1st quarter Blu-ray sales up 68 percent over last year
posted April 5th 2010 11:53AM
These updates are getting rather boring now that Blu-ray has a well established foothold in the packaged media business, but it's still interesting to note that for the 1st quarter of 2010, sales were up 68.5 percent over the same quarter last year. Overall packaged media was up 3.1 percent, which isn't saying that much since overall sales were hit pretty hard last year. We're not good enough at calculating percentages to determine if it was our favorite HD format that made up the difference, but Blu-ray did account for 12.3 percent of packaged media in the same time frame, versus 7 percent in 2009. Ultimately we aren't really that interested in the business side of it, but we know the studios are so if they are happy, then that means we will continue to be able to enjoy Blu-ray discs at home.
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I've noticed that many of the Blu-Ray discs I buy are under $15 (some being under $10). I'm not paying $25-$30 for one movie no matter how good the quality is.
Could the lowered prices have anything to do with it?
It may be up 68% over last year, yet it has still to crack the 20% mark, and its still hovering below the top marks in sales at around 18% for big titles.
Jeezus EngadgetHD, change your interface back to the way it was a year or so ago. Maybe you would have more commentor. 3 comments on a Blu-Ray story? Weird, dead site.