I like seeing the sales indexes for each sole format. If you look at the #5 blu-ray title (Blood Diamond), it's index is 74.95. The #2 HD DVD title is Norbit at 46.41. That's just sad if you're a HD DVD supporter, especially factoring in that PE HD DVD's index compared to Apocalypto is 82.27.
Norbit's sales shows a preference for Blu-ray. It's indexes are:
BD - 77.78
HD - 38.35 (take 82.27, PE HD DVD's index, and multiply by 0.4661, Norbit HD DVD's index as a percentage)
Please correct me if that is not accurate. If it is, look at this:
38.35 x 2 = 76.70
If all that is correct, then Norbit BD outsold its HD DVD counterpart by more than a 2:1 ratio. This would hint that the fire sale isn't doing too much. I know Norbit might not be the best title for this comparison, but it did pretty well at the box office.
Letters from Iwo Jima's index also shows two things: Preference for Blu-ray and the staying power of demand for Blu-ray over HD DVD.
Once again, correct me if those numbers are wrongly calculated.
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