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selnor on 19 September 2009
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Vetteman94 said:
selnor said:
Vetteman94 said:
@selnor

what those numbers also dont show is total media sales and DVD are way down from last year while Blu-ray is way up from last year. Plus earlier this year they changed the way they track the Blu-ray to DVD sakes ratio. They went from revenue of the Top 20 to total revenue for the week. you should take a look at the Blu-ray sales tracking thread I have been updating on vgchartz. Cause to say that Blu-ray is struggling is just being mis-informed.


I explined why it's innacurate to take in the whole Blu Ray range in my above post. Same week releases for DVD and Blu Ray is declining in marketshare for BluRay. It's the only accurate guage. It is not accurate to include sales of films on BluRay as they are only at most 4 years old. Whereas DVD's will be 12+ years old at the most. If you cannot see why it's inaccurate to take all BluRay media into marketshare analysis then there is no point continuing further with my discussion.

Films released side by side right now in the top 20 ( which is how Blu-raystats work ) is the only way to guage current marketshare of public buying Blu Ray films.

Blu Ray owners are buying back catalogs. Whereas DVD owners already own them. Thats where your thread has a problem.

Its only innaccurate because you arguement fails because of it, and you dont like that.  If it was such an innacurate way of tracking marketshare why did the number one source for home media sales information change to Total Revenue instead of Top 20 revenue?  Because it didnt accurately reflect the market thats why.   Because basically what you are saying is that not one person who still buys DVDs on a regular basis goes back and gets an older movie that was released 5+ years ago.  Which is complete BS.    Both Blu-ray and DVD owners are buying back catalogs, thinking otherwise is being ignorant.

What? Innacurate because my argument fails.

I'l explain. Twister on DVD came out in late 90's on DVD. Everyone who wants Twister on DVD already has it, bar a few people still not got DVD player yet. Now for example BluRay comes out later than 2006. Now, of course Twister will sell well on BluRay because of the new adopters rebuying now on BluRay. But to see accurate marketshare you need to take into account all the Twister sales for DVD since it was released. Because there will be noone buying it now. Then it will give you an accurate marketshare. The only way to tell is to guage the marketshare off of new films released side by side on DVD and Bluray. That is the accurate marketshare. Because thats all DVD will sell now becasue everyone already owns the older films. You see?