telling the world how their volume was growing, and the numbers while trailing DVDs's historical numbers do show a growing market, albeit at perhaps 2/3 DVD numbers.

Now without a format war, it's up to BD to show that they can triple the rate of new adopters, as well as move the disk numbers closer to DVDs post-launch numbers, perhaps offset by one year spent fighting the sham of a format war that should never have happened.

[Grubert]

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

Source: Hollywood in Hidef

Blu-ray Disc sales continue to pick up steam, with total U.S. sales since inception (about a year-and-a-half-ago) hitting 9 million units through March 16, according to HMR research.

In just 11 weeks this year, BD unit sales have hit 3 million units, seemingly putting the format on pace to easily hit at least 15 million units for 2008.

After averaging weekly sales ranging from 200,000 - 300,000 the past two months or so, sales spiked up to 319,000 units, driven by Miramax's release of "No Country For Old Men."

The Oscar-winner, despite having few special features of any kind, sold a whopping 68,000 units the week ending March 16. That's double the next closest title, Fox's "Hitman: Special Edition," which was also a relatively strong seller.

Prior weekly top-sellers this year were ranging from 10,000 - 30,000 units.
Look for even stronger numbers in the coming weeks with much bigger box-office titles slated for release.

As a reference, BD sales in the full first quarter of 2007 were about 830,000.

[Grubert]

Reuters/Hollywood Reporter, Blu-ray boom not enough to rescue DVD sales
http://uk.reuters.com/article/techno...33821520080424

Q1 sales: 3.8 million Blu-ray, 4.9 million total "next-gen movies."