DVD Empire is 79.46% Blu for the week.

[thebluemax]

I thought "Children of..", Happy Feet, were selling well at Amazon. Feet is still ahead of GO BLU at Amazon?

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Originally Posted by thebluemax

I thought "Children of..", Happy Feet, were selling well at Amazon. Feet is still ahead of GO BLU at Amazon?

At this moment it is 50 and 51 for the two.

Look what happened when Amazon put 46 BD titles on sale. The top 10 average became 35. And, that looks to have been all caused by less than 10K in units selling.

HD DVD has so much pent up demand for titles from the previous 2-3 months, I'm surprised it isn't doing a heck of a lot better.

Gary

[Blu4ever]

I cannot wait until the first studio changes sides from neutral to Blu Ray.

[BTBuck1]

Originally Posted by Blu4ever

I cannot wait until the first studio changes sides from neutral to Blu Ray.

Or the last studio to change from HDDVD to BD...that'd work!

[Unkn0wn47]

Originally Posted by BTBuck1

Or the last studio to change from HDDVD to BD...that'd work!

Yep! That would be a perfect gift for Christmas. In addition to another 20 Blu-ray movies and a few PS3 games. I have been saving up for about a month; going to double my Blu-ray collection next week.

[ra1024]

One thing to keep in mind is the sales rank history. Comparing Happy Feet side by side, HD came out lower around the low 30's while BR came out around the mid 40's. They're both around 50 right now which means BR has only dropped about 5 while HD has dropped about 20.

If you look at the Departed, BR has been fluctuating from 120s to 180s during the last week while HD has been as low as 1000 and high as 240. They don't have sales rank history back to the release date but I believe these both were down around 20-30 so you're seeing the same thing. Both start strong but HD drops off at a faster rate.

I think the more consistent sales rank history for BR titles suggest a growing user base while the spikey nature of HD indicates a smaller base that buys at once and then has a much smaller demand.

[Deciazulado]

Originally Posted by ra1024

One thing to keep in mind is the sales rank history. Comparing Happy Feet side by side, HD came out lower around the low 30's while BR came out around the mid 40's. They're both around 50 right now which means BR has only dropped about 5 while HD has dropped about 20.

If you look at the Departed, BR has been fluctuating from 120s to 180s during the last week while HD has been as low as 1000 and high as 240. They don't have sales rank history back to the release date but I believe these both were down around 20-30 so you're seeing the same thing. Both start strong but HD drops off at a faster rate.

I think the more consistent sales rank history for BR titles suggest a growing user base while the spikey nature of HD indicates a smaller base that buys at once and then has a much smaller demand.

This chart is a few days old I should get a new one but oh well

[Deciazulado]

Here's a current, and wider, view

[GaS]

I really don't understand the point of picking single titles to compare format sales (especially Happy Feet) when we get videoscan numbers every week.

[ra1024]

Well Videoscan will show discs sold so the HD camp is saying because their studios were in a lull period, their sales will be lower and BR isn't really doing better. By comparing titles released on both formats at the same time, we get a better idea of which one is truly growing faster.

If the HD argument were true, then we should expect to see the sales gap narrow in July when HD will have a lot or releases. I don't think this will happen because on per title basis, BR seems to have a growing consumer base while HD-DVD seems to have a mostly stagnant base.

[Blue]

Originally Posted by GaS

I really don't understand the point of picking single titles to compare format sales (especially Happy Feet) when we get videoscan numbers every week.

There was also an argument from the HD-DVD fanboi's that as nearly all Blu-ray players were PS3 the sales of happy feet would be poor on Blu-ray (as the assumed demographic of the PS3 is not interested in that sort of title) so therefore any studio releasing the genre of movie should release onto HD-DVD - I guess mainly aimed at Disney. The results seem to be about equal, so there are a lot of PS3's not fitting the demographic or many more Blu-ray players out there. What ever the argument - it looks they will be off to find another way to twist the numbers.