Blu-ray Hits Key Milestone Faster than Standard-Def

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."

Comments

The spellcheck milestone?

[Timesprout]

Had to be asked.

Re:No, really

[Anonymous Coward]

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

With you on Air Force One though...

Re:No, really

[Poltras]

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.

Re:Shipped or sold?

[Mark Gillespie]

Only a Microsoft Xbox programmed fanboy would care.. It's worth noting that Microsoft only quote shipped numbers for 360 sales, which is why there is a difference of a million units between what Microsoft say (10.5) and what retail counts say (9.5)..

all stories are now permanently on pending ..

[rs232]

From: emacsuser
To: Rob Malda
Subject: posts stuck in pending ..
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To: emacsuser
From: "Rob Malda"
Subject: Re: posts stuck in pending ..

'all stories are now basically permanently on 'pending'. they are
forever available for other users to inspect...'
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From: emacsuser
To: Rob Malda
Subject: posts stuck in pending ..'

'Like for instance where are Zonks or kdawsons pending recent
submissions that I can inspect ..',
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To: emacsuser
From: "Rob Malda"
Subject: Re: posts stuck in pending ..

'yeah we'll work on fixing it... but we've totally rebuilt the
submissions code & process, so its a bit off for now'
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Re:Shipped?

[gmurray]

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.

Re:IMO, don't rely on a Playstation to play movies

[MS-06FZ]

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.