You knew it was coming -- it's time to move away from video games and just to video. Specifically, the ongoing next-gen movie formats and how they're going. And they're going... slowly, but that should be expected. Not like the DVD monster is going to disappear for a while. Anywho, here's the highlights, brought to you by Sony and Next-Gen:- Cumulative Blu-ray movie sales to date number over 439,000 while HD-DVD numbers a little under 438,000. It doesn't sound like much, but since Sony is reporting this you have to respect that they aren't exaggerating the numbers. They expect the gap to widen in the coming months.
- The top two Blu-ray titles as of right now are Crank and Gridiron Gang.
- Thanks to the PS3, a Blu-ray movie buying frenzy began in January -- BD titles outsold HD-DVD titles in a 3:1 ratio the first few weeks of January.
- Sony claims 40% market share in the Blu-ray world, thanks mostly to the PS3.
Overall, nothing really new, but affirmation that Blu-ray is beginning to pick up steam. With the European launch so very, very close, not only will that bolster sales, but... come on, the Blu-ray of Casino Royale is coming out around the same time. That's a huge movie, hopefully in Europe as much as it was in the US of A. We still think that would have been a swell bundle package, but whatever.
