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Nielson weekly sales - Blu Ray: DVD ratio stands at 12% : 88%

It seems Blu Ray has gained steam from the release of Transformers. Blu-Ray media captured 12% of the market share of discs for the week ending 7th September, 2008.The weekly Blu-Ray sales went up by 16% compared to a 37% fall of DVD discs

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zimbo0075794d ago

Blu ray will never take off???

Blu ray will capture over 25% of market shares when Dark Knight is launched

shadow_hearts5794d ago

I can SENSE THEIR BITTER TEARS

HEARS A TISSUE!!!

Pain5794d ago (Edited 5794d ago )

get this threw your head's Xbots and Blu-ray hatters.

Blu-ray will go down in Price after X-mass because by then all them Movie studios will have made all the $$$$$$ they LOST supporting that DEAD format that there milking Blu-ray for there cash back.

After they make there cash Back BLU-ray will EXPLODE and u fools will just look like the FOOLS u are.

go watch your DVDs and cry.

AngryXbot5794d ago

Look at how quickly the tables have turned, idibots!

Hahaha suck on that please.

cahill5794d ago

i agree with zimbo007 it will have around 30% share when Dark Knight is launched
I havent seen anyone purchasing a DVD player with an HD TV

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cahill5794d ago

Blu RAy will be becoming the DEFACTO standard in a year of 2.
I expect Blu Ray to become the standard by 2009 in europe and Japan

If the US economy resurges then it will become the standard by 2009 too

Genesis55794d ago (Edited 5794d ago )

Yeah sure sounds like a format on deaths door eh! (Canadian sarcasm)

Wait till Christmas when more people get HD TV's it will probably double.

mikeslemonade5794d ago

Cheaper Blu-ray Player $400? Cheapest DVD player $10? Once blu-ray drops in price it's only going to get bigger.

Monchichi0255794d ago

These numbers reflect 1 week in which TRANSFORMERS was released! Transformers is like the wholly grail of HD movies for the majority of people who own BD players. (PS3 owners - males between 15 - 35.

In two weeks or so, numbers will be back to normal.

ukilnme5794d ago

@ mikeslemonade

It does not happen often, but I agree with you on this.

felidae5794d ago (Edited 5794d ago )

lol@TheMART having 1235 points xbox gamerscore ;-)

a "real" gamer ... lolol

edit: i knew he's just a MS tool

Megatron085794d ago

oh ya a whole 12% and ps3 fanboys actually think that means dvds are dead. I and beyond amazed at how stupid the fanboys on this site really are

barom5794d ago

oh I wouldn't expect the EU to get into blu-ray that quick. I was in Norway in the summer and blu-ray wasn't big. I think the prices were twice the price of DVD or close to. Not to mention that the selection was small. They had half a shelf at electronic stores (Spaceworld, Expert) and GameStop.

Their biggest chain Elkjop had a bit larger selection but nothing compared to over here in the US.

eagle215794d ago

Best format ever since Sony and Phillips made the "CD"..... :P

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cahill5794d ago

Blu Ray sales UP 16%
DVD sales down 37%

DVD will be dead by this year or next in NA for sure

TheExodus5794d ago

DVD sales are down 37 percent? Please take another look at the chart.

cahill5794d ago

Blu ray UP 16%
DVD down 37%

DVD is dying a quick death. isnt it?

TANOD5794d ago

SAYS THE STUPID XBOTS HAHAHAAAAAAAAAHHHAHAHHA

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JOLLY15794d ago

nasim is actually replying to himself now. There is something very wrong with this kid.

JOLLY15794d ago

tanod and cahill are both nasim. So he is in fact talking to himself.

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New Ryzen 9 9900X price leak spotted on Amazon Netherlands for $549

Yet another Ryzen 9000-series price leak surfaces, with the latest coming from Amazon NL - where the 9900X has been seen for $549.

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The 'Kawaii' Is A Nintendo Wii The Size Of A Keychain

Modders have cooked up something pretty special – a Wii console which is small enough to fit on your keys. A wee Wii.

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PlayStation 5 PS3 Native Emulation Could Be Held Back by Important Technical Limitations

Due to the Cell processor that powered the system, PlayStation 3 emulation on the PlayStation 5 could be held back by important technical limitations

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TheNamelessOne21d ago

All that processor ever really served was to make game development harder for most people. It's the gift that keeps on giving.

Markdn20d ago

Your right, well up. Till the point they realised how to program it and then it became a monster, they way it off loads tasks to spus and they way it manages this is astounding, I wish they had just upgraded it for ps4 gave it more ram to its disposal as it would truely have been a monster, instead we got an under powered AMD chip and some of the guys here we very disappointed indeed. For a cost point of view it made PS4 more affordable but from a development point of view, we already had the development tools and software

yeahokwhatever20d ago

all that processor did was wipe the floor with its competition. like, badly.

TheNamelessOne20d ago

I remember most 3rd party titles being the runt of the litter when it came to ports that generation.

yeahokwhatever20d ago

EA made a few bad ports in the opening months of the release. compare 1st party titles. go ahead. do it. oh you cant. not even the same league.

Number1TailzFan20d ago

Ignore because they're good at tech/frame rate analysis? K..

1nsomniac20d ago

Ignore because they’re arguably widely recognised as one of, if not the best source in the industry… great logic. Well done.

fsfsxii20d ago

They offer surface level analysis, its like that Tv overlay that displays the framerate, they absolutely have 0 clue with anything development related, or anything behind the scenes, and more often than not, they’re a propaganda machine.

1nsomniac20d ago (Edited 20d ago )

The irony being they clearly do know and they continuously prove that they know.. Relentlessly. If these comments aren’t sarcasm then they’re a sure fire way to make yourself look a bit stupid.

Aggesan20d ago (Edited 20d ago )

I think they're among the best in the business when it comes to frame by frame analysis, but they often speak on topics where they're not more informed than any other interested and passionate amateur. Quite often it's painful watching their show when they state things like facts when they're in fact wrong, and knowing that most of their viewers will assume they're 100% correct about everything they say. I still enjoy them though, especially the retro stuff.

RaidenBlack20d ago

lol, one slightly -ve take from DF and bam! ~ " Ignore "

Huey_My_D_Long20d ago

For those who say DF doesn't know what they are doing...Gotta give us a hard example not a generalized statement.

TheEroica20d ago

Sony beggers raging at DF because Sony can't feed them enough remakes and old generation content to keep them happy. Yikes!

VariantAEC19d ago

DF... the same people convinced PS5 and Xbox Series consoles couldn't do raytracing? The same people who didn't consider PS4 Pro was running AC7 better than Xbox One X due to PS4 Pro's CPU rapid packed math feature while I was telling them to look into it? The same people that are still confused about the PS5's capabilities against XSX's despite all the information being handed to them on a silver platter by Mark Cerny which some smarter gamers with some programming experience have been telling them since the road to PS5 talk was done? Those people?

Yeah, I think I'll continue to pass on any superficial opinion-based observations they make about game developement, too.

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neomahi20d ago

Here they are using NATIVE again like they know what it means, they don't.

meganick20d ago

I’d like to see someone explain why you’re getting downvotes. You’re correct. If software is running on native (original) hardware, then it’s not being emulated. If it is being emulated, then it’s not running on native hardware. “Native emulation” seems to be a bit of an oxymoron.

VariantAEC19d ago

DF doesn't know what "native support" means... it doesn't seem like you know either. Native support can mean emulation, but meaning the original hardware is not required, but it also means no downloads. "Native support" means that nothing additional is required to run the software as intended. You can certainly call a software emulation layer on PS3 for PS1 games native support because it ran software from the disc needing absolutely nothing else to work properly. The PS1 hardware was not on PS3, but the games were still natively supported.

Xbox backward compatibility support is not native, no games run from discs without downloading a repackaged app to run. That is not native support and we all agree DF is blatently lying by suggesting it is.

All consoles run repackaged legacy games this gen, which is exactly why the PS3 is still the gold standard for backward compatibility on consoles to this very day. You would simply pop in any PS1/2 disc and they'd just run without needing anything else from anywhere. Apparently, the newer PS3's (no Emotion Engine) still ran the majority of PS2 games.

meganick19d ago

@VariantAEC

First off, you’re using a different term than me. I was talking about the use of the term “native emulation.” But you’re using the term “native support.” Maybe that’s the same thing. I’m not sure.
So from what I gather, “native emulation” means emulation that doesn’t require a download. In computer terminology, I’ve always thought of “native” as implying original hardware, or at least original components.

Eonjay20d ago

Would really love to play some Infamous and Resistance.

InUrFoxHole20d ago

I never understood the love for resistance... I found it the be mid at best. Infamous 2 was good. Would be great to play killzone again

TheNamelessOne20d ago

Outside of the third game, the series was definitely average.

anast20d ago

The concept was cool. I would day 1 a current gen version of the title.

babadivad20d ago

It's only a matter of time before Xbox has PS3 emulation before Playstation because of them dragging their feet.

Bathyj20d ago

Be nice if they did. Be nice to have a reason to get an Xbox again after all this time .

RaidenBlack20d ago

OP's sarcasm comes from Xbox's superior emulation department ... likely the only efficient department at Xbox

Vits20d ago (Edited 20d ago )

I mean... it's really not that far-fetched. Emulation on the Xbox consoles is miles ahead of the PlayStation consoles. The Switch gets close if you jailbreak it, but it lacks power and the cool part about emulation on Xbox is that you just need a $20 dev account to use those features.

And if anything, the Xbox just doesn't have a PS3, Wii U, and Switch emulator yet because it lacks native support for Vulkan/OpenGL 4.3. The moment someone makes a new wrapper or it gets that compatibility, it will be a matter of weeks for those consoles to be playable on it as well.

babadivad20d ago

rpcs3 already perfectly emulates tons of PS3 games on PC. The Xbox already emulates the PS2 far better than Sony. As for the PS3 emulator, the only thing needed is for someone to create a uwp version of RPCS3 and you'll be good to go. There's already a 360 uwp emulator. I suspect RPCS3 will be ported over before the year is out.

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