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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. The spellcheck milestone? by Timesprout · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Had to be asked.

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  2. Re:No, really by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Have you seen Casino Royale? It's really not that crappy at all.

    With you on Air Force One though...

  3. Re:No, really by Poltras · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    What's wrong with Casino Royale? It was pure genius, from someone who watched the Bond series going down lately.
    Air Force One is another matter, but hey, could've been worse, could have been Air Force Two instead of Casino.

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  4. Re:Shipped? by gmurray · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I'm repeating myself, but I cant find a copy of this anywhere in a 20 mile radius of here. If anyone sees one near bridgewater, nj, could you give me a holler? PS3s I see a few of, this movie on BD nuh-uh. Shelves full of BD and HD-DVD titles (Blu-Ray shelves looking like people have actually been buying things off of them), but an empty space where this should be.

  5. Re:IMO, don't rely on a Playstation to play movies by MS-06FZ · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Yeah I'd say it's FUD because you don't own a PS3 and therefore can't have a valid opinion on the Blu-Ray functionality. My experiences are based on the PS2, another Sony product that doubled as an economy DVD player. I don't think you can totally dismiss that, but at the same time you are correct that I don't have a first-hand testimonial from using the PS3 to supply.

    I do own one and the BR support is second to none. We'll have to see whether that holds up when the QC on the Blu-Ray discs themselves starts to decline. The problem with the PS2 which I described was with DVD releases that presumably contained subtle, minor errors in their encoding, or encoding choices that the PS2 for some reason wasn't able to handle - things that better players were capable of dealing with. That kind of case is where you start to separate good players from mediocre players. At this point, I don't think a lot of badly-encoded Blu-Ray discs even exist.

    In the mean time, however, testimonials like yours may be more reliable than ones like mine, when dealing with the PS3.
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