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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. Whole numbers? by LoudMusic · · Score: 0, Redundant

    It's nearly ten years later. There are so many more people on the planet than there were ten years ago. Blu-Ray reached the same whole number in ~82% of the time DVD did, but nine years later, so I figure that makes up the difference. Looks like it's about on par with DVD to me. I wonder how VHS did back in its day.

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