Weekly Blu-ray sales up 120% year-over-year, DVD down 13%
- Posted May 30th, 2009 at 05:41 EDT by Adam Dolge
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The latest Blu-ray sales figures are out, and Valkyrie topped Taken for the top spot in the U.S. for the week ending May 24, according to Nielson VideoScan First Alert. More importantly, however, Blu-ray sales continue to grow, up 119.47% in total revenue from this week last year, while DVD sales are down 13.10% from last year.
While the Blu-ray format is certainly gaining momentum, it has well over another year to go before it comes close to overtaking DVD. This week's top 20 DVDs outsold the week's top 20 Blu-ray discs by over six to one (6:1).
Below are the top 10 best-selling Blu-rays this week, in order:
- Valkyrie
- Taken
- Paul Blart: Mall Cop
- My Bloody Valentine 3D
- Underworld: Rise of the Lycans
- True Blood: The Complete First Season
- A Bug's Life
- Terminator 2: Judgment Day
- 24: Season 7
- Star Trek: Original Motion Picture Collection
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higgos22
- 6:06am BST - May 30th, 2009
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@ 1 seconded no wait thirded and yeh bluray in less than a yr hopefully will overtake dvd sales wise then eventually all together
anyways i know they r trying to make a new bluray disk which is good but they should sa=tart making entire seasons of tv shows on a bluray disk and with a larger disk u could make the season hd aswell
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Intervention
- 6:26am BST - May 30th, 2009
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Now if only the price of BD-R/RW media would drop to a reasonable price.
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radgamer420 |
mistercrow- 10:54am BST - May 30th, 2009
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Makes you wonder how many people are buying PS3 just as a reasonably priced Sony bluray player.
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Staticneuron |
Staticneuron- 2:02pm BST - May 30th, 2009
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Considering there are far cheaper final profile blu ray players out there. It would be stupid for some who is not interested in games... to get the more expensive PS3 for the sole purpose of playing blu rays. Take for instance the Samsung BD-P1600 is $250 and it is also 2.0.
The idea of people purchasing PS3's because it was a decent priced 2.0 player is long obsolete.
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C64isStillTheBest
- 8:11pm BST - May 30th, 2009
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This is great. And the xbots and microsofties were saying that after DVD we're going to digital downloads LOL. I watch heroes on Netflix on my brand new 23" 1080p monitor for my PC and with a fast cable connection it is still standard definition. I cannot imagine how 720p much less 1080p would slow the stream. True HD digital downloads are years away.
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