hd-dvd slapped for weekly sales ending 1/13/08 : 85-15 win for Blue-ray

[seminole2001]

hd-dvd slapped by Blu-ray : Weekly sales ending 1/13/08 : 85-15 win for Blue-ray

Blu-ray Dominates Disc Sales Chart Post-Warner Announcement | High-Def Digest


The Blu-ray camp took a decisive lead in disc sales for the week ending January 13th, the first full week following Warner's announcement that it would abandon its HD DVD support.

Though Blu-ray has outsold HD DVD in overall disc sales by a factor of nearly 2:1 since the start of 2007, last week saw the largest gulf between the two rival formats yet, with Blu-ray commanding an 85% share of all high-def discs sold.


Home Media Magazine is reporting that of the top ten high-def discs sold on either format, not a single HD DVD disc made the list, with the top-selling HD DVD disc ('The Kingdom') moving only one tenth as many units as the best selling Blu-ray title, '3:10 to Yuma.'

While it's too soon to tell whether Warner's announcement had a direct effect on Blu-ray's stronger-than-ever disc sales lead, HD DVD had been holding steady with a relatively strong 39% share of high-def disc sales in the last weeks of the 2007 holiday shopping season.

 

[Ronnie-]

more blu-ray FUD!

 

[meStevo]

Well the numbers only mean so much without knowing how many titles were sold, this has always been the case regardless of how it is interpreted for either side. 85% is good relative to HDDVD, but what if (unlikely) HDDVD sold the same number of discs this week that they did on an average week in December prior to the WB announcement? Maybe BD just had a surge this month thanks to some confidence in a winner so more people took the plunge?

Either way, won't really ever know until we have subsequent weeks....

...and then we take even more guesses.

Anyways, already a thread for these discussions: http://www.satelliteguys.us/hd-dvd-...high-def-disc-unit-sales-digital-bits-13.html

 

[IcEWoLF]

Blu-ray has great titles that came out for them this month, and are still coming out.

 

[allargon]

Blu-ray has great titles that came out for them this month, and are still coming out.

Where? This is the movie snob in me talking not the HD DVD supporter. The whole slate is crap on both formats but HD DVD only has catalog for the most part (White Noise ) which makes it look even worse.

Next month will be interesting with Elizabeth, American Gangster, Beowulf, etc.

 

[JonUrban]

WOW! 85 to 15!!

 

[gadgtfreek]

Where? This is the movie snob in me talking not the HD DVD supporter. The whole slate is crap on both formats but HD DVD only has catalog for the most part (White Noise ) which makes it look even worse.

Next month will be interesting with Elizabeth, American Gangster, Beowulf, etc.

Come on mr negativity, White Noise 2 was da bomb! :neener