Blu-ray Disc sales surpass one million mark

In less than a year, Blu-ray Disc has become the first high definition format to sell more than a million discs, and since the introduction of both high definition formats (the other being HD-DVD) its huge sales volumes have accounted for 70 percent of the high-definition movies sold during the first quarter of 2007, according to sales figures recently published by Home Media Research,.

In 2006, 18 of the top 20 selling DVD's were released by studios which publish their movies on Blu-ray Disc and industry projections suggest that this steady growth trend will continue due to the increasing number of blockbuster movies that are being released exclusively in high-definition on Blu-ray Disc by seven out of the eight major studios.

"Sales of Blu-ray Disc titles have taken off since the first of the year," said Andy Parsons, Chairman of the Blu-ray Disc Association's U.S. Promotion Committee and Senior Vice President of New Product Development at Pioneer Electronics. "Blu-ray Discs have been outselling HD DVD by more than two to one since the beginning of the year and the gap is steadily widening. It's exactly what we've said all along would happen - the strong support for Blu-ray among movie studio and equipment manufacturers means that consumers have more choices when it comes to players and titles. And they're choosing Blu-ray by an ever-increasing margin."

Blu-ray Disc is the next-generation optical disc format developed for high-definition video and high-capacity software applications. A single-layer Blu-ray Disc holds up to 25 gigabytes of data and a double-layer disc can store up to twice as much.

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isnt 1million considered as very low, when Cd's came out they where just as much and they sold EVEN more"

Its a new tech thats more expensive, its a good number. Could be better, but at least theyre beating HD. It just needs time.

when will it become standard, i'l purchase one when it does.

Im so happy for sony, they made the right choice and now hd dvd will be a thing of the past. i doubt ill buy a blue ray player or the films on blueray but still im happy

ooh.. i miss the beta-max days

To be honest, i want blu-ray to do well. Not only is Hewlett Packard a supporter of the format, many other companies are, including Sony- who have put a huge gamble on the format. However, its a good bet to make that if the PS3 does well so will blu-ray (in simple terms, without looking into the statistics and facts). I also like its name, for what its worth ''blu-ray'' sounds better then ''HD-DVD''. Im a supporter of the format and wish it the best So this is clearly good news for ps3 owners, supporters of blu-ray and all those other people who own blu-ray drives.

I wonder how long till the blueray burner will go down in price, but when it does i will buy it, i still think that DVD's and double layers dont hold enough. because like some shows have hundreds of episodes and i want to fit them all into one CD.

And people tried to say the Blu-Ray technology wouldnt catch on because something newer and better was going to come out

Hasnt happened yet =P