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HBO is Thriving on DVD and Blu-ray While Others Fail
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Disc Sales: 'Dark Knight' Blu-ray Breaks 1M First-Week Barrier
Posted Wed Dec 17, 2008 at 12:00 PM PST by Peter Bracke'The Dark Knight' shattered all previous high-def sales records in its first seven days in stores, setting a new opening-week benchmark for Warner with over one million Blu-ray units sold.
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Disc Sales: 'Dark Knight' Set to Smash Blu-ray Shipping Record
Posted Mon Nov 10, 2008 at 10:00 AM PST by Peter BrackeThe blockbuster 'The Dark Knight' can add another notch to its list of achievements: high-def record-breaker.
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Report: Blu-ray Disc Sales Impacting DVD
Posted Fri Mar 28, 2008 at 12:00 PM PDT by Peter BrackeThanks to the demise of HD DVD and increased Blu-ray retail momentum, next-gen disc sales are starting to carve out a bigger slice of the home video pie, a new report suggests.
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Disc Sales: 'No Country' Pushes Blu-ray Past 9M Mark
Posted Thu Mar 27, 2008 at 08:00 AM PDT by Peter BrackePropelled by strong sales of 'No Country for Old Men,' total U.S. Blu-ray software sales since inception have now topped 9 million through the week ending March 16.
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'American Gangster' HD DVD Tops VideoScan's Weekly High-Def Disc Sales Chart
Posted Fri Feb 29, 2008 at 01:00 PM PST byBlu-ray may have officially won the high-def format war last week, but in a strange twist, the top selling high-def disc of the week was an HD DVD release.
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Blu-ray Dominates Disc Sales Chart Post-Warner Announcement
Posted Thu Jan 17, 2008 at 12:00 PM PST byThe Blu-ray camp took a decisive lead in disc sales for the week ending January 13th, the first full week following Warner's announcement that it would abandon its HD DVD support.
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Disc Sales: 'Pirates' Leads Blu-ray to Decisive Weekly Win Over HD DVD
Posted Fri Dec 14, 2007 at 11:30 AM PST byPropelled by strong sales of 'Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End,' Blu-ray software sales topped HD DVD by more than a 3:1 margin for the week ending December 9, 2007.
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Report: 'Pirates' Blu-ray Sales Top 160k Units
Posted Thu Dec 13, 2007 at 06:00 AM PST byFirst week sales for the Blu-ray edition of 'Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End' are shaping up to be a record-breaker for the Blu-ray format.
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VideoScan: Blu-ray Commands Thanksgiving Week Disc Sales
Posted Thu Nov 29, 2007 at 06:00 AM PST byBlack Friday? More like Blu Friday. According to Nielsen VideoScan, US sales of Blu-ray discs swelled to a nearly 3:1 lead over HD DVD in the first official week of the holiday shopping season.
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BDA: European Blu-ray Disc Sales Top One Million
Posted Wed Nov 28, 2007 at 06:00 AM PST byBlu-ray disc sales have taken a commanding lead across the pond, where the Blu-ray Disc Association announced Tuesday that over one million Blu-ray discs have been sold in Europe alone.
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Disc Sales: 'Spider-Man 3' Spins Record First Week for Sony
Posted Thu Nov 8, 2007 at 06:00 AM PST by'Spider-Man 3' came out swinging in its first six days in stores, setting a new opening-week record for Sony with over 130,000 Blu-ray units sold, according to studio estimates.
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Controversy Swirls Around 'Transformers' HD DVD Sales Numbers
Posted Mon Oct 29, 2007 at 10:37 AM PDT byIs Paramount's HD DVD release of 'The Transformers' in fact the fastest selling next-gen title ever? It depends on who you believe.
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Disc Sales: Blu-ray Squeaks Weekly Win Against 'Transformers' HD DVD
Posted Thu Oct 25, 2007 at 11:21 PM PDT byHome Media Magazine is reporting a narrow Blu-ray disc sales victory for the week ending Oct 21, disputing Paramount's previously released sales numbers for HD DVD edition of 'The Transformers.'
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Blu-ray Disc Sales Lead HD DVD by Nearly 2:1 YTD; Q4 Crucial For HD DVD
Posted Wed Oct 24, 2007 at 10:35 AM PDT byBlu-ray disc sales exceeded those of HD DVD by a wide margin for the third quarter in a row, setting the stage for a crucial Q4 sales showdown.
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'Transformers' HD DVD Smashes First-Week Sales Records
Posted Mon Oct 22, 2007 at 02:27 PM PDT byParamount says first-week sales numbers for its HD DVD release of 'Transformers' top those of any other high-def disc released on either next gen format to date.
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Sony: Domestic Blu-ray Disc Sales Nearing One Million Mark
Posted Thu Aug 30, 2007 at 11:05 AM PDT bySony Pictures Home Entertainment has revealed that it is close to having sold one million Blu-ray discs in North America since the format's launch in June of 2006.
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Netflix: Demand for Blu-ray and HD DVD Evenly Split, But Tiny
Posted Fri Aug 24, 2007 at 11:02 AM PDT byThe nation's leading online DVD rental service says demand among its customers for both high-def disc formats is equal, but (no surprise) it pales in comparison to standard-def DVD.
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Disc Sales: Hard Numbers in for First Half of 2007
Posted Wed Aug 15, 2007 at 10:45 AM PDT byNew data released Tuesday by Home Media Research provides a first look at actual disc sales numbers for the first half of 2007, and it's more good news for Blu-ray.
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'300' Blu-ray Outsells HD DVD by 2 to 1
Posted Thu Aug 9, 2007 at 10:36 AM PDT byIn its first week out of the gate, consumers preferred the Blu-ray edition of '300' nearly twice as much as its HD DVD counterpart.
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