Did the buy-a-thon kill Amazon?

[kamiller42]

Originally Posted by slickkeng

I've been tracking amazon sales rank on and off at hidef digest and it looks now that the HD-DVD versions of smallville, planet earth, and 300 have outsold the blu-ray versions! WTF is going on??? If you look at their graphs, HD-DVD has gained alot of ground! Is it because of the whole amazon HD-DVD promo for 8 HD-DVD movies? Do these freebies count toward their sales ranks? Anyway, considering the sale-a-thon I'm kinda shocked that they could catch up so much (well on amazon only anyway). Check it out at http://amazon.highdefdigest.com/, click on custom graphs and pull back for the last 2 days.

There has been a strange HD DVD surge at Amazon. I was checking things out at eProductWars, and it tells the same story. What is even stranger is how the blu line has barely budged in the past couple of days. Maybe most people bought there blu's outside Amazon. I know I did. We will just have to see how the week's numbers look.

In regards to 300, looks like HD DVD is falling. Smallville is still less than Blu. Ditto for Planet Earth.