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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."
...the ob Sony bashing posts complaining that it's a failure because it didn't beat the DVD release.
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They left out this part:
"Barely beating BARBIE MAGIC OF THE RAINBOW and EASTER BUNNY ADVENTURE.."
Sony Employee "Sir, I did what you said and bought thousands of blue ray discs from amazon"
Sony Exec (in Mr. Burns Voice) "Excellent"
This is just like when the SNES was ahead of PS3 on amazon right? I really don't think these numbers mean anything
Well, since there are a total of 3 Blu-Ray titles in the top 100, forgive me for seeing this as a desperate pent-up demand for new titles.
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Considering that, at this moment, the Amazon DVD top 100 is composed of 99 DVD (still including Firefly at #81, BTW) and 1 BR.
I think a lot of customers are going to be disappointed when their purchase doesn't play in their dvd player.
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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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If you can't tell me how many of these actualy sold then I am not interested. Was it 40 DVD's for #1 and 10 for #8 which means very little in the end. Or was it 10,000 for #1 and 8000 for number #8 spot. Knowing a standing in a chart means extreamly little unless you can give me the actual numbers sold.
also would like to point out that Blue Ray DVD's are much harder to find compared to standard DVD's that are even for sale in the local 7-11 including Casino Royale. This point could explain why it was bought more on amazon, as I can get the standard DVD any ware, but the blue ray and HD-DVD for that matter, are harder to find so would increase sales on things like amazon easily.
and yes this has been beaten to death point, but again more people have blue ray for the simple fact that its stock in PS3, not because a lot of people have bought specific players. From the numbers there is more stock HD-DVD players sold over stock Blue-Ray players. I just hope Sony realizes they need to avoid the fate of there Beta and actulay allow others to make Blue-Ray players, then they are in a position to actully win out.
Blu-Ray owners are committing suicide by the hundreds on the gates of Baghdad. Be assured, HD-DVD is safe, protected.
My mother things BlueRay is a "new brand of DVD player, right?" I'd hate to be Amazon's customer service department explaining to people that they need to read carefully because the new Bond requires a new gadget to be able to play. Maybe if you beat somebody in a high-stakes poker game you'll be able to afford a BlueRay player... or at least the cable for one, which is a start.
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And at that price, who can afford more than the occasional purchase?
The same people who can afford a PS3 or other device to play them in, and a TV that can take advantage of it?
No, that's Electronic Arts.
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...but.. Blu-Ray isn't DVD. Blu-Ray is Blu-Ray. Just like DVD isn't CD, it's DVD. That's like saying that this USB pen drive is the best CD-ROM format thus far.
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What? The ones being seeded or the ones in queue to download?
Seriously, I don't think porn is an issue these days because you can just download it for free or very easily for a small fee at certain sites.
People don't want to go into shady stores to buy porn if they don't want to.
However, I personally believe digital downloads will defeat both BluRay and HDDVD if given the chance by a major corporation.
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This says nothing about the format and everything about the movie.
woo a popular bond movie making it to the top of the charts on release?! OMG CALL THE PAPERS!!
Quite accurate. I have a blu-ray player (and HD-DVD), and my opinion of blu-ray is that Sony is just pushing releases out without a care on quality - honestly, some blu-ray movies are worse than if the DVD was upconverted (talladega nights anyone? My HD-DVD player did a much better job upconverting the DVD to 1080i than the PS3 did outputting a native 1080p (I have a 1080p TV) - honestly, the blu-ray version looked like someone recorded it to a VCR, then ran some lame upconverter on it, then ran the "blur" filter on it).
The good blu-ray I have is Employee of the Month, which at least looks decent. But I've had sharper images from HD-DVD (Charlie and the Chocolate Factory being particularly sharp). I don't understand it since blu-ray has so much more capacity (50GB vs. 30GB), so HD-DVD should theoretically have worse picture quality, worse extras, worse everything because it's space-constrained.
In the end, I just picked up the cheaper DVD version - there weren't much extras, but I don't have faith in blu-ray transfers (I've got a few blu-rays simply in the search of "high def"). Being two-thirds the price clinched the deal.
(I should note that in Canada, the pricing of the LG "Super Multi Blue" player is more expensive than a PS3 and a regular HD-DVD player (and still pricier if you gave up the HD-DVD standalone player for the Xbox380+HD-DVD drive), yet you get two better players (PS3 can do blu-ray iHD, and a proper HD-DVD player must be able to do iHD) in the bargain. LG's player doesn't do iHD, which is why there's no official HD-DVD *LOGO* on it. Just "HD-DVD" in fancy suggestive type.)
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.
the new james bond film will never be avalable on HD-DVD?
*runs out to get an XBOX360*
It'll be interesting to see what happens when 300 comes out on home formats. That's going to be absolutely huge. I wonder if an HD-DVD exclusive would have the same effect...
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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It seems that most intelligent, tech-savvy slashdotters are predicting HD-DVD will be the winner, since they know more about the subject than the average consumer. So, naturally Blu-Ray will win ;-)
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Let me guess...the Blu-Ray disc is not the one with Woody Allen in it, right?
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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.
But what you'll see if you've been following the comparison trends at:
http://eproductwars.com/dvd/
is that Blu-Ray passed HD-DVD early this year, and the sales gap is generally widening. It's not just a fluke of the Casino Royale release.
Couple this with the anemic release schedule for upcoming HD-DVDs compared to Blu-Ray, and it looks like Blu-Ray is on a pretty solid path to trouncing HD-DVD. I say this as the owner of an HD-DVD XBox addon (but not PS3 or any other Blu-Ray).