Digital doesn't break disc- DVD, BD hold up despite onslaught of negative press

[HiDefFanboy]

Sure sounds to me like Digital Downloads is failing badly. (Ok, I know better than that - DD will increase in both sales and quality until one day in the next 15 years it may be my format of choice, Unless something newer and better comes along much quicker.)

[theflux]

Digital Downloads are the future. Just like the flying car.

[HiDefFanboy]

Originally Posted by theflux

Digital Downloads are the future. Just like the flying car.

To Paraphrase - Digital Downloads 'are' the future... and always will be!

[C.S.Strowbridge]

Originally Posted by HiDefFanboy

Sure sounds to me like Digital Downloads is failing badly. (Ok, I know better than that - DD will increase in both sales and quality until one day in the next 15 years it may be my format of choice, Unless something newer and better comes along much quicker.)

I want something physical I can hold, even for pottable medium. For instance, I buy CDs and rip them myself, which is legal in Canada. (Not sure about the states.)

Movies are not portable by their nature. Sure, you can take them with you, but it is a lot harder to watch them while you go. (Unlike music.)

So while Digital Downloads may continue to grow, Blu-ray is already bigger and growing faster.

[Menaceuk]

The big problem for downloads is the fact that you can get a DVD player for around the same price or cheaper than a months worth of really fat broadband.

DVD's have sales 24/7 and can be got very cheap.


Blu-ray will continue to pick up pace as the years go by and prices fall on players and software and HD TV's too.


I really dont think downloads will overtake optical media in the next 10 years

[Grubert]

Originally Posted by Jimbo976

And of course that is SD + HD downloads with almost all of that being SD downloads.

... and download-to-own + download-to-rent.

[mikemorel]

Originally Posted by zombieflanders

Blu-ray: Out since 2006, nearly $200m in sales in the slowest 6 months of the year, 340% growth.


Good times.

Blu-ray disc sales, in January 2008 = 1.3 million.

Bllu-ray disc sales, in April 2008 = 900,000.

Thise are BDA numbers.

Blu-ray withering into UMD status. Good times.

[bt12483]

Originally Posted by mikemorel

Blu-ray disc sales, in January 2008 = 1.3 million.

Bllu-ray disc sales, in April 2008 = 900,000.

Thise are BDA numbers.

Blu-ray withering into UMD status. Good times.

Blu-ray disc sales, in January 2007 = 1.3 million/4 = 325,000

Bllu-ray disc sales, in April 2007 = 900,000/4 = 225,000.

Growth from 2007 to 2008 = 550,000 to 2,200,000 (~4x).

Blu-ray growing into mass level status. Good times.

[ack_bak]

Originally Posted by mikemorel

Blu-ray disc sales, in January 2008 = 1.3 million.

Bllu-ray disc sales, in April 2008 = 900,000.

Thise are BDA numbers.

Blu-ray withering into UMD status. Good times.

If Blu-Ray is withering to UMD status, what does that mean for downloads?

Another sore loser comment from mikemorel=good times

[mikemorel]

Originally Posted by ack_bak

If Blu-Ray is withering to UMD status, what does that mean for downloads?

Another sore loser comment from mikemorel=good times

HD Downloads need a standard, which is coming in October. It's called DVD. You may have heard of it.

Look for it at a web site, video store, or shopping mall kiosk near you. Millions of XBox 360s, PCs, Roku Boxes, set top boxes, HD DVD players (and possibly PS3s, and BD Live players) will be playing them.

Really good times.

[Intamin]

Originally Posted by mikemorel

Blu-ray disc sales, in January 2008 = 1.3 million.

Bllu-ray disc sales, in April 2008 = 900,000.

Thise are BDA numbers.

Blu-ray withering into UMD status. Good times.

Would you look at that, the numbers from January, the month after Christmas when people got giftcards and players, is greater than April where nothing is going on. Who would have thought!?!

[mikemorel]

Originally Posted by bt12483

Blu-ray disc sales, in January 2007 = 1.3 million/4 = 325,000

Bllu-ray disc sales, in April 2007 = 900,000/4 = 225,000.

Growth from 2007 to 2008 = 550,000 to 2,200,000 (~4x).

Blu-ray growing into mass level status. Good times.

Haa...Priceless. Major studios spend millions to author, replicate and distribute 650 titles to sell 900,000 copies in April, for an average of 1500 copies per title. BTxxxxx thinks that is "growing into mass market".

When, by 2020?

I wonder if there are 2 or 3 titles among that 650 that sold zero copies in April...Could that be possible?

[mikemorel]

Originally Posted by Intamin

Would you look at that, the numbers from January, the month after Christmas when people got giftcards and players, is greater than April where nothing is going on. Who would have thought!?!

People who thought the format war was the reason that BD disc sales were so pathetic thought that.

I guess they were wrong. Sales weren't pathetic because of the format war at all. They were pathetic because nobody wants to buy them.

[jcc]

Originally Posted by mikemorel

People who thought the format war was the reason that BD disc sales were so pathetic thought that.

I guess they were wrong. Sales weren't pathetic because of the format war at all. They were pathetic because nobody wants to buy them.

All a matter of perception. The sales numbes are good as a start. The growth numbers are excellent, better than any other fomat at the moment.

If you want to deny that fine, it's your loss. I'm enjoying my 1080p/ lossless audio.

[bt12483]

Originally Posted by mikemorel

People who thought the format war was the reason that BD disc sales were so pathetic thought that.

I guess they were wrong. Sales weren't pathetic because of the format war at all. They were pathetic because nobody wants to buy them.

and yet more and more movies keep getting announced daily...please explain why they keep announcing titles if no one is buying them...