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Blu-ray Disc Among Top Selling DVDs at Amazon
An anonymous reader writes "In a milestone for the next-gen disc format, the Blu-ray edition of 'Casino Royale' cracked the top ten on Amazon's DVD top sellers list upon its release Tuesday, peaking late in the evening at #8. Of course, the two-disc standard-def DVD still topped the chart at #1, but a strong showing for Blu-ray regardless."
This is just like when the SNES was ahead of PS3 on amazon right? I really don't think these numbers mean anything
Hard to deny this as evidence. While the war is far from over, Sony has effectively flanked HD-DVD by equiping it as standard on the PS3 (I know everyone else claims they are sitting on store shelves, but I've yet to see one), plus they've learned one lesson from the Beta days, Blu-Ray has more capacity than the competition this time.
I know a lot of people probably don't use their PS2's as DVD players, but some do (I do). I think that once the PS3 starts rolling, Blue Ray will pick up some serious steam.
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I guess then it should be pointed out that you left the part out about the fact that there wasn't a major HD-DVD release in the same time frame.
This format war may well be decided by titles rather than player sales.
I still think HD-DVD has the best chance if they can make the hybrid disks (HD-DVD that will play in DVD players) a big enough deal to get the major publishers to completely switch to them on new releases.
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Agreed, as an early UK adopter of HD-DVD (because the xbox add-on is about a third of the price of blu-ray) I do find the current selection appalling and what little selection there is is usually out of stock :-(
If Casino Royale had been released on HD-DVD I would have been the first in-line.
I just hope "someone" wins the highdef war so we don't end up in the DVD-A/SACD situation where both formats appear to have lost.
Yeah, the PS2 wasn't so good. Still, for a lot of people it was a great value to have a DVD player and a game system in one box, if only because it was rare to have many component inputs until the last few years.
But just about every review of the PS3 you can read, including this one, says that the Xbox 360 is the next generation shitty-PS2-esque DVD player. The picture is grainy and ugly. Sony seems to have learned from their mistake on this one, the PS3 is just about the best non-upconverting DVD player I've ever seen, and I've owned a few.
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People who can afford the PS3 and a high-definition television (and maybe a 10x overpriced cord, if they don't wise up).
Seriously, for someone with a large HDTV, Blu-ray turns movis from a grainy experience with mediocre sound and washed out colors into a theater-quality experience. If your TV is larger than 40", 16:9(or 10) aspect, a high-def source is pretty much necessary to lot look blurry and grainy.
I don't own many Blu-ray discs, but I do own a few, and they are awesome to behold.
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I see ads on TV for the blu-ray format and blu-ray discs every day now (almost at every commercial break when I'm watching HDNET and other HD channels). I have YET to see a single ad for HD-DVD or an HD-DVD release. Not one.
Blu-ray is beginning to make some name recognition headway. No one even knows HD-DVD exists. Blu-ray is getting new releases all the time. HD-DVD new releases have dried up to almost nothing.
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Those that were too quick to discard blu-ray as the next beta will have a nice ample serve of humble pie waiting for them.
Okay, okay. Blu-Ray isn't the next Beta.
It's the next DVD-Audio, and HD-DVD is the next SACD.
Neither of which has yet managed to convinced the majority of the market to give up the 25-plus-year-old CD format.
Perhaps, but saying Blu-ray is a success because the latest Bond film is in the top 10 at Amazon this week is a bit like saying Betamax was a success because a popular movie that was not available on VHS was a top 10 seller in it's first week of release (at a particular video store). It's a measurement that is so narrow in scope that generalizing a broader trend from it is absolutely pointless.
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Cheaper player will not even help if more titles do not arrive. There have been no new HD-DVD releases since around the 27th of last month, and will not be any until around the same time this month!
Forgot super-hot movies, HD-DVD has trouble just getting any movies - and if sales continue to fall for HD-DVD versios of movies few titles will risk a release on HD-DVD which may not sell very well.
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The BD developers order a ton of each disk the moment it comes out, for testing. Suspect Casino Royale had a problem with BD-J so they wanted to throw as much manpower at it as possible. There are also a lot of copies of Speed being bought, as you can see. The main thing they're working on is BD+. If you see a BD disk spike on your hot list, it's probably a BD+ being bought up for testing.