Re: Blu-ray Numbers Too Low To Release

In article <_bqSj.107428$Cj7.36554@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>, Bond Is Gay says...
> If you thought the death of HD DVD would help Blu-ray, you'd be wrong.
Sales 
> of stand alone players fell 40% at the beginning of the year, recovered
2% 
> of that and has remained so low that NPD will not release actual numbers

> Ouch. In fact, sales of Blu-ray standalone players remain so low that
NPD 
> has not yet released actual numbers, for fear that it would be easy to 
> identify individual retailers. The research group will start to give
actual 
> figures later this year, said Ross Rubin, director of industry analysis
at 
> NPD.
> 
>
http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/04/30/blu-ray-the-future-has-been-delayed/

> 
The only problem is that they're not including the sales of PS3's which 
skews it quite dramatically as there are plenty of people who buy a PS3 
to use as a Media Center/Bl-Ray player because they're cheaper than 
many standalones and can easily do firmware upgrades.


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