Despite new offerings from companies like Panasonic and LG, Sony captured 60% of Blu-ray stand-alone player sales for the week ending November 24th (which includes Black Friday sales data). Coming in second was Samsung with 37% followed by Panasonic with 5% of total sales.
Both Panasonic and Samsung have made great strides in the past few weeks in order to boost their share of the market. Samsung has heavily discounted their
BD-P1400 player (which can now be found for
under $300) while Panasonic has
introduced the first BD Profile v1.1 player, the
DMP-BD30, which is able to
playback picture-in-picture extras.