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Verizon rolls out price increase with monumental HD rollout {Engadget HD}
Oct 6th 2008 4:08PM Right, you have to pay $99 for Super Fan and $10 for the HD access. If you don't pay the $10, then you only get the other Super Fan extras.
Verizon rolls out price increase with monumental HD rollout {Engadget HD}
Oct 6th 2008 3:43PM You're right MIke, it is unclear. The best guess I've read is when the full 100 HD channels are available in your area then you'll see the increase, but that is not official.
Blu-ray releases on October 7th 2008 {Engadget HD}
Oct 6th 2008 2:20PM FYI, Darren doesn't have kids, and hates being referenced by name in comments.
Blu-ray releases on October 7th 2008 {Engadget HD}
Oct 6th 2008 11:43AM Greatest comment ever!!
Apple TV update finally lets you buy hi-def TV shows from the couch {Engadget HD}
Oct 3rd 2008 4:52PM You're totally right, I didn't even read it.
Iron Man lives up to expectations, breaks all Blu-ray records {Engadget HD}
Oct 3rd 2008 2:03PM Patrick,
You're totally right, I edited the post, thanks for catching that.
Hands-on and unboxing: Nero LiquidTV | TiVo PC {Engadget HD}
Sep 30th 2008 4:17PM I doubt it, but I'll give it a try.
Blu-ray's market share has almost doubled since HD DVD's demise {Engadget HD}
Sep 26th 2008 2:04PM I just found this, it is the actual volumes of Blu-ray Discs sold from Jan until August of 08. Here is how it broke down since HD DVD's demise.
224,819 Feb 17th
262,404 August 3rd.
Now while we don't have the numbers for September, we do know that last week there was 9.18 Million spent on Blu-ray, so it's about the same as it was in early August.
Not enough of an increase to call home about, but most definitely not down.
Another interesting quote from this page. "In the first six months of 2008, consumers spent an estimated $194 million on Blu-ray Disc purchases - a gain of nearly 350% from the $43 million that came from high-definition disc sales (BD and HD DVD combined) the first six months of 2007."
http://forum.blu-ray.com/showthread.php?t=23417
Blu-ray's market share has almost doubled since HD DVD's demise {Engadget HD}
Sep 26th 2008 1:46PM LS2LS7,
Every one of the titles I listed were released day-and-date with DVD, that's why although Transformers was the number one title a few weeks ago, it isn't in my list.
So those are actual market share numbers, and not obscured by the "top 20" problem. Fox has to be happy about 17% of all Terminator Season one titles on Blu-ray since it costs about 30% more than DVD. Of course this begs the question of if the share is revenues or number of discs sold. I suspect it is revenue.
Blu-ray's market share has almost doubled since HD DVD's demise {Engadget HD}
Sep 26th 2008 9:49AM The problem is that the numbers we need aren't public. The Summer is typically not the biggest time of year for any packaged media, while the holiday season is the biggest. We don't have numbers from this time last year, so we just don't know.
Either way, of all the months HMM released the revenues, here is the high and low.
6.19 August 17th (The Bank Job)
12.38 May 3th (National Treasure: Book of Secrets)
But it's totally dependant on the titles released. Iron Man should be a good indicator next week.
