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Industry: Email Alert RSS FeedSolid bow for Blu-ray.(Blu-Ray Div.)
Video Business, July, 2006 by Netherby, Jennifer; Ault, Susanne
By Jennifer Netherby and Susanne Ault Titles outpace players Suppliers and retailers called first-week sales of Blu-ray movies encouraging, with Sony Pictures Home Entertainment reporting it sold through 15% to 20% of its initial shipment of titles. Hardware sales reports, meanwhile, were more mixed.
Ben Feingold, worldwide president of SPHE, was cautiously optimistic about the studio's Blu-ray launch, which included XXX , House of Flying Daggers , Underworld: Evolution , 50 First Dates and Hitch. The studio shipped around 15,000 units of each title. "I think we're encouraged," Feingold said. "The only issue is hardware supply. In terms of our national accounts, where there's hardware, the results are encouraging." Feingold said...
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