HD-DVD sales figures jump explained

[Jack Torrance]

Evidently there was some sort of "jump" in the sales of HD-DVD discs last week... but according to The Digital Bits, this is why:

"Finally today, we've been informed by industry sources that the jump in the HD-DVD numbers in the Nielsen VideoScan data we posted yesterday (from Home Media Retailing) was not due to an increase in HD-DVD sales, but rather because the HD-DVD numbers up to that point did not include sales of HD-DVD/DVD Combo Format discs. Those numbers have now been added into the data as of the week ending 1/27. Just FYI."

Now isn't this absolutely unfair in that you cannot conclusively prove whether someone was buying it for DVD or for HD-DVD?

Ultimately the figures don't make a bit of difference as BD is still crushing HD-DUD, but damn it... I want it to be even more of a land slide!