http://hd.engadget.com/2008/12/17/the-dark-knight-blu-ray-sells-1-7-million-in-a-week-shows-iron/ Engadget HD Comments for The Dark Knight Blu-ray sells 1.7 million in a week, shows Iron Man a magic trick http://hd.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://hd.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2010 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://hd.engadget.com/2008/12/17/the-dark-knight-blu-ray-sells-1-7-million-in-a-week-shows-iron/http://hd.engadget.com/2008/12/17/the-dark-knight-blu-ray-sells-1-7-million-in-a-week-shows-iron/Dec 17th 2008 7:16AMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2008/12/17/the-dark-knight-blu-ray-sells-1-7-million-in-a-week-shows-iron/http://hd.engadget.com/2008/12/17/the-dark-knight-blu-ray-sells-1-7-million-in-a-week-shows-iron/
Marketshare Blu-ray to DVD seems to be around 12%, respectable for a BD title but not the kind of killer share we've seen with other titles like Iron Man, which was heavily distorted by PS3 demographic sales. A lot of people have been talking about this being Blu-ray's answer to DVD's The Matrix, but that isn't apparently what has happened.

I'm inclined to believe these figures. They're for worldwide sales, and it's a title everyone's been talking about for a while.

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New releases always do better sales wise, but I'd bet that either Lord of The Rings or Star Wars would be big sellers. As far as planned releases on Blu-ray, I have no idea.]]>Dec 17th 2008 7:24AMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2008/12/17/the-dark-knight-blu-ray-sells-1-7-million-in-a-week-shows-iron/http://hd.engadget.com/2008/12/17/the-dark-knight-blu-ray-sells-1-7-million-in-a-week-shows-iron/
I don't think catalog titles can touch this number - it'll take a new release. The only title I think has a chance is Terminator:Salvation when it comes out on Blu-ray around next Christmas.]]>Dec 17th 2008 8:41AMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2008/12/17/the-dark-knight-blu-ray-sells-1-7-million-in-a-week-shows-iron/http://hd.engadget.com/2008/12/17/the-dark-knight-blu-ray-sells-1-7-million-in-a-week-shows-iron/Dec 17th 2008 10:07AMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2008/12/17/the-dark-knight-blu-ray-sells-1-7-million-in-a-week-shows-iron/http://hd.engadget.com/2008/12/17/the-dark-knight-blu-ray-sells-1-7-million-in-a-week-shows-iron/Dec 17th 2008 8:35PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2008/12/17/the-dark-knight-blu-ray-sells-1-7-million-in-a-week-shows-iron/http://hd.engadget.com/2008/12/17/the-dark-knight-blu-ray-sells-1-7-million-in-a-week-shows-iron/Dec 26th 2008 11:42AMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2008/12/17/the-dark-knight-blu-ray-sells-1-7-million-in-a-week-shows-iron/http://hd.engadget.com/2008/12/17/the-dark-knight-blu-ray-sells-1-7-million-in-a-week-shows-iron/They are huge.

I bet no-one expected DVD sales to be so enormous.

True, the Blu-ray numbers are undeniably their best so far - but you would be pushed to find a movie more targeted at the multi-millions of PS3 owners out there.

Which is why, PS3 owner numbers and the appeal of this movie to them considered, I'd call a mere 1.7 million a disappointment.

Assuming the numbers are true, as Rob says (above), of course.

If Warners really are have exceeded their expectations I'd say that says more about the artificially subterranean level at which they set those projections.

(and as a movie? Pffffh, it's really not all that.
Sorry to be cynical about it but the truth is that Heath Ledger's untimely death was such a boost)

I wonder if the BDA will have the guts to show whether the movie has 'legs' on Blu-ray and issue sales numbers at the 3, 6, 9 & 12mth points?

I'd love to see an unvarnished Blu-ray v DVD unit sales comparison at 12mths. ]]>Dec 17th 2008 8:04AMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2008/12/17/the-dark-knight-blu-ray-sells-1-7-million-in-a-week-shows-iron/http://hd.engadget.com/2008/12/17/the-dark-knight-blu-ray-sells-1-7-million-in-a-week-shows-iron/
What would you have considered a success for this title in regards of sale numbers?




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This is Engadget*HD*.]]>Dec 17th 2008 9:26AMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2008/12/17/the-dark-knight-blu-ray-sells-1-7-million-in-a-week-shows-iron/http://hd.engadget.com/2008/12/17/the-dark-knight-blu-ray-sells-1-7-million-in-a-week-shows-iron/
If there was genuine transparency in the unit sales numbers then it would be clear and obvious for all to see.

Unfortunately there isn't and so it's not hard to suspect everything the BDA or their members say on the matter, their interest in pushing a higher margin product is far too obvious & clear for all to see.

How many PS3s have been sold? 12.5 million according to nexgenwars.
Only getting 1.7 million sales out of that installed base (less including the stand-alones out there) doesn;t strike me as a great success.
Amit it, this movie could hardly have been more aimed at them.

Big Wizz
You own "hard on" for Blu-ray (as if is the only HD to be had anyways) has you blinded to the fact that the BDA numbers are not honest and spin-free.
You carry on enjoying being manipulated and lied to if you like.
When they start posting honest facts then I'll quit picking the obvious holes in their BS.

Oh look, they just tried to ban me again.
What's up EngadgetHD, can't take a contrary opinion that doesn't prostrate itself before the 'awesome' Blu-ray, huh?
LMAO ]]>Dec 17th 2008 9:36AMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2008/12/17/the-dark-knight-blu-ray-sells-1-7-million-in-a-week-shows-iron/http://hd.engadget.com/2008/12/17/the-dark-knight-blu-ray-sells-1-7-million-in-a-week-shows-iron/Dec 17th 2008 9:39AMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2008/12/17/the-dark-knight-blu-ray-sells-1-7-million-in-a-week-shows-iron/http://hd.engadget.com/2008/12/17/the-dark-knight-blu-ray-sells-1-7-million-in-a-week-shows-iron/
You hate Batman
You hate crime drama
You hate comic book film

From a purely "good movie" list of standards it's not an arguable point.

I understand not liking something when it's just not your thing, but I feel like the people who don't like The Dark Knight are the same folks who loved the iPod until everyone else did.

I LOVED Ironman, I was actually starting to think that Batman was up against an unbeatable opponent, especially being a sequel.

Here's the thing:
Ironman was great because it took another of my fantasies and put it on screen in a mind blowing fashion. It was an amazing full speed ahead comic-book film and I would argue in the top 5 comic book films ever made.

The Dark Knight took one of my fantasies and made it REAL, like this could be fucking happening in New York right now if there was a super-motivated guy with limitless resources. It was also more than a comic book movie. It was a great crime drama as well as a statement on the human psyche.

Both great movies in their respective categories, but the Dark knight bridged so many of those categories. Not a lot of films do that.


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Absolute crap, IMO. However, the extra's on the main disc were solid.

And....

The movie still ROCKS. ]]>Dec 17th 2008 9:28AMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2008/12/17/the-dark-knight-blu-ray-sells-1-7-million-in-a-week-shows-iron/http://hd.engadget.com/2008/12/17/the-dark-knight-blu-ray-sells-1-7-million-in-a-week-shows-iron/Dec 17th 2008 4:07PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2008/12/17/the-dark-knight-blu-ray-sells-1-7-million-in-a-week-shows-iron/http://hd.engadget.com/2008/12/17/the-dark-knight-blu-ray-sells-1-7-million-in-a-week-shows-iron/Dec 17th 2008 9:42AMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2008/12/17/the-dark-knight-blu-ray-sells-1-7-million-in-a-week-shows-iron/http://hd.engadget.com/2008/12/17/the-dark-knight-blu-ray-sells-1-7-million-in-a-week-shows-iron/
/fixed.]]>Dec 17th 2008 2:05PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2008/12/17/the-dark-knight-blu-ray-sells-1-7-million-in-a-week-shows-iron/http://hd.engadget.com/2008/12/17/the-dark-knight-blu-ray-sells-1-7-million-in-a-week-shows-iron/Dec 17th 2008 9:58AMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2008/12/17/the-dark-knight-blu-ray-sells-1-7-million-in-a-week-shows-iron/http://hd.engadget.com/2008/12/17/the-dark-knight-blu-ray-sells-1-7-million-in-a-week-shows-iron/Dec 17th 2008 7:11PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2008/12/17/the-dark-knight-blu-ray-sells-1-7-million-in-a-week-shows-iron/http://hd.engadget.com/2008/12/17/the-dark-knight-blu-ray-sells-1-7-million-in-a-week-shows-iron/
Poor pace and lumpy would be my view.

It can't be comic books either, I really enjoyed Sin City.



'Dr' Tedious

Go bore someone else with your feeble little name-calling jibes.]]>Dec 17th 2008 10:50AMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2008/12/17/the-dark-knight-blu-ray-sells-1-7-million-in-a-week-shows-iron/http://hd.engadget.com/2008/12/17/the-dark-knight-blu-ray-sells-1-7-million-in-a-week-shows-iron/
It doesn't look like anyone has mentioned that 1.7 million blu-ray versus 11.8 million DVD is 14.4% market share. While that's more than the weekly average, it still feels fairly closely in line. For a title so many people said they bought a BD player for (me included, honestly), I really would have expected the market share to be higher. This just sounds like a whole lot of copies of the movie were sold and a slightly better, though still close, percentage were BD.]]>Dec 17th 2008 11:08AMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2008/12/17/the-dark-knight-blu-ray-sells-1-7-million-in-a-week-shows-iron/http://hd.engadget.com/2008/12/17/the-dark-knight-blu-ray-sells-1-7-million-in-a-week-shows-iron/Dec 17th 2008 12:06PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2008/12/17/the-dark-knight-blu-ray-sells-1-7-million-in-a-week-shows-iron/http://hd.engadget.com/2008/12/17/the-dark-knight-blu-ray-sells-1-7-million-in-a-week-shows-iron/
You've never heard the expression "play things close to the chest?" It's not a new expression. It's actually an extremely common idiom that came from playing cards. You're obviously free to be bothered by whatever you want about a movie, that just seems like a ridiculous nitpick since it's based on your lack of knowledge of something and not the film inventing an expression.

Sure, not every person who owns a PS3 ran out and bought this last week. I didn't, but not because I don't love the movie. Christmas is a week away, and I'm pretty sure I'm not the only person expecting to get it as a gift this year. I'll be curious to see what the post-holiday numbers are.]]>Dec 17th 2008 12:10PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2008/12/17/the-dark-knight-blu-ray-sells-1-7-million-in-a-week-shows-iron/http://hd.engadget.com/2008/12/17/the-dark-knight-blu-ray-sells-1-7-million-in-a-week-shows-iron/
Google search: Results 1 - 10 of about 474 for "play things close to the chest"

It's really not that common of a phrase, it seems, or it was misworded? I really did try to find the origin of the idiom but was unsuccessful.

What I did find though were things like this: http://blogs.dailyherald.com/node/278
• Early in "The Dark Knight," Bruce Wayne tells Lucius Fox he's "playing this one close to the chest," referring to his dealings with a military cell phone project. About 45 minutes later, Harvey Dent says this to Jim Gordon: "You do play things close to the chest!" A piece of mismatched dialogue like that must be on purpose, right? The Nolans must be implying that Dent and Gordon are working more closely together than we realize, right?

and this: http://community.livejournal.com/ohnotheydidnt/26248989.html?page=9
Bruce tells Fox he's playing this one close to the chest, but when Gordon opens the truck with Harvey in it, Harvey says, "You do like to play things close to the chest", even when both those characters didn't have the first exchange.

It just felt like a continuity error to me, not so much the use of a mystery idiom. I like to learn where things come from so thank you for the cards thing as a google search didn't reveal that.]]>Dec 17th 2008 12:20PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2008/12/17/the-dark-knight-blu-ray-sells-1-7-million-in-a-week-shows-iron/http://hd.engadget.com/2008/12/17/the-dark-knight-blu-ray-sells-1-7-million-in-a-week-shows-iron/
Well, I'm not sure if it's "misworded" or just one of several variations of the phrase. Other slight variations I've heard are "close to the vest" "keeping your cards close to your chest," "playing your cards close to the vest/chest," but they all mean the same thing of course, just that someone isn't being completely open about what they are doing. Try Googling it without quotes around it and you'll find a ton more.

It may be a mismatch, or Nolan may have done it on purpose to keep making slight references to playing cards with the whole Joker thing, but I doubt it. It's really not my place to say.]]>Dec 17th 2008 12:53PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2008/12/17/the-dark-knight-blu-ray-sells-1-7-million-in-a-week-shows-iron/http://hd.engadget.com/2008/12/17/the-dark-knight-blu-ray-sells-1-7-million-in-a-week-shows-iron/
The comment of playing his cards close to the chest started when Gordon went into Dent's office and Gordon wanted Dent to sign for warrents to go hit all the banks at once. He stated that he plays his cards close to his chest.

Also playing cards close to the chest was a common phrase used by officers undercover.
But it is used a lot in Poker, not having those watching know how you play your poker hands. ]]>Dec 17th 2008 4:41PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2008/12/17/the-dark-knight-blu-ray-sells-1-7-million-in-a-week-shows-iron/http://hd.engadget.com/2008/12/17/the-dark-knight-blu-ray-sells-1-7-million-in-a-week-shows-iron/
Seriously, I think the phrase was only used twice but by two different groups of people. When Dent says it to Gordon though it really does sound like they've discussed it before but it wasn't in this scene.

Gordon: I hell you've got a hell of a right cross. It's a shame Sal is going to walk.
Dent: Yeah, well, good thing about the mob is they keep giving you second chances. (flips through stack of money) Lightly eradiated bills. Fancy stuff for a city cop. Have help?
Gordon: We lias with various agencies.
Dent: Save it, Gordon, I want to meet him.
Gordon: Official policy is to arrest the vigialante known as Batman on sight.
Dent: Uh huh, and what about that flood light on the top of MCU?
Gordon: If you've got problems with malfunctioning equipment, I suggest you take them up with maintenance, counselor.
Dent: I've put every known money launderer in Gotham behind bars, and the mob is still getting it's money out. I think you, and your friend, have found the last game in town and you're trying to hit them where it hurts. Their wallets. It's bold. You gonna count me in?
Gordon: In this town, the fewer people that know something, the safer the operation.
Dent: Gordon, I don't like that you've got your own special unit, and I don't like that it's full of cops I investigated at Internal Affairs.
Gordon: If I didn't work with cops you investigated while you were making your name at IA, I'd be working alone. I don't get political points for being an idealist, I have to do the best I can with what I have.
Dent: You want me to back warrants for search and seizure on five banks without telling me what we're after?
Gordon: I can give you the names of the banks.
Dent: Well, that's a start. I'll get you your warrants; but I want your trust.
Gordon: Oh, you don't have to sell me, Dent. We all know you're Gotham's white knight.
Dent: Yeah, well, I heard they have got a different name for me down at MCU.
Gordon: I wouldn't know about that.
Scene End.


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Now the fact that you are nit picking on specific lines shows that you are just looking for a fault in this movie. Tell me a movie you like and we will start to destry the script.

Plus because you never heard a phrase, does not mean it does not exist.
But I could be wrong, Free Range might know every phrase used in humanity.

Jeese, I can't believe I am responding to this crap, but I have nothing to do at work right now. ]]>Dec 18th 2008 11:39AMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2008/12/17/the-dark-knight-blu-ray-sells-1-7-million-in-a-week-shows-iron/http://hd.engadget.com/2008/12/17/the-dark-knight-blu-ray-sells-1-7-million-in-a-week-shows-iron/
And since I didn't know the phrase, (never suggested it WASN'T a phrase, just said I didn't know it... There is a difference) I didn't think to look for the inferred suggestion earlier.

I liked Ronin if you want to go all nuts trying to find fault with it. Knock yourself out. Or, failing that, get back to work.]]>Dec 18th 2008 11:54AMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2008/12/17/the-dark-knight-blu-ray-sells-1-7-million-in-a-week-shows-iron/http://hd.engadget.com/2008/12/17/the-dark-knight-blu-ray-sells-1-7-million-in-a-week-shows-iron/
Love the get back to work comment. ]]>Dec 18th 2008 6:49PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2008/12/17/the-dark-knight-blu-ray-sells-1-7-million-in-a-week-shows-iron/http://hd.engadget.com/2008/12/17/the-dark-knight-blu-ray-sells-1-7-million-in-a-week-shows-iron/
You're good people. Your avatar has been my desktop image for longer than I can remember.

Common ground, my friend. Common ground.

I want a Jean Reno film where he beats the shit out of Jason Statham. There, I said it. Don't know why I said it, but I did.]]>Dec 18th 2008 7:27PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2008/12/17/the-dark-knight-blu-ray-sells-1-7-million-in-a-week-shows-iron/http://hd.engadget.com/2008/12/17/the-dark-knight-blu-ray-sells-1-7-million-in-a-week-shows-iron/Dec 19th 2008 8:34AMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2008/12/17/the-dark-knight-blu-ray-sells-1-7-million-in-a-week-shows-iron/http://hd.engadget.com/2008/12/17/the-dark-knight-blu-ray-sells-1-7-million-in-a-week-shows-iron/
It's just a bit long for me so I'll watch bits and pieces for now. And, to be honest, I'm thinking I may want to see it again in it's entirety but I understand it's being re-released in imax next month so I'm debating that if I'm going to sit through it again any time soon, I should choose that screen over my 32-inch. Does that sound reasonable?

Little story for you: I had a girlfriend (a very smart girl) while I was in college who was so sure I grew up in a hick town that when I'd say idioms I'd picked up she would laugh because she was from the big city, and big city people didn't say those things. One day I said, "Call a spade a spade" and she asked what a spade was so I told her it was a shovel. She laughed at me and said it was another one of those silly hick phrases; about a shovel, no less! Nevermind that I picked it up from Hamlet Act 5, scene 1 (I use it a bit differently, though, as the actual phrase, word for word, is harder to fit into a conversation). Moral of the story: Different people know different phrases and that's fine.

My comment, if you'll read it (guessing you didn't since you seem to think someone said the movie sucked), was how it was used repeatedly. Not that it was used at all.]]>Dec 19th 2008 10:28AMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2008/12/17/the-dark-knight-blu-ray-sells-1-7-million-in-a-week-shows-iron/http://hd.engadget.com/2008/12/17/the-dark-knight-blu-ray-sells-1-7-million-in-a-week-shows-iron/
It says something when in this rancid economy, people are running out to spend 2X the price of a DVD for a BD movie.]]>Dec 17th 2008 11:05AMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2008/12/17/the-dark-knight-blu-ray-sells-1-7-million-in-a-week-shows-iron/http://hd.engadget.com/2008/12/17/the-dark-knight-blu-ray-sells-1-7-million-in-a-week-shows-iron/Dec 17th 2008 11:41AMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2008/12/17/the-dark-knight-blu-ray-sells-1-7-million-in-a-week-shows-iron/http://hd.engadget.com/2008/12/17/the-dark-knight-blu-ray-sells-1-7-million-in-a-week-shows-iron/
Go Blu!]]>Dec 17th 2008 11:53AMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2008/12/17/the-dark-knight-blu-ray-sells-1-7-million-in-a-week-shows-iron/http://hd.engadget.com/2008/12/17/the-dark-knight-blu-ray-sells-1-7-million-in-a-week-shows-iron/
For those who still hold hope of Bl-ray's demise, keep on hoping, perhaps one day if you wait long enough, blu-ray will eventually be replaced by something else and you can claim blu-ray has died....then you can go home to mommy and celebrate...]]>Dec 17th 2008 12:36PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2008/12/17/the-dark-knight-blu-ray-sells-1-7-million-in-a-week-shows-iron/http://hd.engadget.com/2008/12/17/the-dark-knight-blu-ray-sells-1-7-million-in-a-week-shows-iron/
It has everything to do with the lack of honesty in reporting the numbers and where things are and particularly the laughable deception that has been going on right from the start as the BDA try to make out that Blu-ray stands a hope in hell of replacing DVD.

It doesn't - and the DVD sales numbers for this movie simply go to make that very very clear.

Everyone knows (because DVD is a mature market) that launch sales do not reflect the whole story, you need to see the DVD numbers at the 3 or 6mth point as prices fall, whereas Blu-ray's sales (as a largely early adopters format) tail off relatively quickly.

That's the truth of the situation, and whilst the CE corps and the movie studios might gurn and cry about low unit margins on DVD it is more than made up for by far larger volume sales.

You're right about one thing though, Blu-ray will end up being replaced - just don't be too surprised if it's a lot sooner than you want to believe.

'The next DVD' it most certainly is not.]]>Dec 17th 2008 1:10PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2008/12/17/the-dark-knight-blu-ray-sells-1-7-million-in-a-week-shows-iron/http://hd.engadget.com/2008/12/17/the-dark-knight-blu-ray-sells-1-7-million-in-a-week-shows-iron/
No, blu-ray won't completely replace DVD in the SD world, but as more and more HD begins to trickle into the living room, Blu-ray will continue to increase. We're less than a year since a single HD format was crowned the winner and no sane person would expect immediate mass adoption. It will be a gradual adoption as the HDTV market heats up that will be a leading indicator of blu-ray's growth. Blu-ray has infiltrated Walmart's electronic sections of America. It is becoming a very visible and recognizable next-gen movie platform that all who drool over HDTV's will also see Blu-ray as part of their dream system.

It's happening. Couple weeks ago, I went to buy a Samsung BDP-1500 at Walmart for $198, there were only two left, all other blu-ray players were sold out, including thet $120 something Memorex BD player. 2009 like I have said before will be a growth period and an indicator of how strong the format and demand for HD media will be.

Right now BD is not the next DVD, because just as DVD has reigned during the SD age, Blu-ray will reign during the coming HD age....

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Also in the product life cycle everything gets replaced. At the begining DVD was an upstart and eventually it replaced VHS and CDs (software).]]>Dec 17th 2008 2:01PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2008/12/17/the-dark-knight-blu-ray-sells-1-7-million-in-a-week-shows-iron/http://hd.engadget.com/2008/12/17/the-dark-knight-blu-ray-sells-1-7-million-in-a-week-shows-iron/this past weekend and at the end we just all just said WOW! Dark Knight really shows off what Blu-ray can do. I think it will only help sell more Blu-ray players to people who own HDTV's. ]]>Dec 17th 2008 2:28PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2008/12/17/the-dark-knight-blu-ray-sells-1-7-million-in-a-week-shows-iron/http://hd.engadget.com/2008/12/17/the-dark-knight-blu-ray-sells-1-7-million-in-a-week-shows-iron/But looking at it the other way... this movie was expected to break records because of how much it made in the theatres, coupled with the time of year this is coming out (Christmas).

Now for the bad news, I don't think their is a Blu movie I want to buy for a while until Mid February when Ronin is released on Blu. ]]>Dec 17th 2008 4:47PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2008/12/17/the-dark-knight-blu-ray-sells-1-7-million-in-a-week-shows-iron/http://hd.engadget.com/2008/12/17/the-dark-knight-blu-ray-sells-1-7-million-in-a-week-shows-iron/BTW, it looks AWESOME. ]]>Dec 17th 2008 5:23PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2008/12/17/the-dark-knight-blu-ray-sells-1-7-million-in-a-week-shows-iron/http://hd.engadget.com/2008/12/17/the-dark-knight-blu-ray-sells-1-7-million-in-a-week-shows-iron/Dec 18th 2008 8:27AM