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In Reply to: doesn't that strike you as particularly strange? posted by jeromelang on March 18, 2007 at 04:50:40:
I think blu-ray machines have been shipping in UK for months, and the PS3 is poised for release (the first 500,000 units will be bundled with Casino Royal BD). Also, this was a blockbuster title, one of the biggest theater draws in the past year. No big surprise that it is burning up the sales charts, both in blu-ray and standar DVD, upon its release. There is no conspiracy here.
-------------"I have found that if you love life, life will love you back." -Arthur Rubinstein (1887-1982)
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< < the PS3 is poised for release (the first 500,000 units will be bundled with Casino Royal BD). > >the copies being stock-up for bundling are counted as online sales. what a masterstroke!
I would think Sony Pictures sold the BDs to Sony Electronics at a greatly reduced price for bundling with the PS3. This has nothing to do with Amazon.
-------------"I have found that if you love life, life will love you back." -Arthur Rubinstein (1887-1982)
previously with sacd, one can chalk up hybrid discs, even if one doesn't own a sacd player yet and listen to the dsd'd cd layer on (almost) any cd players. with bd you can't. strictly to work with bd players only, and the current market sentiment with regards to stand alone players is to "..wait and see, who will win this format..." only a very select few like you and me are shelving out hard-earned cash for BD movie discs. with the ps3, they are not even launched yet. the gamers whom the product is targeted towards are not the types likely to order the bd movie disc before getting their hands on the console. most likely culplit that is buying up this movie bd disc is the company that owns the film.
Let's see buy a HD-DVD/DVD combo for $30.00 or buy the standalone DVD for half the price for playback on my DVD player ? And if I had a HD-DVD player, I wouldn't give two hoots about the DVD layer.
What if you have both types of players? What if you want to play it on an HD DVD player in your main viewing room, but also on the DVD player in your bedroom? or in the DVD player in your SUV, for the kids in the back? $30 (usually much cheaper at Amazon)is cheaper than the DVD + a normal HD DVD.
Personally, I agree, and don't care for them, but there are people who really do like them for the reasons mentioned above.
Jack
like Pursuit of Happyness and Rocky Balboa. Granted, those weren't nearly as popular as Casino Royale, but we'll see a similar ratio of BD:DVD sales during the opening week. Obviously there is a growing installed base of BD players and HDTVs. Maybe you're right--that probably can't account for all the sales we are seeing. Maybe collectors don't want to keep adding DVDs to their library because they may think BD has rendered standard DVDs obsolete. To go back to the SACD comparison, I know some people including yours truly who bought a couple single-layer SACDs before buying an SACD player, just to show interest in and support for the format.
-------------"I have found that if you love life, life will love you back." -Arthur Rubinstein (1887-1982)
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