81:19 Nielsen/VideoScan Weekly Sales Numbers

[WickyWoo]

Check out the two page disney ad on 4-5, with a full page devoted to BD!

They run it every week

Remember that even at 9500 copies on HD, that's still more copies than 2 or 3top 10 titles would sell normally

[jdsanko]

Originally Posted by Longshot

Wow. I'm surprised by this. Even though it's essentially 2-1. I thought it would be around 70-30 blu.

I wonder how the replacements for defective HD-DVD combos are counted?

[Blubaru]

Originally Posted by Longshot

Wow. I'm surprised by this. Even though it's essentially 2-1. I thought it would be around 70-30 blu.

Yep. Those numbers are still disappointing.

[Scorxpion]

Its another celebrating week for BD and its increasing dominance around world.

GO BLU-RAY you are my favorite format ever made

[Iceman_II]

Also notice that all, and I mean ALL of the "streeting this week" and "prebooking" titles are blu!

[Jimbo976]

Looks like good news to me. Over 2:1 on all new common releases and with a lot more big selling exclusives on the way. 300 was 2.5:1 for the week which is also a good sign.

I thought the reason 300 sold so much on Blu was because all those gamer PS3 guys would buy it and then never buy a movie again? So all those gamer guys turned around and got Disturbia pushing it to 2:1 as well?

[The Big Blue]

It must be a mistake but I'm seeing Jungle Book Blu-ray on Oct 2 pg.22.

[The Big Blue]

I think it is a mistake because right after that they list only the DVD for the Pixar shorts. Dang, I about had a heart attack.

[WickyWoo]

I wonder how the replacements for defective HD-DVD combos are counted?

They aren't.

These are strictly transactions that are counted. Discs you pay for at a store or online site. No freebies, no defect replacements etc

[GaS]

Originally Posted by Blubaru

Yep. Those numbers are still disappointing.

Yeah, I would have liked the 70's. 61% si is good.

[NutsAboutPS3]

It's interesting to look at the ratio for individual titles:
300 - 71:29
Disturbia - 67:33
TMNT - 68:32

i.e. the neutral titles in the top 10 show a better ratio in favour of BD than the overall ratio of 66:34, so the reason why HD DVD is doing slightly better than the neutral movies suggest is because right now they have the stronger selling exclusives with Bourne and Hot Fuzz. As soon as we get some big hitting BD exclusives we'll be up into the 70s again.

The Since Inception figure changing reflects the fact that 300 sales represent a significant chunk of all high def discs ever sold.

[cartier]

Originally Posted by The Big Blue

It must be a mistake but I'm seeing Jungle Book Blu-ray on Oct 2 pg.22.

No Mistake there is a posting on the blu-ray.com main page about it.

Also interesting is the opinion piece on microsoft supporting HD-DVD to encourage the format war to continue.

Lastly, the success of Blu-ray overseas is great (page 12 article), was it not just a few weeks ago when someone from Universal made a comment about the HD market being more than the US and that elsewhere in the world HD-DVD was more successful than Blu-ray?

[Longshot]

Originally Posted by GoldenRedux

Disappointing? Blu-ray releases have basically been as slow as molasses over the Summer, with the only big release really being 300, which is cross-format, and still Blu-ray has not only maintained its 2:1 advantage, but in a season where we have seen weeks where there were double-digit HD-DVD releases and zero Blu-ray releases, HD-DVD hasn't even managed to pull off a single victory for any given week, not even a 50/50 week. Now, Blu-ray has moved up to a 61% since inception lead, and you call it disappointing? Tough crowd.

You're 100% on the money. The meaningful number is the SI not the weekly. No complaints there.

[ra1024]

There's an interesting article on page 14 indicating studies show a low percentage of people are satisified with movie downloads. It looks like a lot of the responses related to illegal downloads of bad copies but it still looks like even the legal downloads aren't being received well. I hope MS is listening

[jamen6]

can someone post the numbers and the grid please?

[Blubaru]

64% may have been good for 4-5 months ago. From here on out anything under 70% is disappointing.

[GaS]

Originally Posted by Blubaru

64% may have been good for 4-5 months ago. From here on out anything under 70% is disappointing.

Eh, not for summer time. Now in the fall when the big releases hit, then it would be surprising not to see 70's more regularly.

[marzetta7]

Updated the original post with the newest info...

Nielsen/VideoScan Numbers ending August 12th

http://www.nxtbook.com/nxtbooks/ques...1907/index.php

WE: BD-66% HDD-34% YTD: BD-66% HDD-34% SI: BD-61% HDD-39%

WriteSimply, where's my photoshop eye candy for us lazy bastards?

[marzetta7]

Also, anyone catch the article from the editor on the second page accusing Microsoft of fueling this format war? Anyone care to photoshop this so we can send it out upon the net and get the word out?

[docjan_uk]

Excellent, that means BD just broke 60% since inception.

Now to move onto 62%!