Blu-ray Update - Wednesday, April 30, 2008

Blu-ray player sales down despite format victory

> The c/net NEWS.com website brings us this report today and it starts off like this... Looks like it wasn't the HD DVD/Blu-ray battle that was keeping potential customers away from high-definition video players after all... The NPD Group released some of its retail sales tracking data Wednesday that showed sales of Blu-ray standalone players (not a PlayStation 3, combo player, or PC with Blu-ray drive) had mostly decreased since the beginning of the year...
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* HD-Report.com has this report out today... Paramount Pictures, who in the Fall of 2007 surprised high-def soothsayers with their announcement to go exclusive with former rival disc format HD DVD, is now getting set to release Blu-ray exclusive titles...
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Paramount readies new Blu-ray titles

* The LATimes.com website has this take and it goes in part like this... UPDATE -- Andy Parsons of Pioneer said his company, which makes premium-priced Blu-ray players, saw "a distinct increase in demand" after HD DVD hit the skids in early January. The implication is that sales would have grown faster if manufacturers hadn't scaled back production in anticipation of the usual post-holiday slow-down...
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