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Originally Posted by bruceames
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They are in the top 10 rankings of DVD players on Amazon.com. I will give you THAT. We don't have any idea what those rankings actually mean in terms of real sales.
#7, #8, and #10 are DVD recorders. Think those are selling in big quantities, as in extrapolated to 100K sales a month that the A2 must make to hit Fuji-san's 1.2 million (just for Toshiba decks) projection for this year?
How many players sales does it take to be #6? If we mixed in PS/3 sales (at those rare moments it is actually in stock) where would the PS/3 be in that list?
We need objective sales data. The Amazon disc rankings versus the actual disc numbers we are hearing is ample evidence that Amazon rankings are a very poor measure of absolutes. All you can see are relative numbers and trends.
Also, remember a major complaint the HD DVD crowd has is that the BB and CC are doing a lousy job making HD DVD players available in the B&M. That is not the case with the BD players. So, why would people risk buying a BD deck off Amazon.com?
www.jandr.com: $499 for Samsung BDP1000. J&R are pretty big downtown Mahattan retailer.
Gary