Its all over, folks! (Neilsen/VideoScan Data)

[Josh]

Originally Posted by Grubert

Week ended Jan 14
YTD: BD 100.00, HD 38.36
SI: BD 92.40, HD 100.00

Week ended Jan 7
YTD: BD 100.00, HD 47.14
SI: BD 85.05, HD 100.00

Week ended Jan 14

Top 5 BD
1. Crank 100
2. Black Hawk Down 38.51
3. Underworld: Evolution 38.49
4. Superman Returns 36.48
5. Talladega Nights 35.95

Top 5 HD DVD
1. Batman Begins 100.00
2. Mission: Impossible III 59.24
3. Troy 46.58
4. V for Vendetta 44.95
5. Goodfellas 38.20

Week ended Jan 7

Top 5 BD
1 The Covenant 100.00
2. X-Men: The Last Stand 73.42
3. Superman Returns 73.13
4. Talladega Nights 72.31
5. The Descent 53.86

Top 5 HD DVD
1. Batman Begins 100.00
2. Troy 46.58
3. Goodfellas 40.89
4. V for Vendetta 37.97
5. The Last Samurai 37.09

Originally Posted by Innerloop

So just so I make sure we are understanding this clearly--

These are relative percentages with the higher of the two being normalized to "100%" and the other expressed relative to the higher of the two?

So "Since Inception" BD has moved 92.4% as many units of software as HD-DVD, meaning its basically caught up, given that we're a couple weeks beyond that figure and the rate of increase would imply an easy overtake?

And Year-to-date sales of Blu ray media as of the most recent figure is 2.6X the sales of HD-DVD?

In some ways these numbers match with DVDEmpire. They seems more unbalanced than the Amazon numbers.

If these are authoritative, it does a few things:

- Helps prove DVD Empire numbers are pretty accurate.
- Helps prove Amazon numbers are somewhat HD-DVD slanted
- help almost prove that BD software sales since inception have passed up HD-DVD.

http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?t=798080