Blu-ray isn’t dead yet. Sales of Blu-ray players in Japan topped sales of regular DVD players for the first time last month, an indication that consumers are finally warming up to the high-def format. Spun a different way, sales of Blu-ray alone in April were three times the amount of both Blu-ray and HD DVD combined in January.
Reasons for the sudden uptick in sales include people finally coming to terms with the end of the high-def format war to HDTVs no longer being seen as a luxury, but merely the type of TV that one buys now.
Sales are expected to rise even further as manufacturers slash prices in the run-up to the Beijing Olympics.
I’ll get by with rips, thanks.
This seems like non-news to me. They’re now selling more BluRay players than DVD players? How many DVD players are people buying? Who doesn’t have one at this point?
Plus, BluRay players can play DVDs, can’t they? So that would shift the number even more.
It’s like saying 2008 cars are OUTSELLING 2005 cars. Of course it would.
Because it’s the first time that’s ever happened, Blu-ray outselling regular DVD? I thought that much was clear from the first sentence.
Id buy more blu ray if the dollar wasn’t crap and gas didn’t cost my life.
Does anyone know what kind of movies the Playstation 4 will play? Isn’t it getting too late to jump on the Blu ray boat if the life span of a video game system is 4 years?
but only in Japan, worldwide blu-ray is dead