Strategy and Outcomes!!!

[Lord_Stewie]

Hey guys,

First off I would like to start with the fact that Spidey 3 and the boxset will be released this coming tuesday in north america. By far, i have learned that HDDVD wants to get their hands on whatever way possible to make a stand against BD. with transformers being released this tuesday. HD DVD camps have surely got thier hands on the ball. Transformers sold 190,000.00 units in its first week of release. http://www.dvdtown.com/news/transfor...d-release/4844

now we have spidey 3 and the boxset to look out for. what do you think will be the outcome? Would it surpass transformers numbers? Would it match it?. Would it definitely end this ridiculous format war?

What strategies do you think the Bluray camp needs to pull? This is a dirty battle, so far proven by HDDVD's group by taking over Paramount and dreamworks pictures. Should Bluray get to their level? Should BD camp Play dirty? What do you guys think?

[Slapper]

Originally Posted by shadblz

Hey guys,

First off I would like to start with the fact that Spidey 3 and the boxset will be released this coming tuesday in north america. By far, i have learned that HDDVD wants to get their hands on whatever way possible to make a stand against BD. with transformers being released this tuesday. HD DVD camps have surely got thier hands on the ball. Transformers sold 190,000.00 units in its first week of release. http://www.dvdtown.com/news/transfor...d-release/4844

now we have spidey 3 and the boxset to look out for. what do you think will be the outcome? Would it surpass transformers numbers? Would it match it?. Would it definitely end this ridiculous format war?

What strategies do you think the Bluray camp needs to pull? This is a dirty battle, so far proven by HDDVD's group by taking over Paramount and dreamworks pictures. Should Bluray get to their level? Should BD camp Play dirty? What do you guys think?

Spider-man 3 should stomp Transformers on HD-DVD. The PS3 crowd should show up at B&M stores en masse.

I also just saw an ad on TV during LA Ink (on TLC) just 15 minutes ago for the Blu-ray edition of Spider-Man 3. This was a strictly Blu-ray ad! There was no mention of the DVD version! Hopefully they air this commercial on the big network stations soon (if they aren't already).

On the opposite side of the coin, earlier tonight I saw an ad for Shrek 3, but it didn't mention the HD-DVD version at all.

[ziggy66]

Originally Posted by Slapper

Spider-man 3 should stomp Transformers on HD-DVD. The PS3 crowd should show up at B&M stores en masse.

I also just saw an ad on TV during LA Ink (on TLC) just 15 minutes ago for the Blu-ray edition of Spider-Man 3. This was a strictly Blu-ray ad! There was no mention of the DVD version! Hopefully they air this commercial on the big network stations soon (if they aren't already).

On the opposite side of the coin, earlier tonight I saw an ad for Shrek 3, but it didn't mention the HD-DVD version at all.

Yeah, i've noticed Spiderman 3 Blu Ray only ads being shown on HDNET's Nothing But Trailers

[Lord_Stewie]

how many/much units do you guys think that spidey 3 alone will sell?

[bhampton]

Hey,

First off,.. I don't believe the 190,000 figure and I don't think anyone else will believe it either once Blu Ray wins the weeks neilsens numbers again. That figure is how may titles they "sold" to internal clients or in other words how many they put into inventory.

Second,. Yeah, Spiderman and Pirates and that rat movie no one can sell should be enough to make everyone forget HD DUD forever.

-Brian

[Grisle]

I'm skeptical about the 190k figure too, but it seems like it would be such a cheap and short sighted trick to just announce the shipped numbers. Maybe they think that's a great thing, but I've been to 6 different retail stores that carry HD-DVD and they have a huge stock of Transformers left. I asked an employee at my BB today whether they just got a lot in stock or if they're not selling and he said they hadn't replenished the copies since the release date. It may be some isolated instances here where I live, but I've heard similar
stories in the forums.

I want to see Spidey do well so I'm hoping for huge numbers...I honestly can't say whether or not it will beat Transformers, but If the PQ is as awesome as I'm hearing we should see a lot of sales.

[Need0fMany]

Originally Posted by Grisle

I'm skeptical about the 190k figure too, but it seems like it would be such a cheap and short sighted trick to just announce the shipped numbers. ...

We are talking about the HD-DVD camp here, the camp behind the 150M$ payola. I really don't think releasing shipped numbers rather than sold numbers is beneath them

[Go Blu]

Spidey will surpass TF easily.
and for multiple weeks this quarter.

Remember if TF was on Blu 2 they would have sold at least double
which means 380,000.

[Grisle]

Originally Posted by Need0fMany

We are talking about the HD-DVD camp here, the camp behind the 150M$ payola. I really don't think releasing shipped numbers rather than sold numbers is beneath them

Yeah it just seems so lame. You announce these great numbers...you get all your consumers hyped saying all this crap to the other side only to find out it's not sold numbers...it's shipped. It would make their consumers have to eat their own words...which I'm all for by the way.