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Oh! Because I review discs, gotcha. Well, too bad I only kept about 10 of those and still have over a 100 titles. Oops.

Just wanted to make sure the one person left on the forum who didn't know knew you get discs for free,

Yes, I get some for free, but not all. I purchased 20 discs in the past 2 weeks all in Blu, so obviously I'm not getting all for free

Hey it's all good. Besides I thought you'd appreciate another opportunity to mention you review discs.

Yep, seem likes an awesome time, thanks!

Hehe no problem at all!

At least you got the attention off you're good friend Pro-B and derailed the thread. Phew.

The attention off "my're" friend?

No, it's more about the old "glass houses" type thing.

And how exactly is how many discs anyone owns about Blu-Ray sales?

EDIT: OK I admit after wrote this last line I realized it sounds funny. Still, things were already getting off track.

Not sure what 'my're' friend means.

But when someone writes there is not enough good movies on Blu-ray and someone replies back with when they in fact only own a handful of titles...

Sadly, the thread was delayed with 300 talk before.

I don't know Pro-B and I have no idea what is criteria is for buying discs.

To say there are hardly any good movies on Blu-Ray is a bunch of BS. It's so subjective it's silly to even debate it.

But I will anyway: We do have great films on BD. The Kubricks; Blade Runner; Bonnie & Clyde; CE3K; new classics like Pan's Labyrinth; There Will Be Blood; No Country For Old Men. We're getting One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. Great stuff. Just like last summer's The Lives Of Others, Sony is releasing another Best Foreign Film oscar winner this summer: The Counterfeiters. And this says nothing about how many great popcorn and blockbuster films there are on Blu already.

Even for someone who is really picky about films, I think there's more than "a handful" of good films. Arpeggi obviously can't stand 300 - that's fine. But a lot of people liked it, and it has been a tentpole release for Blu-Ray so far.

I own a 100 titles but could easily dwindle them down to 60 or 70 "musts" for me so far. To say there is nothing to buy is a load of BS.

I agree 100%. That's my point.

As I said, we don't know what each person's buying criteria is for Blu-Ray.

But I don't think you have to own 100's of Blu-Ray's to state there are many good releases on the format.

Some useful information from a Lionsgate press release:

BD sales of Rambo were 12.82% of the DVD, so we have:

2,000,000 * 12.82 / 100 = 256,400

Which would give us the following BD sales

1. Rambo 256,400
2. National Treasure: Book of Secrets 163,480
3. Rambo Trilogy 60,230
4. 300 47,330
5. National Treasure 35,870
6. I Am Legend 34,000
7. The Golden Compass 32,790
8. National Treasure Two-Pack 28,280
9. The Chronicles of Narnia 27,310
10. Blade Runner 22,200
11. Superbad 20,540
12. 3:10 to Yuma 19,080
13. Rambo: First Blood Part II 18,740
14. Planet Earth 18,610
15. Rambo III 17,720
16. V for Vendetta 16,180
17. Blood Diamond 15,770
18. Full Metal Jacket 15,360
19. Over America 14,590
20. Twister 14,150

Note:
It might be that they were lumping together sales of the Rambo DVD and the "Rambo Complete Collector's Set" DVD. In that case, the sales of Rambo BD would be 'only' 239,000.

Wow. I thought Rambo would sell well, but not in the 250k range. This bodes well for when mega titles like Iron Man, The Dark Knight, and Indy debut. Those should all move at least 500,000 copies. I wonder if any of them can get to 1 million discs in the first week? If Warners discounts The Dark Knight the way they did I Am Legend, I think it has a chance.

National Treasure 2 had a great hold. Looks like it's close to 500k.

While the Rambo number seems feasible, a lot of others titles do not. Golden Compass still selling 32k (more then Narnia?)? I Am Legend 34k?

The last raw sales number you posted: GizmoDVD showed only 3 titles breaking the 10K mark for that week.

While sales have indeed been better, it does seem a stretch that the top 20 are now all in excess of 10K.

Yeah, I too have a hard time believing that all those titles, including Over America suddenly jumped 7-10k in a single week. PS3/BD SA sales are not that high to show a jump that big in a few weeks.

It also seems a stretch that 300 sold nearly 50K copies.

Yeah, I think that movie has now sold more copies then players available!

Do you have a source for the stretching?

Pro-B

goats e?

Let's put it this way, there is a constant whining on this forum that sales numbers aren't released. When they are, for a selected few they seem like a stretch.

Pro-B

He's got a point.