http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/18/blu-ray-sales-were-up-67-percent-in-2009/ Engadget Comments for Blu-ray sales were up 67 percent in 2009 http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/18/blu-ray-sales-were-up-67-percent-in-2009/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/18/blu-ray-sales-were-up-67-percent-in-2009/Jan 18th 2010 5:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/18/blu-ray-sales-were-up-67-percent-in-2009/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/18/blu-ray-sales-were-up-67-percent-in-2009/
I agree and it's particularly nice to see a lot of BluRays coming with DVD & digital formats. That helps a lot because let's face it, we have DVD players all over the place, from kitchens to cars... Then it also helps that the players themselves have dropped. I was looking at a Samsung with wifi for $250 but thought why bother when the PS3 is $299. I now see players in the $100 range which makes them more accessible to people on a budget.

I have set my BlockBuster for BluRay and leaving NetFlix at DVD and mainly for streaming.]]>Jan 19th 2010 1:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/18/blu-ray-sales-were-up-67-percent-in-2009/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/18/blu-ray-sales-were-up-67-percent-in-2009/Jan 18th 2010 6:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/18/blu-ray-sales-were-up-67-percent-in-2009/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/18/blu-ray-sales-were-up-67-percent-in-2009/Jan 18th 2010 8:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/18/blu-ray-sales-were-up-67-percent-in-2009/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/18/blu-ray-sales-were-up-67-percent-in-2009/
There were probably a few others, but no major theatrical release.

-Pie]]>Jan 18th 2010 9:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/18/blu-ray-sales-were-up-67-percent-in-2009/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/18/blu-ray-sales-were-up-67-percent-in-2009/
As the others said, nearly every new release is on blu ray. Also, I just looked at my netflix queue. 83% of it is blu ray.

Disc availability is coming along quite nicely. Now if we could just do something about the price.]]>Jan 19th 2010 11:44AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/18/blu-ray-sales-were-up-67-percent-in-2009/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/18/blu-ray-sales-were-up-67-percent-in-2009/Jan 19th 2010 4:12AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/18/blu-ray-sales-were-up-67-percent-in-2009/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/18/blu-ray-sales-were-up-67-percent-in-2009/
With the exception of one 22 dollar Criterion disc, I haven't paid more than 19.99 for a new release on blu-ray in almost a year. Amazon always has good deals (sometimes for 15.99 and 17.99 if you preorder) and (surprisingly) Wal-Mart and Target often have competative prices as well. Best Buy is still stuck in 2008 as far astheir non-sale prices go and Borders and Barnes and Noble actually charge full MSRP (course they do the same for books).

But all in all, Blu-ray disc prices are really coming down. The recent Harry Potter Blu-ray 3 pack with 2 BD's a DVD and a digital copy was 19.99 the day of release at Target. Unbelievably, the single DVD box of the same movie (without digital copy) was priced at 19.99 and thhey sat side by side on the new release end cap. ]]>Jan 19th 2010 1:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/18/blu-ray-sales-were-up-67-percent-in-2009/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/18/blu-ray-sales-were-up-67-percent-in-2009/Jan 19th 2010 8:51AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/18/blu-ray-sales-were-up-67-percent-in-2009/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/18/blu-ray-sales-were-up-67-percent-in-2009/
Only HD format Disk
PS3 Slim
Price of many new blu-ray has drop from $20 release instead of $27+]]>Jan 19th 2010 2:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/18/blu-ray-sales-were-up-67-percent-in-2009/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/18/blu-ray-sales-were-up-67-percent-in-2009/
Not to mention you can buy a name-brand BD player for between $100-150 in a retail store.]]>Jan 19th 2010 2:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/18/blu-ray-sales-were-up-67-percent-in-2009/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/18/blu-ray-sales-were-up-67-percent-in-2009/Jan 19th 2010 3:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/18/blu-ray-sales-were-up-67-percent-in-2009/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/18/blu-ray-sales-were-up-67-percent-in-2009/
Blu-ray is dead, its just has time to show groth before it starts to decline like DVD is now... Consider what they pointed out, the increase in Blu-ray didn't counter act the decrease in the over all DVD market, optical media is on the decline, theres no way around it.]]>Jan 19th 2010 8:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/18/blu-ray-sales-were-up-67-percent-in-2009/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/18/blu-ray-sales-were-up-67-percent-in-2009/
Interesting too that it looks like this year - and I'd be very happy for someone to prove me wrong on this one - they've chickened out of telling anyone the actual numbers of dics sold over the course of the year.

People get suspicious of their whole marketing BS when they pull stunts like that (particularly as they do mention DVDs annual sales figures).]]>Jan 19th 2010 9:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/18/blu-ray-sales-were-up-67-percent-in-2009/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/18/blu-ray-sales-were-up-67-percent-in-2009/
I do recall saying it would never be the success DVD has been and that it was the worst choice for getting high definition movies on disc out into the mass-market of the 2 then competing formats.

Look what's happened, 67% growth is not even close to DVD at this stage doubling sales year after year after year.
They've even had to slash prices to get even this traction in the marketplace (with all that entails in reducing the incentive for companies to stay with the format......basically it's now almost as 'profit-lite' as DVD) .

That Samsung guy looks to be right (he reckoned Blu-ray had 5yrs in the sun, in late 2008).

2013 seems reasonable as the time when the emphasis will shift.
I expect between the market fracturing between VOD and Digital Distribution etc etc those who say Blu-ray is the last new physical format are right - I wouldn't be at all surprised if DVD was still going strong by then and (easily) out-lives Blu.]]>Jan 19th 2010 9:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/18/blu-ray-sales-were-up-67-percent-in-2009/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/18/blu-ray-sales-were-up-67-percent-in-2009/Jan 19th 2010 10:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/18/blu-ray-sales-were-up-67-percent-in-2009/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/18/blu-ray-sales-were-up-67-percent-in-2009/
Nope, not in the least bit "upset".

I prefer to know the actual true state of affairs (which a definitive number of sales, like they gave last year, would have given).
Not the lying manipulative PR puff.

If anything I'm simply & merely disappointed that we are now left with high definition format which is patently failing to deliver what ought to have been delivered.

Of course I'm enjoying the movies.

But it's crystal clear by now that this is not going to be the ubiquitous product DVD is.
By extension it is also clear that those of us who had hoped to see a disc based high definition format that was be deeply established and last (like DVD has) are going to be straight out of luck.

Oh well, perhaps digital will be the one, afterall once we get to true 2K images there's no way the regular home viewer will 'need' anything more. ]]>Jan 20th 2010 4:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/18/blu-ray-sales-were-up-67-percent-in-2009/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/18/blu-ray-sales-were-up-67-percent-in-2009/why didnt they sell legally 720p movies that was compressed to fit on a dvd when the hd times started way back?
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But in the last 2 or 3 months that has all changed. 6 of my 25 coworkers got blu-ray players for Christmas this year and several more have come up to me in the last month and asked me which blu-ray players they should buy. These are not videophiles of audiophiles. They are average, moderately affluent 25-50 year olds who have HDTV's and want to fill them with HD content. They like the bonus add of Netflix streaming too but still find Netflix disc rentals to be the most cost effective way to get the movies they want to see.

Its very easy to lose sight that the average consumer is not as tech savvy as an Engadget reader (nor as bored with last years technology). Some might proclaim that physical media is "dead. But with over half of all music sold still being sold via CD over ten years into the mp3 revolution its clear that physical media still has a lot of life left in it (video even more so than music).

The mainstream (which is where all the money is) changes slowly. Physical video formats might finally "die" in 10 or 15 years but in the meantime there is a healthy amount of money to made off of it. It may never be the singular dominating force that DVD was but I think it may just be the most successful format for the next 5-10 years.]]>Jan 21st 2010 8:16PM