Blu ray outselling HD DVD 9:1 !!!

http://www.n4g.com/industrynews/News-34490.aspx

 and that gap countinues to widen

http://www.n4g.com/industrynews/News-34490.aspx

and that gap countinues to widen

joevfx

Sheesh, well makes sense, Europe now is buying blu-ray.Flame_Blade88

Good News!

Sheesh, well makes sense, Europe now is buying blu-ray.Flame_Blade88

Just so you guys know, sales are not all that great for either format. Follow the link and you will see what I have always known, the hD/blu ray formats are not taking off in the mass market. I was a little surprised at just how low sales actually are.

And don't buy into 9:2 when your sales are nothing to smile about on either side.

http://www.highdefdigest.com/news/show/Sony/Disc_Sales/Sony_Report_Reveals_First_Look_at_Absolute_Blu-ray_and_HD_DVD_Disc_Sales_Figures/564

Sony Report Reveals First Look at Absolute Blu-ray and HD DVD Disc Sales Figures Mon Apr 09, 2007 at 01:54 AM ET Tags: Disc Sales, Sony (all tags) Thanks to a new research report from Sony, industry watchers are getting their best look yet at hard high-def disc sales numbers from Nielsen VideoScan, including per-title sales figures for high-def discs released on both next-gen formats. Focusing on sales data for the week ending March 18 (the same week that Sony's 'Casino Royale' smashed high-def records by shipping 100,000 units to retail), it should come as no surprise that the VideoScan numbers released by Sony are favorable to the studio, with five of its releases ranking among the top-selling next-gen discs that week.

 The numbers that week were equally as impressive for Blu-ray, which outsold HD DVD by a ratio of 9:2, and dominated the list of top-selling next-gen discs -- the HD DVD edition of 'The Departed' was the only HD DVD disc to appear among the top ten best selling high-def discs. But while abstract ratios and percentages like these have been bandied about for several months now, the Sony report goes one step further, providing the first public release of hard sales figures for HD DVD and Blu-ray discs from Nielsen VideoScan, the home entertainment industry's leading source for competitive sales data.

Among the numbers revealed: as of March 18, VideoScan put the cumulative number of Blu-ray titles sold since the format's inception at 844,000 units, versus HD DVD at 708,600. But perhaps most interesting are the per-title sales numbers for the top ten selling discs across both formats, which are provided both in the form of a weekly tally (again for the week ending March 18), and as year-to-date totals.

While these charts confirm the previously reported strong showings for such A-list titles as 'The Departed' 'Batman Begins' and 'Superman Returns' (with each clocking per-format sales totals since-inception of at least 28,000 units sold), they also demonstrate a very steep drop-off for titles outside of that top rung, with even discs among the top-ten best sellers that week moving fewer than 1000 units apiece: While we should note that the VideoScan numbers are not all-inclusive (for example, they don't include discs sold at Wal-Mart or some online merchants), the lower sales numbers at the bottom end of weekly list and on display elsewhere in the report (where some titles are listed as selling fewer than 200 units since inception) are certainly still a sobering reminder that both formats still have a long way to go in their shared quest to supplant standard-def DVD.

Casino Royale only sold over 28,000 in it's first week. This war hasn't taken off for consumers and we finally have proof. DVD will be around for way too many years to come.

Well DVD didn't replace VHS overnight either.StrifeZephyr

Well DVD didn't replace VHS overnight either.StrifeZephyr

[QUOTE="StrifeZephyr"]Well DVD didn't replace VHS overnight either.mjarantilla

You got to give it to Sony for making a Gaming Console all about movie playback. They are such geniouses. Deihmos

[QUOTE="mjarantilla"][QUOTE="StrifeZephyr"]Well DVD didn't replace VHS overnight either.eclipsed4utoo

sounds awesome

[QUOTE="eclipsed4utoo"][QUOTE="Deihmos"]You got to give it to Sony for making a Gaming Console all about movie playback. They are such geniouses. mjarantilla

[QUOTE="eclipsed4utoo"][QUOTE="Deihmos"]You got to give it to Sony for making a Gaming Console all about movie playback. They are such geniouses. mjarantilla

[QUOTE="eclipsed4utoo"][QUOTE="Deihmos"]You got to give it to Sony for making a Gaming Console all about movie playback. They are such geniouses. mjarantilla

That's why all 80% of the launch 360s broke down which is even worst than the PS2. 

[QUOTE="eclipsed4utoo"][QUOTE="mjarantilla"][QUOTE="StrifeZephyr"]Well DVD didn't replace VHS overnight either.mjarantilla

Well, once HD-DVD is scaled back, then blu-ray will own the HD market.  Digital distribution is still a ways off, so that's not going to impact blu-ray.  Also you said 2 million dvds were sold in the first year and blu-ray and HD-DVD combine to 1.7 million units sold in it's first year.  If blu-ray was not competing against HD-DVD then 2 million BDs units sold would have been close.  This would have happen is that many people would buy blu-ray with out being scared of the outcome of the format war.  

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mjarantilla

you can't sell half of a bluray movie, thats why it said 9:2

only use 4.5:1 only when comparing something that you can actually break down

[QUOTE="Deihmos"]You got to give it to Sony for making a Gaming Console all about movie playback. They are such geniouses. eclipsed4utoo

[QUOTE="mjarantilla"][QUOTE="eclipsed4utoo"][QUOTE="mjarantilla"][QUOTE="StrifeZephyr"]Well DVD didn't replace VHS overnight either.mikeslemonade

Well, once HD-DVD is scaled back, then blu-ray will own the HD market. Digital distribution is still a ways off, so that's not going to impact blu-ray. Also you said 2 million dvds were sold in the first year and blu-ray and HD-DVD combine to 1.7 million units sold in it's first year. If blu-ray was not competing against HD-DVD then 2 million BDs units sold would have been close. This would have happen is that many people would buy blu-ray with out being scared of the outcome of the format war.

[QUOTE="mjarantilla"][QUOTE="eclipsed4utoo"][QUOTE="Deihmos"]You got to give it to Sony for making a Gaming Console all about movie playback. They are such geniouses. mikeslemonade

That's why all 80% of the launch 360s broke down which is even worst than the PS2.

[QUOTE="mjarantilla"][QUOTE="eclipsed4utoo"][QUOTE="Deihmos"]You got to give it to Sony for making a Gaming Console all about movie playback. They are such geniouses. mikeslemonade

That's why all 80% of the launch 360s broke down which is even worst than the PS2.

[QUOTE="eclipsed4utoo"][QUOTE="mjarantilla"][QUOTE="StrifeZephyr"]Well DVD didn't replace VHS overnight either.mjarantilla

Ummm no. DVD sold ~400,000 units in the first 12 months. DVD sales didn't surpass VHS sales until 2003, ~6 years after the format's introducion.

HD DVD WONT LAST THAT LONG BLUE RAY IS THE WAY TO GO

[QUOTE="eclipsed4utoo"][QUOTE="Deihmos"]You got to give it to Sony for making a Gaming Console all about movie playback. They are such geniouses. Deihmos

[QUOTE="mjarantilla"][QUOTE="eclipsed4utoo"][QUOTE="mjarantilla"][QUOTE="StrifeZephyr"]Well DVD didn't replace VHS overnight either.skektek

Ummm no. DVD sold ~400,000 units in the first 12 months. DVD sales didn't surpass VHS sales until 2003, ~6 years after the format's introducion.

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[QUOTE="mjarantilla"][QUOTE="eclipsed4utoo"][QUOTE="Deihmos"]You got to give it to Sony for making a Gaming Console all about movie playback. They are such geniouses. mjarantilla

That's why all 80% of the launch 360s broke down which is even worst than the PS2.

That's the biggest pile of BS I heard for quite some time.... Manufacturers make the consoles according to the specifications laid out by the console maker. It's Sony's design that made the PS3 a durable sturdy well made console and it's M$'s design that made the 360 one of the least durable devices in electronics history..... 

Lets try to understand this PS3 = rushed and 360 = not rushed

so the PS3 is rushed cuz it does not have a good firmwire?

If you are a 360 early adopter you might recall that the dashboard and many of the firmwire features were NOT there and many of the features people brag about were included in updates...much like Sony is doing and what took the 360 a year in updates to achive Sony is doing quite fast, what will happend when Sony catches up?

Why is there a 360 elite? isnt that a sign of a console that is traying to catch up with the competition and its initial realease might have been rushed? 360s bad cooling system is a perfect example of a rushed console along side the fact that the hardware has a tendency to malfuction and give us the lovely ring of death that leads me to think it was not properly tested before a yet againg...rushed launch

In the other hand the PS3 has recived very few complains about crappy hardware that again leads me to belive they actually took their time testing it

and lets not even go into the Blue Ray vs DVD choice to see who was more rushed

http://www.n4g.com/industrynews/News-34490.aspx

 and that gap countinues to widen

joevfx

It was 9:2, but it doesn't really matter since the Blu-Ray and HD-DVD movies are only selling about 1500 copies a week. :lol: No one is buying the movies. The sales suck for both formats. I can see movie studios pulling the plug on both format by this time next year if sales number don't increase.

no wonder i've seen Best buy drop HD DVD movies in half this week, they trying not to get stuck with all that stock.kingrich06

And the next step is to drop HD-DVD stock altogether, the end seems near for HD-DVD. 

[QUOTE="eclipsed4utoo"][QUOTE="Deihmos"]You got to give it to Sony for making a Gaming Console all about movie playback. They are such geniouses. mjarantilla

Both systems were actually rushed. M$ was smart not to include HD-DVD in their system. Even though Sony has over 3 million Blu-Ray players in people homes (that's even more then DVD players in it's first year), the actual movies are selling like crap. Many new releases are only selling about 1500 copies a week. Some are selling less then 1000. Even DVD's sold better then that after 6 months. So it's not all good news.

[QUOTE="joevfx"]

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blackace

It was 9:2, but it doesn't really matter since the Blu-Ray and HD-DVD movies are only selling about 1500 copies a week. :lol: No one is buying the movies. The sales suck for both formats. I can see movie studios pulling the plug on both format by this time next year if sales number don't increase.

[QUOTE="mjarantilla"][QUOTE="eclipsed4utoo"][QUOTE="Deihmos"]You got to give it to Sony for making a Gaming Console all about movie playback. They are such geniouses. mikeslemonade

That's why all 80% of the launch 360s broke down which is even worst than the PS2. 

No, not even close. You sound like an angry fanboy. M$ had problems with this Xbox360 because it was rush and M$ isn't a hardware company. Sony rushed out their hardware before all the diode lasers were ready which caused delays. They also rushed their software tools, which were a mess when the PS3 launched. Many Developers had to delay games when for the updates software.

[QUOTE="mikeslemonade"]

[QUOTE="mjarantilla"][QUOTE="eclipsed4utoo"][QUOTE="Deihmos"]You got to give it to Sony for making a Gaming Console all about movie playback. They are such geniouses. blackace

That's why all 80% of the launch 360s broke down which is even worst than the PS2.

No, not even close. You sound like an angry fanboy. M$ had problems with this Xbox360 because it was rush and M$ isn't a hardware company. Sony rushed out their hardware before all the diode lasers were ready which caused delays. They also rushed their software tools, which were a mess when the PS3 launched. Many Developers had to delay games when for the updates software.

And you would know that those 360s won't continue to break down?  Obviously it wasn't the problem because the PS3 is in good supply everywhere right now.  I rather have a delayed system then have a system that breaks down right after the warranty. You're so conservative for saying that HD-DVD and Blu-ray will be entirely dropped.  You're not even advocate of technology for saying that.