81:19 Nielsen/VideoScan Weekly Sales Numbers

[cathexist]

86:14

[Imakida]

Originally Posted by stockstar1138

85:15. people seem to be forgetting that you saved 10 dollars when you bought both ratatouille and cars. this wasn't just an amazon promo. cars did very well on amazon pre orders and then moved up even farther on the day of the release (i believe it was near the top 10) not only did ratatouille probably do 150k, but i would beat cars did at least 50k. then we have residual spiderman sales that should cancel out both chuck and larry and transformers combined, so really hd dvd has absolutely nothing countering a massive 200k pixar tag team.

+1 Add the lower priced PS3 and the sunday Bogo sales.

I'll sitck with my 84:16

[stockstar1138]

Originally Posted by Imakida

+1 Add the lower priced PS3 and the sunday Bogo sales.

I'll sitck with my 84:16

i totally forgot about new ps3 owners. that should help with some of the older titles too. im still going to stick to 85:15 as that was kind of optismistic in the first place i fell like.

[stringent]

If Blu hits the over 80s I'll have to celebrate by doing something... Dunno what though. Any ideas?

[badboi]

Originally Posted by stringent

If Blu hits the over 80s I'll have to celebrate by doing something... Dunno what though. Any ideas?

Streak through Hyde Park?

[Jim L]

My guess for today's weekly number will be:

81 : 19

[Jonty]

Originally Posted by Blu-Ray Buckeye

There is no way for an individual week to move either SI or YTD by more than 1 pt... just isn't mathematically possible unless the week had 5 times the normal volume. Even if BD won 100:0 it wouldn't move anything 2 pts.

Sorry to nitpick, but I agree with everything you said until the last point. As you mentioned, significant volume is required to move the SI/YTD numbers 2 points. However, even a ratio of 80:20 could move the numbers 2 points with sufficient volume.

[ikbradley]

Originally Posted by stockstar1138

dude, i don't know where you shop, but i don't know anyone that will take back an opened up disc. once you open up the movie, you can't return it. and i would bet my ps3 more people have bought hd dvd thinking it would work in a dvd player, than uniformed duds buying blu-rays. i would guess that 6-8% of all of HD DVDs business is via dvd people getting screwed over.

Umm... it was in jest. My bad. It will be interesting to see how informed the firesale purchasers actually were.

[The Guardian]

Originally Posted by stringent

If Blu hits the over 80s I'll have to celebrate by doing something... Dunno what though. Any ideas?

Buy 5 more BD movies?

[Rup_Muk]

Originally Posted by Blu-Ray Buckeye

There is no way for an individual week to move either SI or YTD by more than 1 pt... just isn't mathematically possible unless the week had 5 times the normal volume. Even if BD won 100:0 it wouldn't move anything 2 pts.

Just being my old, charming, optimist self...

I'll take a single percentage uptick in YTD and SI... and will be happy. I promise!

Rup.

[stockstar1138]

Originally Posted by ikbradley

Umm... it was in jest. My bad. It will be interesting to see how informed the firesale purchasers actually were.

minus the firsale purchases that were sold to already existing hd dvd owners. i believe the majority of them were vastly uninformed. i think a lot of people bought them only for dvds. i think a lot of people now are po'd when they couldn't get spiderman, ratatouille, cars, pirates, etc., i think a lot of people bought them for hd dvd and when they go to the store and see that they are 29.99 a pop, the might buy one, check it out and probably never buy it again. after all how much better does an hd dvd look on a 720p vizio than an upconverted dvd (then they will come on the internetz and say how both formats aren't that great). we all know that the ppl who bit on the a2s are cheap and most likely don't have decent sets, they are the "wal-mart hdtv shoppers".

[Rob71]

Originally Posted by stringent

If Blu hits the over 80s I'll have to celebrate by doing something... Dunno what though. Any ideas?

Originally Posted by badboi

Streak through Hyde Park?

Originally Posted by The Guardian

Buy 5 more BD movies?

If you do option 1, paint the BR symbol on your back.

I personally would opt for option 2.

forgot my pick 79:21

[Grubert]

I predicted 74:26 back at another site.

[Ispoke]

Originally Posted by badboi

Streak through Hyde Park?

Originally Posted by Rob71

If you do option 1, paint the BR symbol on your back.

He won't have to in this cold weather, he will be blu all over

75:25

[L or S of Perfect?]

80:20


I'd be really surpised if its near the 71:29 for the spiderman week or above 85:15

[wrnjr]

Originally Posted by UTVOL06

75:25 at the lowest and 80:20 at the best.

I was being conservative. I am praying for 80:20 as well.

[gandley]

are we there yet

[stringent]

Originally Posted by Ispoke

He won't have to in this cold weather, he will be blu all over

75:25

LOL! Darn right. Its freezing! Already too many wierdos in Hyde Park. Guess they won't notice another!

[Spankey]

If there is ever an 80:20 split, and studios still see the need for HD-DVD this war will never end. Seriously. How much more does Blu-ray need to prove?

[CptGreedle]

I am routing that this week's numbers for BD are in the 80's!
And next week's numbers are in the 90's!