I am new to this site. Is Mike a Blu-ray fanboy? Why is he spitting lies around?

We’ll also see two more spikes (Batman TDK & Wanted) this year.

3 better selling movies.

It’s not much to be bragging about.

Then there’s the 20 million sold to date number.

Presumably this is USA only.

Well, DVD sells 1.7+ billion units p.a.

So, 20 million is just over 1%.

Again, it’s nothing to be getting very excited about – in fact considering how many PS3s there are in circulation and how they were supposed to bring big sales numbers it’s downright pathetic, in fact.

No wonder Warner are now – and note this is very publicly – saying it’s all under review & reconsideration.

On the 20th Nov (so, a point at which they know all about Iron Man sales & batman/Wanted pre-orders) they are reported in the NYT as saying -

“We think this is a do-or-die time for Blu-ray,” said Ron Sanders, president of Warner Home Video. “We must get it established as a favorite holiday item.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/21/business/21dvd.html?_r=2&hp

If all this stuff’s meant to show Blu-ray doing well then someone needs a long vacation at the funny farm.

We’ve yet to see the coming recession bite hard (and by most estimates for at least all of next year).
US retail sales, confidence and unemployment numbers are at various lows and highs (the bad way around).

Personally I give Blu-ray 6mths to start showing the major studios backing away leaving the Sony clique selling ever more idiotic shallow sh!te to the PS3 demographic.

There will be similar sales in December for “The Dark Knight”, but high sales of two individual titles doesn’t bode well for the overall success of the format.