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'Dark Knight' sets new Blu-ray sales record
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article published on 13 December, 2008
The blockbuster smash The Dark Knight has set a new Blu-ray sales record, selling 600,000 copies in the US on its first day of release. According to Warner Home Video, Blu-ray sales accounted for over 21 percent of the total units sold.
Warner President Ron Sanders believes the movie will hit 1 million Blu-ray copies sold in its first week, a milestone for the format.
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Toshibot
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16. December 2008 @ 19:13 |
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Originally posted by Interestx:
Well I guess that depends who you read and whether they are talking about 1 day sales or not.
If you believe the 3 million day 1 DVD sales then Finding Nemo has it beaten by a mile:
http://www.the-numbers.com/movies/2003/FNEMO.php
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Finding Nemo
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First day DVD sales: 8,000,000
DVD Sales (Single day, November 4, 2003): 6.4 million
US DVD Release: November 4, 2003
TDK on DVD did not set a record.
TDK on BluRay did.
This message has been edited since posting. Last time this message was edited on 17. December 2008 @ 08:51
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16. December 2008 @ 21:00 |
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Originally posted by wolf123:
Just too know the movie was a little long and not that great.
its a 3 out of 5 movie
I completely agree. Definitely 3 out of 5 stars, at best. Batman's voice was terrible! The movie was very slow, to long and not that great.
The only reason this movie set records was because of Heath Ledger.
I totally agree the fact that the last one was soo terrible, any thing new would be better, and Heath's death helped sell this movie. Basically people must like the crap that Hollywierd puts out you say Tranformers had great numbers and that was a horrible movie half way through it I had to turn it off and I really wanted to shut it down well before that but thought it had to get better, wrong!
I bought the BD of TDK and enjoyed it but again it doesn't rate high in my book. If you were to download the two main M2TS files it would be 32.6 GB + 4.95 GB's (00007.m2ts & 00008.m2ts) approx. 37.5 GB total uncompressed.
I haven't tried ripping it yet but thought that AnyDVD wasn't able to break the DRM on this one is that wrong? Must be if people are posting the HD version on the net.
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16. December 2008 @ 21:31 |
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That's about what I was going to say.. they also seem to have 0 (zero) resale value.. nobody will touch used for some reason but will buy ex rental dvd.. interesting
Originally posted by ads:
1 To run a 1080p video doesnt take much of a pc to do.. To do a blue ray movie from a blue ray player takes a ton more.. I have a blue ray burner and rip movies off it and it will still play full quallity on my other compter which is my media computer But not when i use the blue ray player i have to use the ripped version and it the same quality
2 avi files on a tv look bad... when it gets to 40 -60 size it looks really bad..
3 Its super easy to hook a computer to a tv its like pluging in a moniter o wait newer tvs are like big moniters in that way...
4 Alot of people are dumb when it comes to teconlagy I sell computer stuff and hometheater equipment and most people cant even plug it in and have no idea were to start ...
1 = fair enough.. I can't see any difference either.. 1080p is 1080p .. I think the struggle with the disks is to do with the extra decoding of all the encryption and constant checking for the right wires and looking to see if somebody has a HD camcorder pointing at the screen that does it.
2 = depends on the avi file and how well it was ripped/encoded in the first place
3 = like we don't know?
4 = I doubt it or you would know how to spell words like technology correctly (or know that browsers have spellcheckers) XD
bitchy.. time for meds :)
So typical of you VarNull please list all of these internet browsers that have spell checking in them because IE7, Orca, Avant, Firefox all do not have spell checkers.
And as to people being able to hook up simple audio gear I would have to agree with the gentlemen that the average person has great difficulty with that task. Just because you are super musician and have to know this doesn?t mean the average Joe does.
Most AVI?s I see or get are poorly ripped so again his statement hold water, yes you could have a decent quality AVI but I think there pretty rare and compared to AVCHD I would go with the HD resolution.
His spelling isn?t the best but at least you can read it and it does make some sense.
Good try
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17. December 2008 @ 08:28 |
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ematrix
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17. December 2008 @ 11:51 |
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I agree with Interestx, as I mentioned the same about Iron Man months ago; if we could look at actual total unit sales numbers after the 3, 6, 9 or 12 month point, anyone would see that DVD sales numbers would still continue to grow at a more stable pace, since sells best after a couple of months & prices drop, while Blu-ray sells it's best and reaches it's peak at launch day, from there it's all downhill, because we have seen it with past releases, that Blu-ray is more about the hype of must be first to own it, that people rushed to the stores on day 1 to buy it.
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17. December 2008 @ 12:40 |
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The majority of sales came from US buyers, which bought over 1 Million units of the title. Blu-ray sales represented nearly 13% of all home media sales for the title, which sold 13.5 Million units on home video formats.
In comparison, 'The Matrix' DVD release in 1999 - which is generally recognized as the title to spark sales of the format - sold 780,000 units in one week. The Blu-ray release of 'The Dark Knight' has more than doubled that accomplishment.
Nothing more to say.
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17. December 2008 @ 19:12 |
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Originally posted by Oner:
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The majority of sales came from US buyers, which bought over 1 Million units of the title. Blu-ray sales represented nearly 13% of all home media sales for the title, which sold 13.5 Million units on home video formats.
In comparison, 'The Matrix' DVD release in 1999 - which is generally recognized as the title to spark sales of the format - sold 780,000 units in one week. The Blu-ray release of 'The Dark Knight' has more than doubled that accomplishment.
Nothing more to say.
Good find Oner.
When The Matrix came out on DVD in 1999 and sold 780K units in one week it marked the "arrival" of the format.
This marks the "arrival" of BluRay with its 1.7 million worldwide first week sales.
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18. December 2008 @ 15:07 |
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I agree with those saying Batmans voice was far too strange and deep in the Dark Knight but get lost when they say the movie wasnt good at all. It only sold because of Heath Ledgers death, that is madness. TDK was by far the best batman movie ever acting,plot, action and otherwise.
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2. January 2009 @ 02:58 |
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WOW, 600K in one day... just imagine how low the sales would be if there was a credible rip out there in torrwent land (that was a typo, but I like how torrwent sounds, a movie that WENT to torrent)
But wait, aXXo, probably the most famous ripper in torrwent land, does have a release out there.... with almost 15000 peers (seeds+leaches)
or for every torrent built or being built there were 40 sales on first day
so I suppose the Movie MAAfia is going to claim they would have sold 6 million without Torrwent land's participation
I venture that they wouldn't have sold 100k if the torrent didn't have anyone downloading. torrents are not the bane of movies, it it the new gauge of the movie's popularity... mostly by people that would never buy in the first place but also others, like me, who preview via torrents to decide where to spend their precious entertainment budget... since an opened movie is not returnable (a policy I agree with) there needs to be a way to be sure one wants to add a movie to their collection (over 100 for me, DVD and VHS)
and as prices have come down, the last three months I have bought a record number of DVD's as well as viewed a record number of torrwent land previews
Dark Knight? no, neither bought nor previewed... I don't get entertained by sinister themes so I know if I preview I won't want to buy... so no need to preview
but I have heard the raves of how "wonderful" the movie is, so the sales only proves what has been said via the scene, "in general, movies being produced SUX... but produce a good one and the sales will reflect the quality of the movie"
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2. January 2009 @ 03:07 |
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So typical of you VarNull please list all of these internet browsers that have spell checking in them because IE7, Orca, Avant, Firefox all do not have spell checkers.
try installing the Google toolbar, IE6 and Firefox both have spell check for me... and firefox has lots of plugins for specialized activities so even if you don't like the toolbar you can still get spell checkers
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