Chevron icon It indicates an expandable section or menu, or sometimes previous / next navigation options. HOMEPAGE

DVD Players To Outsell Blu-ray Players This Year

blue-crush.jpgThe sad state of Blu-ray: Despite much hype and (finally) shrinking price tags, last decade's technology is still winning.

NYT: The Consumer Electronics Association predicts that North American consumers will spend $1.3 billion on Blu-ray players in 2009, outpacing the projected $1.2 billion that will be spent on regular DVD players, although Blu-ray players are two to three times more expensive.

Advertisement

That means that DVD players -- which many of us have spares of, collecting dust in closets -- will still significantly outsell Blu-ray players this year.

The question: Whether Blu-ray player unit sales will ever outpace DVD player sales, or whether via cable and gadgets like Netflix-capable TVs, consumers will favor Internet-based movie consumption instead.

Telling: Even Sony (SNE) is starting to think about life after/instead of Blu-ray -- it's advertising its PlayStation3 as a "movie downloading machine" -- instead of as a Blu-ray player.

See Also:
Blu-ray, Cut Prices Or You're Toast
DVD Sales Down, Blu-ray Trends 'Encouraging'
Blu-Ray Players Finally Cheap. Will Anyone Care?

Big Tech Media Movies
Advertisement
Close icon Two crossed lines that form an 'X'. It indicates a way to close an interaction, or dismiss a notification.

Jump to

  1. Main content
  2. Search
  3. Account