Weekly Blu-ray sales up 120% year-over-year, DVD down 13%

  • Posted May 30th, 2009 at 05:41 EDT by Adam Dolge
  • 14 Comments

The latest Blu-ray sales figures are out, and Valkyrie topped Taken for the top spot in the U.S. for the week ending May 24, according to Nielson VideoScan First Alert. More importantly, however, Blu-ray sales continue to grow, up 119.47% in total revenue from this week last year, while DVD sales are down 13.10% from last year.

While the Blu-ray format is certainly gaining momentum, it has well over another year to go before it comes close to overtaking DVD. This week's top 20 DVDs outsold the week's top 20 Blu-ray discs by over six to one (6:1).

Below are the top 10 best-selling Blu-rays this week, in order:

- Valkyrie
- Taken
- Paul Blart: Mall Cop
- My Bloody Valentine 3D
- Underworld: Rise of the Lycans
- True Blood: The Complete First Season
- A Bug's Life
- Terminator 2: Judgment Day
- 24: Season 7
- Star Trek: Original Motion Picture Collection

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  1. HellsJester

    • 5:42am BST - May 30th, 2009
    • 1

    Go Blu-ray!!!

     

  2. xOdeVIIx

    • 5:46am BST - May 30th, 2009
    • 2

    2nd!!!

    Go Blu-Ray !!!!     

    there nothing i cant say for Dvd,  I dont  XD

  3. Muzikguy | Muzikguy

    • 5:55am BST - May 30th, 2009
    • 3

    B, b, but "digital distribution" (blah blah blah), nobody wants hard copies (blah blah blah). I hope analysts gets paid well.....


  4. higgos22

    • 6:06am BST - May 30th, 2009
    • 4

    @ 1 seconded no wait thirded and yeh bluray in less than a yr hopefully will overtake dvd sales wise then eventually all together

    anyways i know they r trying to make a new bluray disk which is good but they should sa=tart making entire seasons of tv shows on a bluray disk and with a larger disk u could make the season hd aswell

  5. Intervention

    • 6:26am BST - May 30th, 2009
    • 5

    Now if only the price of BD-R/RW media would drop to a reasonable price.

  6. bobtheduck

    • 7:40am BST - May 30th, 2009
    • 6

    @5 Damned straight

  7. b3mike

    • 8:57am BST - May 30th, 2009
    • 7

    Even an upscaled 720p blu ray rip looks amazing on the PS3. Standard definition is almost unbearable to watch now!

  8. radgamer420 | mistercrow

    • 10:54am BST - May 30th, 2009
    • 8

    Makes you wonder how many people are buying PS3 just as a reasonably priced Sony bluray player.

  9. Staticneuron | Staticneuron

    • 2:02pm BST - May 30th, 2009
    • 9

    @8

    Considering there are far cheaper final profile blu ray players out there. It would be stupid for some who is not interested in games... to get the more expensive PS3 for the sole purpose of playing blu rays. Take for instance the Samsung BD-P1600 is $250 and it is also 2.0.

    The idea of people purchasing PS3's because it was a decent priced 2.0 player is long obsolete.

  10. ptmww3

    • 2:56pm BST - May 30th, 2009
    • 10

    lol 5 and 6 ....you want a ferrari car for the price of a family car. no brain? your body doesn't grow from a todler to a man.............same thing for  technology

  11. tretormen

    • 2:57pm BST - May 30th, 2009
    • 11

    I no longer buy dvd's any more. Love my HD movies on my 1080p 52' in samsung 

  12. SolidDrake86

    • 5:45pm BST - May 30th, 2009
    • 12

    Go Blu !

  13. mcav | mcav

    • 6:26pm BST - May 30th, 2009
    • 13

    Anyone who didn't realise this was happening is really short sighted and stupid.

     

     

  14. C64isStillTheBest

    • 8:11pm BST - May 30th, 2009
    • 14

    This is great.  And the xbots and microsofties were saying that after DVD we're going to digital downloads LOL.  I watch heroes on Netflix on my brand new 23" 1080p monitor for my PC and with a fast cable connection it is still standard definition.  I cannot imagine how 720p much less 1080p would slow the stream.  True HD digital downloads are years away.

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