Apparently, Blu-ray has gained quite a bit of traction over this holiday shopping season, despite all of the doomsayers in the tech press who've been calling this season Blu-ray's last gasp before downloading takes over. The evidence of this is in Amazon's sales charts where the Samsung BD-P1500 now ranks as their #1 selling electronics product. This is ahead of Amazon's own Kindle e-book reader and the Apple iPods.

Granted, this is not the best BD player on the market, but it's definitely a sign that those early Black Friday/Cyber Monday reports of Blu-ray players ranking among the most heavily searched items have begun to turn into actual sales.

http://www.tvpredictions.com/samsung120808.htm

With The Dark Knight coming out tomorrow and on track to become the first Blu-ray title to sell 1 million copies, I don't see how so many tech writers are ready to write Blu-ray's epitaph, unless they have chosen to cite wishful thinking over actual sales data as their evidence.