81:19 Nielsen/VideoScan Weekly Sales Numbers

[Blu Titan]

Originally Posted by WickyWoo

Amazon is the only online-only retailer counted

The rest are the top 20 retail stores except wal mart, who refuses to provide numbers. However the sample from the rest is big enough, and the studios still see the numbers and they pretty much line up.

Wow... finally somebody with a simple answser to a simple question. WickyWoo is in a roll!

[Anthony P]

Speaking of which, whatever happened to the "We are going to have 800 titles by the end of the year?"

reporter mistake. A slide showed all the movies available by month for 2006 and the reporter added them all together and said 800 will be released in 2007

[MatrixS2000]

Predicting 67:33 BR for this week.

[Blu Titan]

I have looked at the upcoming releases for both formats, and I truly have a "very nice feeling". It is just so funny sometimes I was checking out e-productwars to see the Amazon rankings (we know of all of the FUD posted there). There was a link to an article claiming that Sony's stock was down 15%. I clicked on the link, and to my surprise it was a legitimate article. However, as I was reading the first paragraph, I glanced at the top of the article where the name of the author and the date of the article was indicated. The article was from 2003 Incredible this DUDers!

[Blu-dock Saint]

Originally Posted by BlueNeon

I have looked at the upcoming releases for both formats, and I truly have a "very nice feeling". It is just so funny sometimes I was checking out e-productwars to see the Amazon rankings (we know of all of the FUD posted there). There was a link to an article claiming that Sony's stock was down 15%. I clicked on the link, and to my surprise it was a legitimate article. However, as I was reading the first paragraph, I glanced at the top of the article where the name of the author and the date of the article was indicated. The article was from 2003 Incredible this DUDers!

I hope that the general public is starting to understand the FUD that is spread around amazon daily.

[w_tanoto]

I'm predicting 60:40. Maybe more. I hope we see increase in year to date sale. People like me with limited favourite genre will not buy anything from this or last week, but will buy a lot on 18 sept and 2 oct

[mycroft]

Originally Posted by WickyWoo

Amazon is the only online-only retailer counted

The rest are the top 20 retail stores except wal mart, who refuses to provide numbers. However the sample from the rest is big enough, and the studios still see the numbers and they pretty much line up.

Nielsen First Alert data only tracks 5 major national retailers, and Amazon is not one of them. The monthly numbers is what you are referring to, which tracks all their data sources. If you get their weekly numbers, and their monthly numbers, they are often surprisingly different, with the monthly numbers being more accurate because of a bigger sample size. It doesn't affect trends that much though, which is probably why you see HMM using percentages instead of actual numbers.

[blitz6speed]

Originally Posted by mycroft

Nielsen First Alert data only tracks 5 major national retailers, and Amazon is not one of them. The monthly numbers is what you are referring to, which tracks all their data sources. If you get their weekly numbers, and their monthly numbers, they are often surprisingly different, with the monthly numbers being more accurate because of a bigger sample size. It doesn't affect trends that much though, which is probably why you see HMM using percentages instead of actual numbers.

I doubt that, mainly because Resident Evil 2 BD hit #10 for one week, and it was during the week that it was included for free from amazon (but still counted as a sold disc to the nielson #s). The disc was never spotted in the top 10 before or after that week, so i think amazon is definitely included.

[phloyd]

Grubert has reiterated many a time that Videoscan includes Amazon.

[kwhiplash]

Originally Posted by atomik kinder

Did anyone else notice how far HEROS on HD DVD plummeted just this week? I know Amazon sales don't directly reflect what is going on in the real retail world, but when something like that happens it usually isn't a good sign. Also Transformers HD DVD is up and it at number 4 currently on Amazon. I bet the HD DVD boys are having a party over that. But anyway. I counted at least 10 or 11 BDs that are coming out early October that I plan on purchasing the week that Tranformers comes out. (This will be the most movies of any format I have purchased at one time!) There are a few more that I could add too, but I don't want to bust the piggy bank wide open.

Transformers HD is even out selling the Transformers DVD on Amazon at the moment. Thats almost unheard of...for any format! Shhhh don't tell anyone...the HD guys will be crowing it from the rafters.

[Merlins]

Originally Posted by kwhiplash

Transformers HD is even out selling the Transformers DVD on Amazon at the moment. Thats almost unheard of...for any format! Shhhh don't tell anyone...the HD guys will be crowing it from the rafters.

No, it's not. It's out-ranking on pre-order Amazon.com. Rankings is not the same thing sales ratios. Pre-orders are not sales.

[Blu Titan]

Originally Posted by phloyd

Grubert has reiterated many a time that Videoscan includes Amazon.

Amazon sales are indeed included in the Nielsen's and here is the proof: a couple of months ago, when the initial price reduction of the PS3 took place, Amazon was given away a Blu-Ray movie (first Memento then Resident Evil Apocalypse). Memento made it to # 2 or 3 in amazon sales, and that title had been released for months. Before the Amazon promotion, Memento was no where to be found in any of the relevant sales rankings. However, Memento #10 in the Nielsen's for the week of the amazon promotion.

[Rob Zuber]

An early tidbit:

On the high-definition disc front, Warner's "300" remained at the top of both the Blu-ray Disc and the HD DVD sales charts, according to First Alert data.

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/...2a9f3dcfcda6cb

[LynxFX]

Originally Posted by Rob Zuber

An early tidbit:

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/...2a9f3dcfcda6cb

Which means Blu-ray is on top once again. Of course, we all knew that already.

[kowhite]

Originally Posted by LynxFX

Which means Blu-ray is on top once again. Of course, we all knew that already.

I think the only question any sane people have, is how much did BD win by...not whether they did.

[Merlins]

Originally Posted by LynxFX

Which means Blu-ray is on top once again. Of course, we all knew that already.

Again? They have been on top each and single week for the entire year.

[Neo65]

I'm surprised that Heroes and BoG faded so quickly. Otoh, this is likely another one of those low volume weeks. It's not as if Delta Farce was going to break any records.

[Stef Nighthawk]

Originally Posted by kwhiplash

Transformers HD is even out selling the Transformers DVD on Amazon at the moment. Thats almost unheard of...for any format! Shhhh don't tell anyone...the HD guys will be crowing it from the rafters.

Wait till the movie is released and count the amount of disappointed people that bought the HD DVD thinking they could play it on their upscaling DVD player.

[Rup_Muk]

Originally Posted by Stef Nighthawk

Wait till the movie is released and count the amount of disappointed people that bought the HD DVD thinking they could play it on their upscaling DVD player.

^^ True dat!

Imagine what BD sales would be!! We'd be trouncing them both!!

My $0.02.

Rup.

[dialog_gvf]

Originally Posted by GoldenRedux

What were the BD vs. HD-DVD releases that will be included in the Nielsens coming out tomorrow?

Sept 4:

Blu-ray:

Dave Matthews and Tim Reynolds: Live at Radio City (Sony BMG)
Delta Farce (Lionsgate)
Nip/Tuck: The Complete Fourth Season (Warner)
Remember the Titans (Buena Vista)

HD DVD:

Nip/Tuck: The Complete Fourth Season (Warner)