Sony Pictures Home Entertainment announced at IFA that they have sold more
than 250,000 Blu-ray titles in Europe. More impressive though is that they've sold nearly one million titles in North America alone.
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment(SPHE) today announced that the company's Blu-ray Disc(TM) sales acrossEurope have
reached 250,000 while sales in North America are nearing theone million mark approaching the fourth quarter with the Blu-ray launch ofthe
highly anticipated blockbuster SPIDER-MAN 3 and Steven Spielberg'sCLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND.
These benchmarks follow
last week's announcement that sales of thehigh-definition format in six emerging markets including Hong Kong,Singapore, Taiwan, Eastern
Europe, South Africa and the Middle East nowaccount for 10 percent of SPHE's total business in the growing
regions.
With Spider-man 3 and the Spider-man Trilogy on the way, SPHE shouldn't have any problems
exceeding the one million mark. If you'd like to read more, SPHE's entire announcement can be found here.
