http://hd.engadget.com/2009/02/02/blu-ray-catching-on-in-australia/ Engadget HD Comments for Blu-ray catching on in Australia http://hd.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://hd.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2009 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://hd.engadget.com/2009/02/02/blu-ray-catching-on-in-australia/http://hd.engadget.com/2009/02/02/blu-ray-catching-on-in-australia/Feb 2nd 2009 4:17PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2009/02/02/blu-ray-catching-on-in-australia/http://hd.engadget.com/2009/02/02/blu-ray-catching-on-in-australia/]]>Feb 2nd 2009 4:44PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2009/02/02/blu-ray-catching-on-in-australia/http://hd.engadget.com/2009/02/02/blu-ray-catching-on-in-australia/Feb 3rd 2009 12:26AMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2009/02/02/blu-ray-catching-on-in-australia/http://hd.engadget.com/2009/02/02/blu-ray-catching-on-in-australia/I live in Aus and I don't know one single person with a blu ray player other than myself and I regularly look at the available movies at my local stores and hardly anything moves off the shelves ever. Also, my local video shops have ZERO blu rays for rent, not one single movie to be found anywhere.
I read recently that we were 1% here in Oz, I will try to find that link, because IMO and experience, 1% would be closer to the truth then 5%.
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It's just a pity the 29 titles is so off, lol.]]>Feb 2nd 2009 7:50PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2009/02/02/blu-ray-catching-on-in-australia/http://hd.engadget.com/2009/02/02/blu-ray-catching-on-in-australia/
http://www.ezydvd.com.au/blu-ray.zml

Gus, HD-DVD is dead, accept it. Plus, you need to get out more. My local Video EZY has heaps of Blu-rays, growing by the day. Every time I go to JB Hi-Fi the Blu-ray wall gets bigger and bigger. So do the sales.

I know quite a few people with Blu-ray players, actually. Most of them PS-3s. Geez, I'm the AV geek amongst them, and I haven't even got a player yet! I'm waiting for a standalone that plays MP3 and Divx.

Blu-ray is definitely catching on.]]>Feb 2nd 2009 6:44PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2009/02/02/blu-ray-catching-on-in-australia/http://hd.engadget.com/2009/02/02/blu-ray-catching-on-in-australia/I stand by what I said, there is none in my area, if that's different in yours, good luck to you.

Ezy DVD is in the hands of the receivers too by the way!]]>Feb 2nd 2009 8:48PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2009/02/02/blu-ray-catching-on-in-australia/http://hd.engadget.com/2009/02/02/blu-ray-catching-on-in-australia/All I have ever wanted is factual information, something sorely missing whenever the BDA is involved and I wouldn't trust them as far as I could kick them. Blu ray IS growing, I just don't believe these numbers.
(For what it's worth, Big W currently is having a blu sale, I bought Transformers, Eagle Eye and Iron man on Sunday.)

From the article....
"In the second quarter of 2008, 207,841 HD movies were sold, up 7.2 per cent on the first quarter but still only 1.35 per cent of the total DVD movie market, which represented $283.6 million in total sales for the quarter."

http://www.news.com.au/technology/story/0,28348,24522714-5014239,00.html]]>Feb 2nd 2009 9:28PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2009/02/02/blu-ray-catching-on-in-australia/http://hd.engadget.com/2009/02/02/blu-ray-catching-on-in-australia/Feb 2nd 2009 11:05PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2009/02/02/blu-ray-catching-on-in-australia/http://hd.engadget.com/2009/02/02/blu-ray-catching-on-in-australia/
I own 45 Blu-rays myself and all have been purchased in Aus so there goes that theory...]]>Feb 3rd 2009 12:40AMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2009/02/02/blu-ray-catching-on-in-australia/http://hd.engadget.com/2009/02/02/blu-ray-catching-on-in-australia/Feb 3rd 2009 1:11AMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2009/02/02/blu-ray-catching-on-in-australia/http://hd.engadget.com/2009/02/02/blu-ray-catching-on-in-australia/Feb 3rd 2009 7:05AMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2009/02/02/blu-ray-catching-on-in-australia/http://hd.engadget.com/2009/02/02/blu-ray-catching-on-in-australia/Feb 3rd 2009 7:40PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2009/02/02/blu-ray-catching-on-in-australia/http://hd.engadget.com/2009/02/02/blu-ray-catching-on-in-australia/Feb 8th 2009 11:09AM