Blu-ray Disc Sales Continue Dominance

According to Home Media Research, during the first half of 2007 a total of 1.6M movies were sold on the Blu-ray format. Rival HD DVD sold less than half during the same time period, with a total of 795,000 movies sold. Since the launch of the formats, Blu-ray has amassed sales of 2.2M movies compared to just 1.5M on HD DVD (which includes data collected through July). Blu-ray continues to maintain a 2:1 sales advantage over its rival heading into the all-important holiday shopping season, and with the long list of upcoming Blu-ray releases, including 'Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End' and 'Spider-man 3', that sales advantage will continue to increase. Consumers are overwhelmingly showing their support for Blu-ray, a fact that has not escaped many studios and retailers who recently announced Blu-ray exclusivity. The recent release of Warner Brothers '300' gave a sales boost to both formats. The Blu-ray version sold 190,000 copies since the title went on sale, compared to 97,000 on HD DVD, according to Warner's Steve Nickerson. Since the majority of these sales occurred in August, Blu-ray is expecting to report strong numbers for the month.
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gamer4eva  » Aug 14, 2007
on man we smashed HD-DeaD hahahahahahaahaahahaaa with oceans trilogy HP movies Die Hard anthology pirates spidey trilogy and other awesome movies that are gonna be relesed during the holiday season these numbers should grow to 3:1 now warner must pull their socks up and give us matrix

atdm71  » Aug 14, 2007
Wow, Nickerson's made reference to the splits. Nice! I did expect Warner to eventually come clean with the splits but not from the HD DVD guy. I'm tellin' ya -- continuing to buying the stink out of '300' on Blu-ray is so important right now. The spread will continue to grab headlines.

atdm71  » Aug 14, 2007
If Fox decides to show up and make some money, you'll see your 3:1 ratio before year end.

nhaase  » Aug 15, 2007
Selling 100k more copies of 300 would be outstanding if it happens soon.

Imagine  » Aug 15, 2007
You know, if Fox released the Star Wars trilogies on Blu-Ray, like, say, along with the PS3 release of 'Force Unleashed'? That'd be a pretty big blow for HD DVD. Although it doesn't have much to do with this topic.

bluskiff  » Aug 15, 2007
SHHHHHHH don't say starwars you could jinx it.

highdefw  » Aug 15, 2007

Actually, rumors have been going around since the beginning of the year saying Star Wars would be exclusive to Blu-ray. I do believe there will be an announcement sometime next years about the series... Anyways, George Lucas has been busy since he is remastering all of the movies in 3-D. Like that Spy Kids movie, but without the glasses. Should look awesome. The process takes so long though, that they will only be able to convert 1 movie a year. So 6 years from now, every star wars movie will be in high def and in 3-D. Back to the the topic.... Blu-ray pwning HD-DVD. The only thing holding HD-DVD is universal. If they lose that exclusivity, then the war will officially be over

jcdDigix  » Aug 15, 2007
YiHaw!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! My Planet is true BLU.

darinp2  » Aug 15, 2007

I realize his 190k and 97k were likely rounded (as was the 250k), but ignoring that for the moment and just going by the 100/52.34 ratio we got from HMM last Friday that calculated to 164107 and 85893, that would mean 25893 to 11107 since then, or a ratio of 2.33:1 for Blu-ray (it was about 1.91:1 for the first week). Not sure when these numbers are through, but it would also seem to indicate a fast dropoff for both sides from the first week. It will be interesting to see how the numbers look on Friday from HMM.

M_FRESH  » Aug 15, 2007
Good news but when is this finally going to end. It needs to happen soon...

Sincity884  » Aug 15, 2007
That cool keep the good new coming

w_tanoto  » Aug 15, 2007
still waiting for universal to turn blue!! Rule, blu-ray disc, blu-ray disc rule the world, HD DVD shall be slave!

Metal_Kizz  » Aug 15, 2007

I looked through my dvd collection the other day to realise just how few good universal films id bought, mainly the bourne films and the french film "brotherhood of the wolf" which are on hd dvd . i want them on blu ray as theyre awesome. i was loving the road warrior on dvd! :P brought back memories haha ^_^. i want fox to release 28 days/weeks later and sunshine on blu ray . i hear theres a japanese sunshine release but no european or american version :/

moweeis  » Aug 15, 2007
300 isn't even released in all countries yet, so sales should still rise a bit

mctiller  » Aug 15, 2007
Yeah, don't expect Star Wars anytime soon. Remember how long it took GL to get it on DVD!

E-Dogg  » Aug 15, 2007
The good news just keeps on coming down the pipeline. Numbers don't lie and it's good to see that people are waking up and realizing what is the better format.

CptGreedle  » Aug 15, 2007
And to think, HD-DVD was released earlier than Blu-ray, and yet Blu-ray is dominating the market! sings... "The world is a carousel of Blu-ray! Beautiful, colorful, Blu-ray!"

cdiasmd  » Aug 16, 2007
Looks like I'm backing the right horse in this race!

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