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Blu-ray disc sales pass one million sold milestone

By Justin Mann

On April 24, 2007, 12:58 PM

The Blu-ray camp is celebrating a small milestone, with their announcement of Blu-ray disc sales surpassing one million units. While HD D VD beat them to 100,000 standalone players sold (a drop in the bucket, really), they are the first of the new formats to have this many discs sold. According to the Blu-ray Disc Association they are outselling the competition by a noticeable margin:

“Blu-ray Discs have been outselling HD DVD by more than two to one since the beginning of the year and the gap is steadily widening. It’s exactly what we’ve said all along would happen - the strong support for Blu-ray among movie studio and equipment manufacturers means that consumers have more choices when it comes to players and titles. And they’re choosing Blu-ray by an ever-increasing margin.”
Surely that must be taken with a grain of salt, and the real proof will come when multi-format players and burners are readily available.

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  1. April 24, 2007 7:47 PM
    howzz1854 said:
    "the strong support for Blu-ray among movie studio and equipment manufacturers means that consumers have more choices when it comes to players and titles."this statement makes me laugh. if it's more choice they wanna give to the consumers, they wouldn't lobby all the studios to support one format and single out the other. that's not choice, that's called holding you by your arms to buy into something they want you to. which is heavily infested with DRM.
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