An update on the Blu-ray/DVD war.

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NJ5 said:

Dno said:

NJ5 said:

First of all, is that percentage based on revenue or unit sales?

Second, does that 8% statistic refer to the same thing as the statistics in this thread? If so, that's quite misleading. They're taking the top selling Blu-Ray movies and calculating the percentages of those movies. I don't think I have to explain why those statistics are misleading...

 

 

if more people are buying new releases on Blu-ray and less people are buying them on DVD then its not misleading.... people are buying BD thats what its about. DVD been out forever of you have to only count NEW releases or it makes no sense. Its about BD GROWTH over last year which was what 200%?

Thats what you should be taking from this. BD will be the next media thats pretty much a given at this point.

Where did I say anyhing about new releases? I said "top selling Blu-Ray movies", not "top selling movies". If that's how they're calculating this percentage, it's like me taking the top selling 360 multiplat games and then claiming the 360 has a huge advantage over the PS3.

But again, I'm not sure exactly how these statistics work since I don't care much about the format war.

 

 

NJ5, you're correct. They always only report the number in terms of the top X BR movies compared to DVD.  You have to do analysis (like my post below yours) to try and get the real numbers, and even then it is imperfect at best.