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And here’s some good news for the Blu-ray Disc format. According to Adams Media Research, U.S. domestic Blu-ray Disc software sales in the first quarter of 2009 were nearly double those for the same period in 2008 - 9 million compared to 4.8 million last year. What’s more, this trend appears despite the ongoing recession and the relatively weak title slate early in the year. Overall rollout for the format is slightly behind DVD due to the recession, but ahead of VHS. It will be very interesting to see what the impact of a lot more sub $150 BD players later this year will be, not to mention the dramatically improved title slate expected to be available by the end of the year. Anyway, you can read more at Video Business and Home Media.
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The Digital Bits: Celebrating Film on Disc - DVD & Blu-ray
I keep hearing tech pundits say that Blu-ray is dead. Then I read this from The Digital Bits and wonder if the tech pundits are prophesizing, or if there’s any evidence to their opinions. Digitsl movie downloads will probably take over, but the internet service needs to drastically improve before that happens, in my opinion.
