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Blu-ray Disc titles are now selling for less than the cost of a single movie ticket. Amazon is offering hundreds of Blu-ray titles at half their normal prices for the next two weeks, with some going for as little as $10. With Blu-ray adoption expected to explode in 2009 (for hardware advice, [...]

Washington, D.C. (February 5, 2009) — Research firm SNL Kagan said yesterday that the Blu-ray high-def disc will capture a 60 percent market share of home video sales by 2014.
The company added that the high-def format will take a whopping 74 percent market share by 2017.
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A year since HD DVD conceded defeat at last CES, Blu-Ray and its backers will be touting their so-called success at this year’s CES, but the reality is far from it. As numbers point out, very few consumers know about Blu-Ray, and those who do still do not see enough value for [...]

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High-Definition TVs are now in more than 30 million U.S. homes and that number continues to rise. This makes the high-def audience a prime target for HD-related companies.
And when businesses are in highly competitive category, such as high-def, they will tend to be more aggressive in marketing campaigns designed to win over [...]

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A top Sony executive is suggesting that the high price of Blu-ray high-def discs is slowing consumer acceptance of the new home video format.
In an interview with Reuters, Stan Glasgow, president of Sony Electronics, said Blu-ray player sales will likely fall short of forecasts this year. While many analysts have said dropping [...]

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The number is expected to break a format record.
Warner Bros. is expected to ship a record one million Blu-ray copies of The Dark Knight to retail stores for its release on December 9.
That’s according to an article by Video Business.
Paramount Studios reported in October that Iron Man, the Robert Downey action hit, [...]

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Included with many Blu-ray releases is a small slip of paper which contains a warning that the disc may not play in your player unless your player has its latest firmware upgrade. It suggests that you visit http://www.blu-raydisc.com/forbestresults which contains a listing of all the various Blu-ray players and links to the [...]

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Shortly after the release of Iron Man on Blu-ray on October 1, people started complaining of defective discs. The problem turned out to be that all the Blu-ray players downloading additional content brought down Paramount’s BD-Live servers, causing delays while loading the disc. Which really makes you wonder what will happen when [...]

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More than six months after HD-DVD gave up the format war, there are several signs that Sony’s rival Blu-ray format is struggling to gain consumer acceptance. According to recent sales data from Nielsen, market share for Blu-ray discs in the U.S. is declining, and Sony and its Blu-ray partners are trying several [...]

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By Warner Home Video

A Cinerama shot from How the West Was Won

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Home theater buffs can resurrect a groundbreaking Cold War-era film format in their homes this week with the new Blu-ray Disc version of How the West Was Won, out today [...]