Amazon’s best selling title is Blu-ray

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20 Mar 08 11:46 by Seán Byrne in category Uncategorized To news archive

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While the Blu-ray and downloadable HD TV formats still have a long way to go before either take over the DVD market, going by Amazon’s top selling DVDs, the number one selling movie is no longer a DVD, but for the first time, a Blu-ray disc – "I Am Legend". Apparently it reached the #1 spot over the weekend according to this TMR report and is currently still #1 at this time of writing, with the DVD version further down at #9.

At present, there are 11 Blu-ray titles in Amazon’s top 100 selling Movie & TV titles. While the HD disc format war has ended and some stores are now offering store credit or discounts off Blu-ray players for those who return their HD DVD player, this has not stopped consumers from taking advantage of the last titles still available on HD DVD, with 3 HD DVD titles still in Amazon’s top 100.

6 Comments

guest: Posts: 15288; Posted on: 21 Mar 08 01:20

I don't know what surprises me more. That a bluray title is selling better than a DVD title, or that so many people actually want to see willie smith. But seriously (I was serious about first paragraph also), is this for real? The fact that bluray player adoption is far below that of DVD players makes this seem really strange, for a blu title to be #1 sales at amazon movies. What gives?

guest: Posts: 15288; Posted on: 21 Mar 08 01:32

Blu Ray discs are often $10 cheaper at Amazon than at retail while DVDs are comparable when first released. I buy all my Blu Ray online. $34.95 from Target or Best Buy is insane!

Rich86: Posts: 448; Posted on: 21 Mar 08 06:17

And - don't forget - Warner is punishing HD-DVD customers by holding back the release of "I Am Legend" in HD-DVD format for another 3 weeks which just eliminates any high def competition for blu-ray - - for a while anyway. I'm waiting the 3 weeks for the hd-dvd version, thank you. :X
This message was edited at: 21-03-2008 06:17

BitRate: Posts: 410; Posted on: 21 Mar 08 16:11

Blu-ray titles are WAY overpriced. I'm sticking with DVD thank you. Sony can go shove their beta-ray crap where the sun doesn't shine

guest: Posts: 15288; Posted on: 24 Mar 08 01:08

cd freeks are realy likking sonys ***,these days sony don,t even whipe it first go lik cb,f

guest: Posts: 15288; Posted on: 27 Mar 08 14:18

I consider Blu-Ray a typical consumer society gadget. DVD is good enough as it is and I am not willing to throw away my DVD collection of over 1000 titles just to buy a new Blu Ray movies more expensive and with an uncertain future. Let us have a more permanent format and plain DVD is the best and most successful of them all.

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