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Blu-ray Hits Key Milestone Faster than Standard-Def

Posted by Zonk on from the bond-blu-bond dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Slashdot has already reported on the go-go sales for the 'Casino Royale' Blu-ray on Amazon, but now comes news that the same Blu-ray disc is the first high-def disc to ship 100,000 units within the United States. It took standard-def DVD eleven months to reach that retail milestone (in 1998 with 'Air Force One'), but with 'Royale,' the nine-month old Blu-ray format now has done it two months faster."

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  1. Re:Faster? by morgan_greywolf · · Score: 4, Funny

    Well, it's 2 months faster -- 11 months - 2 months = 9 months or almost 20% faster.

    Wait, my keyboard is being taken ove----

    Great! So now we can say that Blu-Ray hit the 100,000 unit milestone at almost twice the rate of population growth since 1998! Thanks, Intron!
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  2. Re:Actually it was even faster by Mattwolf7 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Actually probably not, if you haven't heard PS3's aren't selling

  3. Shipped? by loafing_oaf · · Score: 2, Funny

    Yeah, I'll bet that all those shipped Blu-ray discs are sitting at hundreds of Best Buy stores, right next to the towers of Playstation 3 systems.

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  4. Re:Shipped or sold? by heinousjay · · Score: 2, Funny

    Out of curiosity, what is your console of choice? I have to assume PS3, since you brought in accusations of being a 360 fanboy without there even being the slightest implication in the OP of any kind of fanboyism. I'm dying to know: what makes you guys so defensive?

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  5. Re:How long before they relieve us of the old form by hador_nyc · · Score: 2, Funny

    yeah, and you kids get off the grass too!

    sorry couldn't help myself... :)

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  6. That's because by A_Non_Moose · · Score: 2, Funny

    there are no blueray hddvd usenet gr... (user is duct taped to chair and muzzled by greybeards)#*&^$)No Carrier.

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