Blu-ray widens US disc sales lead

[SomethingForKate]

http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2007/12/03/us_hd_sales/

Blu-ray Disc player owners bought more discs during the US Thanksgiving holiday period than their HD DVD-owning counterparts did, numbers from market watcher Nielsen VideoScan reveal.

Some 72.6 per cent of all HD discs purchased during the period were BDs, while 27.4 per cent were HD DVDs, according to Nielsen figures relayed by the US Home Media Magazine.

That's down from the 37.5 per cent media sales share HD DVD recorded for Q3 as a whole.




The HD DVD camp likes to portray consumers of its favoured format as being more interested in movies than the other lot's users are, but when it comes down to it, it's about bums* on seats, and like it or not, Blu-ray is shifting more units than HD DVD is.

Such is the numerical superiority of PlayStation 3s out there, that even though HD DVD owners are (probably) more dedicated movie buyers than the average BD machine owner, Blu-ray wins the numbers game.

Last week, the HD DVD Promotional Group said sales of HD DVD players to date have passed the 750,000 mark - an increase of more than 400 per cent since June.


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[mystiksuicide]

This has already been reported but it's good to hear it again.

[darkpoet25]

There have been many posts already, but it doens't hurt to throw more salt on an already open wound.

[tiger roach]

WTF is the deal with the vulture symbol on that graph?

[JonD7]

w00t! haha thats awesome!

[beavis667]

That's one angry vulture.

[hc666]

Originally Posted by beavis667

That's one angry vulture.

Looks like the bad guy from Dark Crystal :P

This week is going to be bad for HD DVD... barely any releases yet again.... tons from BD....

[Sonny]

.....Nuts on there chin.........

[richteer]

Originally Posted by tiger roach

WTF is the deal with the vulture symbol on that graph?

That's the Register's (UK online high tech mag) logo. The Register is known in some circle as "El Reg".

[Maximus]

Originally Posted by richteer

That's the Register's (UK online high tech mag) logo. The Register is known in some circle as "El Reg".

Legendary website!

El Reg is the UK's equivalent of ArsTechnica but a bit less techy and a bit more newsy.

[Elandyll]

The Graphic is sortof misleading as it looks like they just put a dot on Q1, one on Q2 and Q3, and just drew a line from there (negating all events in between), but why such a large dump from Q2 to Q3?
Hopefully Q4 will show a trend going back up...

[hardcore_canadian]

Originally Posted by Elandyll

The Graphic is sortof misleading as it looks like they just put a dot on Q1, one on Q2 and Q3, and just drew a line from there (negating all events in between), but why such a large dump from Q2 to Q3?
Hopefully Q4 will show a trend going back up...

yeah, there is no irregularities, just a straight line graph. like back in grade 3!

[darinp2]

Originally Posted by SomethingForKate

That's down from the 37.5 per cent media sales share HD DVD recorded for Q3 as a whole.

I don't recall seeing that figure before. That would be 1.67:1 for Q3 and it looks like Q4 is going better for Blu-ray than that so far. If Blu-ray ends up with a better ratio for Q4 than Q3 it will take away the talking point that I'm sure many HD DVD fans have been hoping they could use - that that software ratio was getting better for HD DVD. If Q4 is better than Q3 for Blu-ray as far as software sales ratio then that will be a pretty good accomplishment after losing Paramount and Dreamworks in Q3.

Note: I wonder if they arrived at the 37.5 for Q3 for HD DVD just by taking one million and six hundred thousand, even though those might have been rounded to the most significant digit.

--Darin