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/ 02.10.2010 12:00AM
Blu-ray’s Video-Disc Share Shrinks Again
While price points on Blu-ray players, movies and TV series titles continue falling — and sale of the 1080p disc format’s titles are more than double what it was a year ago at this time — Blu-ray’s overall sales share compared to standard DVD shrunk in its most recent weekly tally, to 11 percent.
In recent months, Blu-ray at times had managed to capture shares as high as between 13-16 percent. And while standard DVD sales had been steadily declining for more than a year, the older format sold more titles in late January 2010 than it did in late January 2009.
For the week ending Jan. 31, Blu-ray titles sales totaled slightly more than $21 million — up a whopping 106 percent over a year ago. But while standard DVD movie and TV series purchases were up barely 7 percent for the week over last year, DVD sales nevertheless totaled $167 million (89 percent share), according to Home Media Research.
Consequently, overall video-disc sales for the final week of January 2010 totaled more than $188 million — which was 13.3 percent higher than a year ago.
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Google Completes Motorola Mobility Acquisition
It’s a great time to be in the mobile business, and I’m confident that the team at Motorola will be creating the next generation of mobile devices that will improve lives for years to come.