Blu-Ray Sales

[ProvenFlipper]

Originally Posted by dialog_gvf

60/40 isn't 2:1 (twice the sales), it is 3:2 (50% more).

It seems a lot of people are under the impression DVD Empire is providing industry statistics, instead of just their own.

Amazon has a sale on. How surprising is it that a competitor will lose sales because of this?

Gary

It seems some people need to go and take Economics 101...

[nhaase]

Originally Posted by buckshot

could it be that the gap in new releases has something to do with this? as far as I knew there are 2 weeks where there are no new BD releases, ending the 13th when casino royal and mr. and mrs. smith come out. i'm getting both of those, plus several from the amazon sale.

This week is the only week with no BR releases. Last week, February 27th, had a few for both formats. So this is the only "dry" week. HD-DVD, on the other hand, has nothing coming out in all of March until the 27th. So no BR releases this week wouldn't enter in to the equation, it's just the sale at Amazon, like everyone has said.

[Slippy]

Week ending 4th March was more than 2:1 in favour of Blu-ray according to Neilsen, looks like DVDEmpire is the last bastion for HD-DVD fans.

[BluFox]

It's really simple, thanks to Amazon's price cuts on BD: the BD buying consumer is overall buying from Amazon and less on DVD Empire!

DVD Empire is lucky to have a couple of hundred of units sales a day on both formats combined, really!!

[THE STUD]

Blu ray sales this week are getting owned, unfortunately, but I"m sure they'll bounce up.

http://www.dvdempire.com/index.asp?u...ite_media_id=0

[Petra]

yeah because Amazon is having 50% off for blu-ray sales...so practically no one is buying blu-ray anywhere but at Amazon

http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.htm...cId=1000062781

[jorg]

Originally Posted by THE STUD

Blu ray sales this week are getting owned, unfortunately, but I"m sure they'll bounce up.

http://www.dvdempire.com/index.asp?u...ite_media_id=0

the dvd empire ranking is only from there site

[GaS]

I don't pay much attention to individual retailer stats anymore due to the fact that we've been getting videoscan data pretty much every week.

[THE STUD]

oh yeah, I forgot that's only their site. Besides, when Casino comes out tuesday, HD DVD can kiss itself goodbye

[jorg]

thhe titles just going to start the wave

[goodstuff]

If IIRC the 3/6 notation is the end day for the compilation of stats. I believe the stats showing the HD-DVD lead were put up on Wed or Thurs indicating only the sales for that short period (one or two days). Here are the current stats as of today:



No HD-DVD wins here

[Shin-Ra]

Better still! Maybe they're not losing so much business after all.

[Sfblups3]

well it was sure fast...... checkec the site today and now it's back up to 61% BD 39% hd-dvd

[Blubaru]

Originally Posted by Sfblups3

well it was sure fast...... checkec the site today and now it's back up to 61% BD 39% hd-dvd

yep

[blublublu]

Originally Posted by Sfblups3

well it was sure fast...... checkec the site today and now it's back up to 61% BD 39% hd-dvd

Such swings suggest that their volume on both formats is low.

[Deane Johnson]

I have to wonder how much longer Toshiba will throw good money after bad and continue to try to get HD-DVD airborne. There's nothing harder to stop than a trend, and the trend certainly has been established.

At this point, I would think the only Toshiba players that would be sold would be those dumped on unsuspecting novices by Best Buy smurfs.

[jorg]

plz be four posting anything els on this remember dvd empire only has stats for there site.(and with the 50% off at amazon for blue no wounder it was so low)

[dialog_gvf]

New data from Nielsen Videoscan (Check inside cover page):

Week ending March 7:

YTD:

Blu-ray: 100
HD DVD: 48.73

SI:

Blu-ray: 100
HD DVD: 91.46

Gary

[theknub]

YTD is absolutely disgusting.

SI is heading in the right direction

[Petra]

......

HD-DuDers got their hopes high on DVDEmpire, but Blu-ray took care of it.....and this is even with the huge 50% blu-ray sale at Amazon

http://www.dvdempire.com/Content/Fea...99365461725310