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Back in April, Sony Head Ryoji Chubachi projected that its Blu-ray Compact disk arrangement would garner 50 percent of DVD bazaar share by the closing stages of 2008. At this rate, according to new data, we could get there in about nine years.

For the US residence tape market, new statistics from Nielsen VideoScan show that Blu-ray ended last week with a scant 8 percent share -- only two proportion points over the 6 percent recorded for the last week of April, and a 13.4 decline over the previous week.

Still, about 8.8 million Blu-ray discs have been sold in 2008, in difference to an even more paltry 5.6 million in all of 2007, according to bazaar research released this week by Residence Media Magazine.

Content available on Blu-ray -- still a problematic matter -- seems to be moving along some with recent announcements of Blu-ray editions of The Godfather Anthology from Paramount, the big television account of Get Smart from Warner, and Lucky Integer Slevin from Weinstein Company, for example.

Meanwhile, exterior of the embarrassment of Blu-ray-ready HDTVs, vendors are also announcing new PCs with Blu-ray drives. These new PCs choice from NetComputing s portable computer unit procession to Dip s Detached house Desktop and Slim Desktop announced this week and Sony s own Vaio TT ultra-portable .

Companies such as Sony and Panasonic are also producing fourth age bracket Blu-ray cast list capable of presenting value-added BD-Live Content -- and one of these players, Sony s BDP-S350, actually got to bazaar last month.

Yet pricing rest somewhat high at this end for Blu-ray movies, especially considering that a delivery of trade who buy these titles are likely to timepiece it only once before shelving it. The MSRP for Get Smart on Blu-ray is 39.95, for instance.

Meanwhile, Blu-ray cast list typically still price tag 300 or more, although both the Samsung BD-P1500 and Sony BDP-S300 can reportedly be found for under 200 sometimes at Means of communication Shed and other stores.

VideoScan s rankings for HD DVD have disappeared from Nielsen s rankings entirely, due to the ruin of the commerce s only competitor HD format, goodbye Blu-ray to compete strictly with traditional DVD on the scoreboard.
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