81:19 Nielsen/VideoScan Weekly Sales Numbers - Page 319 - Blu-ray Forum

wrnjr · 11-30-2007, 03:35 AM

Good news for the Blu! I hope that this keeps up for the rest of the year, as many have stated defore me.

Here's a story for you: My brother-in-law bought one of those $98.00 HD-DUD players. Went on and on about it over Thanksgving while he and my sis were visiting here in B'ham. Then I showed him Cars, the Rat, and 2001 on my PS3...

He bought a 60gig PS3 @ Best Buy on Black Friday and 10 Blurays!

I asked him what he was going to do with is A2 player: "Collect dust" was his reply.

You gotta love that type of reaction to Blu!

quetzalcoatl · 11-30-2007, 03:35 AM

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Originally Posted by Joe Cain

Which speaks volumes for Best Buy's share of the HDM market, doesn't it?

Not to mention how many PS3s were sold?

Kind of proves the artice from about 2 months ago talking about HDM in gereral. That listed Best Buy as number 1 with all other lagging well behind.

darinp2 · 11-30-2007, 05:11 AM

Remember the article or blog that said Toshiba told the Weinsteins that Warner would be switching to HD DVD exclusively after the beginning of the year? As I said before, I wouldn't be surprised if somebody from Toshiba did claim that (just like many athletes claim they are going to win some game). But I bet they didn't expect to get trounced like that during Black Friday week either. It is now up to them to turn it around (and of course for the Blu-ray camp to try to slam the door completely on them). I do expect the HD DVD camp to try some more things over the next few weeks, so the Blu-ray side still needs to stay on their toes.

--Darin

vladittude0583 · 11-30-2007, 05:29 AM

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Originally Posted by wrnjr

Good news for the Blu! I hope that this keeps up for the rest of the year, as many have stated defore me.

Here's a story for you: My brother-in-law bought one of those $98.00 HD-DUD players. Went on and on about it over Thanksgving while he and my sis were visiting here in B'ham. Then I showed him Cars, the Rat, and 2001 on my PS3...

He bought a 60gig PS3 @ Best Buy on Black Friday and 10 Blurays!

I asked him what he was going to do with is A2 player: "Collect dust" was his reply.

You gotta love that type of reaction to Blu!

They still have the 60-GB over at your Best Buy there?

Papi4baby · 11-30-2007, 05:47 AM

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Originally Posted by Seretur

Innerloop -- Yeah, but then they would need to reencode their transfers to a higher bandwidth, and with Warner, the overall HDM front-runner, not even bothering to do that, how could Uni justify the expense?

We might have to do with low bitrate crap for the first year or so, once the good people of Universal make the decision.

And that will be one of the more bitter casualties of this particular war.

Well my friend they can keep them, i didn't get into BD for crap transfers, i want the best possible video and audio. That's why i dont WB tittle anymore.

Quote:

Originally Posted by wrnjr

Good news for the Blu! I hope that this keeps up for the rest of the year, as many have stated defore me.

Here's a story for you: My brother-in-law bought one of those $98.00 HD-DUD players. Went on and on about it over Thanksgving while he and my sis were visiting here in B'ham. Then I showed him Cars, the Rat, and 2001 on my PS3...

He bought a 60gig PS3 @ Best Buy on Black Friday and 10 Blurays!

I asked him what he was going to do with is A2 player: "Collect dust" was his reply.

You gotta love that type of reaction to Blu!

like you said, got to love it.

aphex · 11-30-2007, 05:49 AM

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Originally Posted by vladittude0583

They still have the 60-GB over at your Best Buy there?

We have it at mine too, since it's the same price as the 80gb you get a free game and bd if you buy one.

Grisle · 11-30-2007, 05:57 AM

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Originally Posted by aphex

We have it at mine too, since it's the same price as the 80gb you get a free game and bd if you buy one.

I was able to buy one at BB and return it, but they let me keep the Rebate receipt which allowed me to get the 5 free BDs offer.

roachxp · 11-30-2007, 06:08 AM

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Originally Posted by quetzalcoatl

Kind of proves the artice from about 2 months ago talking about HDM in gereral. That listed Best Buy as number 1 with all other lagging well behind.

But Walmart accounts for 40% of all DVD sales and everyone else lags behind. Too bad their number aren't counted in Videoscan.

aphex · 11-30-2007, 06:12 AM

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Originally Posted by roachxp

But Walmart accounts for 40% of all DVD sales and everyone else lags behind. Too bad their number aren't counted in Videoscan.

Walmart doesn't even sell close to 40% of highdef discs. more like 10%. Best buy probably has 40% of the bd/hddvd market

w_tanoto · 11-30-2007, 06:25 AM

can anybody confirm that the number stated in blu-ray.com article about black friday sales (72%) is this week's figure that is supposed to come out today?

blitz6speed · 11-30-2007, 06:29 AM

at this point in the game, walmart likely sells less then 2% of HD Discs. Most walmarts have about 30 movies in total. They dont hold a candle to the likes of Best Buy, Frys, and Circuit City.

quetzalcoatl · 11-30-2007, 07:03 AM

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Originally Posted by roachxp

But Walmart accounts for 40% of all DVD sales and everyone else lags behind. Too bad their number aren't counted in Videoscan.

Here is the artice.
http://www.videobusiness.com/article/CA6487731.html

And it includes Walmart in it and they are one of them in the pack.

Iron Man · 11-30-2007, 07:33 AM

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Originally Posted by w_tanoto

can anybody confirm that the number stated in blu-ray.com article about black friday sales (72%) is this week's figure that is supposed to come out today?

I'm pretty sure 72.6% or 73% is the number

Grubert · 11-30-2007, 09:41 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by roachxp

But Walmart accounts for 40% of all DVD sales and everyone else lags behind. Too bad their number aren't counted in Videoscan.

Let

B = HDM percentage at Best Buy
A = HDM percentage at amazon
W = HDM percentage at Wal-Mart
C = HDM percentage at Circuit City
T = HDM percentage at Target
O = HDM percentage at other retailers

B + A + W + C + T + O = 100

B >> A > W > C > T

If W = 40 then B > 40 and A > 40. Therefore B + A + W > 100 which is an impossibility.

Reductio ad absurdum rocks.

Wal-Mart HDM percentage must be under 20%.

Grubert · 11-30-2007, 09:48 AM

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Originally Posted by stockstar1138

well vgcharts (i know, not perfect at all) is reporting PS3 sold 174k last week, so i'd expect bby to maybe to have sold 15-20% of those, so the open season numbers should be 35kish. die hard is around 100k, so blu is at 135k right there I figure everything else on that list did between 8k-15k, so for the week blu-ray did around 200k. Which means HD DVD did about 70k. 70:200 is looking pretty bad for hd dvd.

75K HD actually (200 * 27.4/72.6).

Also consider that amazon might have 10K- 15K HD DVD players last week. That's not too unrealistic considering they were #1 in electronics, ahead of the ipods and zunes, and that about 80K players have been sold after the Wal-Mart weekend. amazon gave three free HD DVD movies, which would be about 30K-45K

So using your own 75:200 figures, and subtracting freebies on both sides, we might have 45 HD: 165 BD really bought and paid for.

w_tanoto · 11-30-2007, 09:49 AM

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Originally Posted by Iron Man

I'm pretty sure 72.6% or 73% is the number

so we don't really looking forward to a new number being released today?

GregBlu5 · 11-30-2007, 09:58 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Grubert

Let

B = HDM percentage at Best Buy
A = HDM percentage at amazon
W = HDM percentage at Wal-Mart
C = HDM percentage at Circuit City
T = HDM percentage at Target
O = HDM percentage at other retailers

B + A + W + C + T + O = 100

B >> A > W > C > T

If W = 40 then B > 40 and A > 40. Therefore B + A + W > 100 which is an impossibility.

Reductio ad absurdum rocks.

Wal-Mart HDM percentage must be under 20%.

I really don't believe that when someone is about to make a major purchase of a 1080p HDTV and a Hi Def player such as a Blu-ray, they'd think of going into a Wal-Mart. (Even a Target that I go to regularly didn't have a single HDTV that was better than 780p a couple months back.)

So, they might buy a nicely discounted PS3 or S300 and get some free movies along with it, or a cheap HD player with a bunch of free movies in and out of the box, from a Wal-Mart. But buying regular priced Blu-ray or HD movies there on a consistent basis? I doubt it.

I think there's not only the math, but also a certain logic, behind your numbers above regarding Wal-Mart and how much of an impact they actually have on the high end, Hi Def market, at this time.

-Greg

GregBlu5 · 11-30-2007, 10:01 AM

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Originally Posted by w_tanoto

so we don't really looking forward to a new number being released today?

They will very likely be a confirmation of what we now already know. But still we can see the other charts and look for YTD and SI numbers, which could have ticked up a point or so because of this, and previously good numbers.

-Greg

dobyblue · 11-30-2007, 11:20 AM

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Originally Posted by roachxp

But Walmart accounts for 40% of all DVD sales and everyone else lags behind. Too bad their number aren't counted in Videoscan.

I'm sorry, but you clearly don't know what you're talking about.

This is High Def Media we're dealing with, not DVD.

Blu Titan · 11-30-2007, 11:41 AM

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Originally Posted by w_tanoto

so we don't really looking forward to a new number being released today?

Not for a weekly number, but YES for the YTD and SI numbers. As well as the top HD sellers for the week, and the related percentages

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11-30-2007, 03:35 AM	#6361
wrnjr Member Member since:Nov 2007 Location:West Boo-foo, Alabama Blu-ray reviews:1	Good news for the Blu! I hope that this keeps up for the rest of the year, as many have stated defore me. Here's a story for you: My brother-in-law bought one of those $98.00 HD-DUD players. Went on and on about it over Thanksgving while he and my sis were visiting here in B'ham. Then I showed him Cars, the Rat, and 2001 on my PS3... He bought a 60gig PS3 @ Best Buy on Black Friday and 10 Blurays! I asked him what he was going to do with is A2 player: "Collect dust" was his reply. You gotta love that type of reaction to Blu!

11-30-2007, 05:11 AM	#6363
darinp2 Expert Member Member since:May 2007	Remember the article or blog that said Toshiba told the Weinsteins that Warner would be switching to HD DVD exclusively after the beginning of the year? As I said before, I wouldn't be surprised if somebody from Toshiba did claim that (just like many athletes claim they are going to win some game). But I bet they didn't expect to get trounced like that during Black Friday week either. It is now up to them to turn it around (and of course for the Blu-ray camp to try to slam the door completely on them). I do expect the HD DVD camp to try some more things over the next few weeks, so the Blu-ray side still needs to stay on their toes. --Darin

11-30-2007, 06:25 AM	#6370
w_tanoto Blu-ray Samurai Top contributor Member since:Jul 2007 Location:Hatfield, UK / Jakarta, Indonesia Blu-ray collection:37 Blu-ray reviews:47	can anybody confirm that the number stated in blu-ray.com article about black friday sales (72%) is this week's figure that is supposed to come out today?

11-30-2007, 06:29 AM	#6371
blitz6speed Blu-ray Guru Member since:Oct 2006 Location:Anaheim Hills, CA Trading Score:8	at this point in the game, walmart likely sells less then 2% of HD Discs. Most walmarts have about 30 movies in total. They dont hold a candle to the likes of Best Buy, Frys, and Circuit City.

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