NOV. 3 | BEVERLY HILLS, Calif.—The home entertainment industry is on its way to recovery due in large part to Blu-ray Disc, according to retail and studio participants at Tuesday’s Blu-Con conference here.

Best Buy is aggressively merchandising both Blu-ray players and titles, rallying around the products as a key expanding business. In particular, Blu-ray players are this year’s fastest-growing consumer electronics product, surging 112% in year-over-year sales, Mike Vitelli, executive VP of consumer operations group at Best Buy, said in a keynote. That tops the 106% and 85% jumps for popular ebooks and netbooks, respectively.

Blu-ray players currently make up 66% of Best Buy’s home entertainment hardware category, compared to 35% two years ago. Blu-ray titles comprise 25% of the retailer’s video software, up from 13% two years ago. “This is why we are bullish about Blu-ray,” said Vitelli.

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Most of SIGM's sales and profits right now are in the telco IPTV space. However, heading into 2010, SIGM has 5 other product lines that will be ramping up and adding to profitability:

1. Blu-ray
2. cable IPTV
3. home control/Z-wave
4. home networking, including UWB and Coppergate technology
5. DMA - I notice that Amazon is still showing a 1-2 month wait to get the popular Western Digital DMA powered by SIGM:

http://www.amazon.com/Western-Digital-Ne...

As sales and profits from these 5 product lines ramp up in 2010 the stock price will be heading higher. We'll be hearing more about new products from SIGM at the CES show in Las Vegas a couple of months from now.

http://www.cesweb.org/sessions/keynotes....