Blu-ray Disc Among Top Selling DVDs at Amazon 280
An anonymous reader writes "In a milestone for the next-gen disc format, the Blu-ray edition of 'Casino Royale' cracked the top ten on Amazon's DVD top sellers list upon its release Tuesday, peaking late in the evening at #8. Of course, the two-disc standard-def DVD still topped the chart at #1, but a strong showing for Blu-ray regardless."
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Re:finally! (Score:1, Interesting)
Hard to deny this as evidence. While the war is far from over, Sony has effectively flanked HD-DVD by equiping it as standard on the PS3 (I know everyone else claims they are sitting on store shelves, but I've yet to see one), plus they've learned one lesson from the Beta days, Blu-Ray has more capacity than the competition this time.
PS3 (Score:4, Interesting)
Re:top ten (Score:5, Interesting)
This format war may well be decided by titles rather than player sales.
I still think HD-DVD has the best chance if they can make the hybrid disks (HD-DVD that will play in DVD players) a big enough deal to get the major publishers to completely switch to them on new releases.
Re:PS3 (Score:2, Interesting)
The porn industry has already gone with HD-DVD so I think that clearly tells us where everything else is going. Either that or any decent player will support both and we'll just have two standards that are equally available and distributed.
Re:3 Titles in top 100 (Score:2, Interesting)
If Casino Royale had been released on HD-DVD I would have been the first in-line.
I just hope "someone" wins the highdef war so we don't end up in the DVD-A/SACD situation where both formats appear to have lost.
Re:Are you kidding? (Score:3, Interesting)
But just about every review of the PS3 you can read, including this one, says that the Xbox 360 is the next generation shitty-PS2-esque DVD player. The picture is grainy and ugly. Sony seems to have learned from their mistake on this one, the PS3 is just about the best non-upconverting DVD player I've ever seen, and I've owned a few.
Re:Price comparison: $15.99 vs $27.99 (Score:4, Interesting)
Seriously, for someone with a large HDTV, Blu-ray turns movis from a grainy experience with mediocre sound and washed out colors into a theater-quality experience. If your TV is larger than 40", 16:9(or 10) aspect, a high-def source is pretty much necessary to lot look blurry and grainy.
I don't own many Blu-ray discs, but I do own a few, and they are awesome to behold.
HD-DVD is failing fast (Score:5, Interesting)
I see ads on TV for the blu-ray format and blu-ray discs every day now (almost at every commercial break when I'm watching HDNET and other HD channels). I have YET to see a single ad for HD-DVD or an HD-DVD release. Not one.
Blu-ray is beginning to make some name recognition headway. No one even knows HD-DVD exists. Blu-ray is getting new releases all the time. HD-DVD new releases have dried up to almost nothing.
-Eric
Re:Message to HD DVD Camp (Score:3, Interesting)
Okay, okay. Blu-Ray isn't the next Beta.
It's the next DVD-Audio, and HD-DVD is the next SACD.
Neither of which has yet managed to convinced the majority of the market to give up the 25-plus-year-old CD format.
Inaccurate Analogies (Score:3, Interesting)
Perhaps, but saying Blu-ray is a success because the latest Bond film is in the top 10 at Amazon this week is a bit like saying Betamax was a success because a popular movie that was not available on VHS was a top 10 seller in it's first week of release (at a particular video store). It's a measurement that is so narrow in scope that generalizing a broader trend from it is absolutely pointless.
No HD-DVD releases almost the whole month (Score:3, Interesting)
Forgot super-hot movies, HD-DVD has trouble just getting any movies - and if sales continue to fall for HD-DVD versios of movies few titles will risk a release on HD-DVD which may not sell very well.
BD developers strike again (Score:3, Interesting)