HD DVD almost even for Weekly Sales stats week ending 4/22

[bruce]

Originally Posted by KenB

These are the Nielsen numbers for this week. I'm sure there was an effect from the 4/15 buy day, exacerbated by the fact that HD DVD had a better release schedule for the week. Releases improve in BD's favor for the next couple of weeks, after which the BD release schedule is much superior thru mid-June.

Never a dull moment

I thought that Nielsen did not count Amazon numbers, if so, I believe a lot on what got ordered were pre-orders ( for example, remember how high the Matrix went on that day vs. now ) and Nielsen does not count pre-orders.