The past year has been very eventful for Blu-ray. Many new Blu-ray products have been shown at the International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas this year, where just a year ago Blu-ray jumped ahead of its former rival dvd.cfm" target="_blank">HD DVD. "It turned out to be a phenomenal year for Blu-ray," said Tom Adams of Adams Media Research. In the fourth quarter of 2008, ... [ read the full article ]
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2008 was an important year for BD. It was the end of the HD format wars and a new beginning. The consuming public never likes a format war. As in SD DVD's case there was only one standard, and the consumer adopted quickly.Now with one standard, the consumer can get behind BD without fear of purchasing an orphan . BD offers HD to the consumer, and as it gets more adoptees, prices for both software and hardware continues to decline, as it should.
Sub $200 players were seen for the first time, a first.
The advent of 120Hz refresh rate HD displays and BD offered the consumer a home theater expierence never seen before.
2008 was a stellar year for BD. Let's see what 2009 holds.
This is a kinda no brainer due to the fact that blu-ray won the battle and now its the only format therefore numbers are going to only increase so the only thing we can measure is which blu-ray titles will sell more than others.
This is very funny, when i was buying a lot (2007 and 2008), all i hear is BD is doomed, sale is low. Now, when i'm not buying (trying not to spend more than necessary), BD is taking off, BD is here to stay...
