Blu-ray DVD booms after format war
11-01-2009
Blu-ray DVD hardware and disc sales have boomed despite the drubbing that tough economic times are giving the consumer electronics industry. Blu-ray player technology is rife in new-generation televisions, computers and DVD players touted this week at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas where, a year earlier, it won a format war with HD DVD. Blu-ray "adoption" surged in 2008 while US sales of movie discs in the format more than quadrupled, with nearly 29 million bought in the final quarter of the year, according to industry statistics.
