Blu-ray Sells over $330m in Q1 2010

According to aggregate weekly estimates from the research department of Home Media Magazine and listed each week on blu-ray.com's sales information posts, revenues from BD sales in the US in the first quarter of 2010 were $331.31 million, 68.5% more than in the same period of 2009. Blu-ray accounted for 12.3% of packaged-media sales revenue in the first three months of the year (versus 7.0% in Jan-Mar 2009).

[Abash]

"Revenues from BD sales in the US in the first quarter of 2010 were $331.31 million, 68.5% more than in the same period of 2009."

Nice to see Blu-Ray picking up steam more and more each year

[Chaostar]

Yes well done to Blu-ray who had my support from the very beggining, if only because I already had a PS3 and didnt wanna shell out for another player ;P

Seriously though those figures are impressive, also with the launch of 3D blu-ray just around the corner and every major new release supporting the format they can only get better.

[Parapraxis]

This proves without a doubt that those who claim Blu-ray is a failing format haven't got the slightest idea what they are talking about.

[RageAgainstTheMShine]

... because they are banned from the Blu-ray Association.

[iwillpwnyou]

This is just the beginning...

[rambi80]

Don't worry guys - you can always switch to bashing the PSPgo
Keep those chins up!!!

[sikbeta]

Awesome Numbers, Great to see More and More People supporting Blu-Ray and I feel Sorry for the Doubters, They couldn't be More Wrong...

[MmaFanQc]

did they lied to me?

[darthv72]

This is due to the deals of the bluray/dvd combos that are becoming more common. A real deal from the perspective of a household that watches both. I like being able to watch the HD version on the big screen and then let the kids take the dvd version in their room or even the digital copy on the go.

This is how you get your format adopted. Cater to the whole crowd in one nicely priced package. When it was just blu or dvd I would get the dvd every time. To many dvd players to limit viewing to just a single room/player.

Blu/dvd combo ftw!

edit: I been seeing commercials for LotR trilogy on blu this tuesday (tomorrow).

[kalebgray92]

blu ray will die..... stfu.... every website and person that said that years ago just got farted in their face

[ThatCanadianGuy]

Lord of the Rings trilogy tomorrow on Blu-Ray..
Whew! That's gonna keep the money ball rolling.

[MAR-TYR-DOM]

Blu Ray is finally starting come into its own, and now ppl are talking about 3D? GTFO! I just bought my tv and home theatre system, im not gonna care about 3D for the next 5 years!

[graciousd]

think about some people saying that BR is dead and it's a failure to introduce BR into the market.

[DarkBlood]

makes me glad to own a ps3, cant wait to get rid of my dvd collection inexchange for the bluray versions

BLURAY FTW

[JRisburning]

I own about 6 Blu-Ray movies....a VERy small collection, but it will continue to grow. Glad its picking up some steam.

[Dance]

Compared to DVD and VHS it is and with digital distribution on the rise thing are going to get worse

[guerojose]

^^^ Hahaha! We've got a live one, folks. There are still a few out there. Still trying to find a way to twist the numbers, explain away massive growth, and shout dire predictions of the DD future.

[mrv321]

You sound like a HD-DVD owner... how did that work out for you again?

Seriously VHS is dead, DVD is still going and Digital doesn't provide the quality. Blu-ray is it's own market of the full 1080p 7.1 film experience and let's not all forget 3D blu-ray.

[weazel]

Woah - sparkly insights there Dance. Can you please link to life-cycle adoption, market saturation, and multi-format product data to provide conclusive evidence that your statements aren't actually the vapid fud that I suspect that they might be. (I thought that 1n 1998 DVD sales reached $259 million for the year.(The whole year!)) Obviously this was at the start of the upswing / mass-adoption of the format, but following the clouds settling on the great hd-dvd smackdown, there only seems to be one clear hard format of choice.)

[RageAgainstTheMShine]

The Blu-ray Disc Association

The current 20 board members

* Apple Inc.
* Dell Inc.
* Hewlett-Packard
* Hitachi, Ltd.
* Intel Corporation
* LG Electronics
* Mitsubishi Electric
* Panasonic Corporation
* Pioneer Corporation
* Royal Philips Electronics
* Samsung Electronics
* Sharp Corporation
* Sony Corporation
* Sun Microsystems
* TDK Corporation
* Thomson SA
* 20th Century Fox
* Walt Disney Motion Pictures Group
* Warner Bros. Entertainment

The contributors as of June 2009 are:
* Acer Inc.
* Advanced Micro Devices (AMD)
* Almedio Inc.
* Alticast
* ArcSoft
* AudioDev AB
* BluFocus Inc.
* Broadcom Corporation
* Canon Inc.
* CESI Technology Co. Ltd.
* China Hualu Group Co., Ltd.
* CMC Magnetics Corporation
* Corel Corporation
* Cryptography Research Inc.
* CyberLink
* DCA Inc.
* Deluxe Digital Studios, Inc.
* Dolby Laboratories Inc.
* Dreamer Co., Ltd.
* DTS, Inc.
* Eclipse Data Technologies
* Fraunhofer IIS
* Fujifilm
* Fujitsu Ltd.
* Funai Electric Co., Ltd.
* Gibson Guitar Corporation
* Industrial Technology Research Institute
* Lionsgate Entertainment
* LITE-ON IT Corporation
* Macrovision Corp.
* Marvell International Ltd.
* MediaTek Inc
* Meridian Audio, Ltd.
* Mitsubishi Kagaku Media Co.Ltd.
* Monster Cable Products
* Moser Baer India Limited
* NEC Electronics Corporation
* Nero AG
* nVidia Corporation
* Osmosys SA
* Paramount Pictures Corporation
* Pulstec Industrial Co., Ltd.
* RealD
* Ritek
* Sensio Technologies Inc.
* ShibaSoku Co. Ltd.
* Sigma Designs
* Singulus Technologies
* Sonic Solutions
* ST Microelectronics
* Sunext
* Taiyo Yuden Co., Ltd.,
* Testronic Laboratories, Inc.
* Universal Studios Home Entertainment
* Victor Company of Japan, Ltd. (JVC)
* Visionare Corporation
* Warner Music Group
* Zoran Corporation

please feel free to defend your down loadable babble to these guys ^_^

[thor]

The whole point of blu-ray is to get higher quality movies. You're suggesting that digital downloads, which offer LOWER quality, are going to supplant blu-ray? To have the same quality as blu-ray, a downloaded movie must NECESSARILY take up 25GB of space. Most connections still aren't good enough to be able to download that amount of data in a reasonable amount of time. Heck, most providers are now enforcing bandwidth caps of 10GB per month.

[cardgenius]

Digital Distribution? Really?

http://www.blu-ray.com/news...

Yeah, thats what I thought.

[dredgewalker]

You should change your name to "Dunce" cause it suits you much better.

[Brklynty1]

Comapred to DVD and VHS? Well I can see why your stuck on old technology after all your precious console is as well. And DD? Lmfao! Dude that's for music and music only. Just admit it, BLU-RAY wtfpwns DVD! Seriously you don't hear mothers asking their kids if they want their Kung-Fu Panda to be on DVD or VHS. Just GTFO. You fail, HD-DVD fails, and M$ fails and for everyone that doubted Blu-Ray, you fail as well.

[The Wood]

"Dunce" ...lmao

[theEnemy]

this is BS.

blu-ray is a dying format.

it is a bag of hurt.

digital distribution ftw!

dvd is still enough!

lawl.

[Ravage27]

3D will give it a big push next year

[user858621]

70 Blu-Rays and still growing :P

[36T]

Like i thought. It's all the Playstation douchbags buying movies to justify the purchase of their over expensive bluray player that can also be used as a gaming console.

[zag]

Not really it's the actual fact that 2010 marks the death of DVD.

The move companies aren't interested in making DVD releases anymore, with in 2-3 years blu-ray will be the only format you can buy movies on.

[Sir_Ken_Kutaragi_]

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[user858621]

DAMN RYT! 1080p FTW!! xD

[RagTagBnd445]

Blu-ray's are the future, without doubt, i think that in 5 years, the dvd will have the status as the VHS has now.

[cardgenius]

Yep.....its only a matter of time before DVD starts going the way of VHS.

[AKS]

As I've said many times, the adoption of Blu-ray will continue to grow as people replace their old SDTVs with HDTVs. There are a lot more HDTVs in people's homes now, and when TV stations all eventually go HD, that will have a huge impact on the sales of HD content.

[amobius]

just makes me remember when people were saying blu-ray was going to fail, boy were they wrong

[RH06]

Hmm, I have added to those numbers so far this year! So many great movies to buy these days, (Toy Story 1&2-Which for 1995+ looks better than most Blurays!) Just wish more of my purchases had the combo pack like some studio's are doing...(Disney,Fox ect.) I feel more justified buying a movie with both the Bluray and the DVD for $30 or under, so I can watch 1080p while the kids can watch the DVD in their room.

[piroh]

[Silly Mammo]

Blu-ray is on a roll! Sub-$100 Blu-ray players, LotR out tomorrow, Avatar on the 22nd and Saving Private Ryan in early May. The people on the fence and going to be hard pressed to come up with reasons not to take the plunge.

[theunleashed64]

unlike you he ain't jerking off at that milo tech demo from fatal 24/7

[bviperz]

But I ran with it because the PS3 was a bigger investment over an HD-DVD add-on. Again Sony pays off for me in the long run.

[stonecold1]

12o blu rays and ibuy mainly on blu ray will never go back to dvd again once you go blu you dont look back at dvd