Blu-ray Hardware Sales Hit 93% Share

Research group NPD has released HD format players sales figures for the first two weeks of January. As you can see from the graph below, after the January 4 pre-CES Warner announcement Blu-ray player sales went from just over half the market share of HD players sold to 93% the following week. In week two of January, 21,770 Blu-ray players were sold vs. 1,758 HD-DVD players. These figures are for stand alone players only, video game consoles not included.
What's next? Now Video Business is reporting on retailers that are planning to de-emphasize HD-DVD in stores in favor of Blu-ray as buyers for the chains begin to scale back HD-DVD purchasing. Even though some retailers like Best Buy, Amazon, DVDEmpire and local home theater giant Bjorn's evidently are not ready to change their product mix just yet, they will pretty much have to, since as of June 70% of Hollywood content will be on Blu-ray only.