Blu-ray sales up 91 percent in first half of 2009

The following is an article reporting the steady growth and impact of Blu-ray in the United States.

"..the Digital Entertainment Group (DEG) has issued a press release saying that U.S. Blu-ray sales are up 91 percent in the first half of 2009, which indicates that the format is maintaining its growth pace despite the recession. " [read more]

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Compact Disc Sales Still Waning

"Will this Christmas mark the death of the CD? Music industry analysts are already forecasting a blue holiday, with retailers not expecting much, in the way of profits, from music sales.." [read more]

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EMI Quits Selling CDs to Indie Record Stores

"The music industry knows how to hang out itself, even if it lacks the correct length pf rope. EMI, certainly reeling from declining physical album sales like the other Big 4 record labels, is now apparently telling independent album retailers that it will no longer sell them CDs." [continue reading]

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NASHVILLE SKYLINE: CD Sales Down for Country, but Digital Downloads Up

"Not surprisingly, CD sales continued to decline in the first half of 2009. Alarmingly for the music industry, growth of sales of digital albums also declined. Billboard and Nielsen SoundScan report that combined sales thus far in 2009 of CD albums and digital albums are down 23 million units from the same period a year ago..." [continue reading]

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BDA, Adams Dispute Harris Survey on Blu-ray

The following is an interesting article regarding a recent "Harris Survey" [read more here] that claimed that there were more HD-DVD players in American homes than Blu-ray players.

The Blu-ray Disc Association (BDA) is very skeptical of these statistics (for good reason), and Tony Adams, the president of Adams Media Research had the following to say: "Some people believe a DVD player on an HDTV is high-def. There's just so much confusion out there," Adams said. "Everybody makes mistakes" he said of the Harris survey "but we have models that show those numbers just can't be true."

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Five Reasons Blu-ray is Hurting

"Blu-ray by all accounts was supposed to revolutionize personal video with crisp high-definition picture quality and booming sound. But uptake has been slow. Here are five reasons that Blue-ray isn't making the splash it was expected to.." [continue reading]

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