Home Media Magazine spreading BS?

[TallCoolOne]

http://www.nxtbook.com/nxtbooks/ques...p?startpage=34

check out the top left article, says there will be 43 bluray titles this year, 147 in 2008, 342 in 2009, and 628 in 2010...then goes on to say there will be 800 hd dvd titles this year...where on earth do they get their info??? says "citing anecdotal data".

this is the type of BS that consumers will read and believe, and may base a purchase on it.

[GasCat]

I saw this same misinformation on AVS. I think the person is talking about last years movies or something. So yes, total BS.

If it were Time magazine or the Wall Street Journal then it would hurt. They check the stories they run for accuracy and assign reporters who know the subject. That site doesn't do either. They just repeat misinformation

Edit: corrected line about nxtbook. thx....

[TallCoolOne]

you sure nxtbook isnt just a way for them to also distribute their magazine on the web? i got the impression this was a magazine on the newstand that they also published online via nxtbook. But i could be wrong...

[WriteSimply]

NXTBook is the technology behind the browsing of an actual magazine.

The magazine itself is Home Media Magazine by Home Media Retailing. It's reputable.

However, the journalist got his info screwed. It's been discussed in AVSF where the reporter thought the 800 number is the total titles released while in fact it is a cumulative number. And the figure starts of since HD-DVD launched last year.

Basically, don't judge the magazine from that one article. It has provided the figures and pie charts that have been discussed many times over in Blu-ray.com forum.


fuad

[gand41f]

I think the HD DVD number of 800 also double- and triple-counts discs that are released in multiple regions. So if the same movie is sold as different products in US, Europe and Japan, that would be counted as 3.

Looking at the Blu-ray numbers, it doesn't seem to be doing this.

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gandalf

[kknight]

Originally Posted by TallCoolOne

http://www.nxtbook.com/nxtbooks/ques...p?startpage=34

check out the top left article, says there will be 43 bluray titles this year, 147 in 2008, 342 in 2009, and 628 in 2010...then goes on to say there will be 800 hd dvd titles this year...where on earth do they get their info??? says "citing anecdotal data".

this is the type of BS that consumers will read and believe, and may base a purchase on it.

I saw this article too, it was a total joke.

[TallCoolOne]

ok, so they clearly made a mistake, hopefully they rectify it in their next issue...the 800 for hd dvd is clearly wrong...but is the bluray number correct? it seems way too low...

[Stuie]

Luckily we are all people here and not sheep. We don't follow the herd so ignore comments like that. Base it on facts.

[dialog_gvf]

Originally Posted by TallCoolOne

http://www.nxtbook.com/nxtbooks/ques...p?startpage=34

check out the top left article, says there will be 43 bluray titles this year, 147 in 2008, 342 in 2009, and 628 in 2010...then goes on to say there will be 800 hd dvd titles this year...where on earth do they get their info??? says "citing anecdotal data".

this is the type of BS that consumers will read and believe, and may base a purchase on it.

The reporter saw this slide from Richard Doherty:



It's cumulative numbers from 2006 (April 2006 was the HD DVD launch). But the reporter thought it was monthly numbers for 2007.

[RUR]

Originally Posted by TallCoolOne

ok, so they clearly made a mistake, hopefully they rectify it in their next issue...the 800 for hd dvd is clearly wrong...but is the bluray number correct? it seems way too low...

No, the reporter got that wrong, too. He took the BR disc sales in $millions and used those figures as titles to be released e.g. $43M in sales 2007 turned into 43 titles in 2007. Really.

He didn't get a single fact correct in pretty much the entire story with both HD DVD and BR figures dead wrong.

[RUR]

Originally Posted by gand41f

I think the HD DVD number of 800 also double- and triple-counts discs that are released in multiple regions. So if the same movie is sold as different products in US, Europe and Japan, that would be counted as 3.

The correct figure per the HD DVD folks for 2007 is 600 titles, but the method by which they're counting those titles is as you've described above.

Looking at the Blu-ray numbers, it doesn't seem to be doing this.

See my post above re: why the BR count in the article is inaccurate.

[gand41f]

Man, that's quite amazing. I rarely call people names on the 'net, but how in the hell did this idiot get a job writing articles like this?

I thought Home Media Magazine was good. I guess that sentence is really in past tense now.

sheesh
gandalf