Blu-rays sale percentage tracking

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johnsobas said:

ssj12 said:

This thread is to track the weekly sales percentages posted by Neilson VideoScan for Blu-ray vs HD-DVD and Blu-ray vs DVD. Blu-ray vs DVD average life to date (ALTD) totals are done by me as a track of the average of the % since this began.

 

3/23: Blu-ray 88% HD-DVD 12% LTD: 67/33 DVD 94% Blu-ray 6% ALTD: 94/6 - Source

3/30: Blu-ray 84% HD-DVD 16% LTD: 67/33 DVD 92% Blu-ray 8% ALTD: 97/3 - Source

4/6: Blu-ray 64% HD-DVD 36% LTD: 67/33 DVD 96% Blu-ray 4% ALTD: 97/3 - Source

 

 

misleading title, misleading first post, misleading thread. Nowhere in the title or start of the thread does it even say that it's only the top 20 titles. I can't believe you're so brainwashed to think it's only viable to compare the top 20 and anything below that doesn't matter. I'm sure every title out of the top 20 of blu-ray is selling at or near triple digets and that's exactly why they close to do this misleading comparison.

 I can't believe this has to be said, but duh...............There aren't nearly as many titles available in Blu-Ray back catalogs as there are for DVD, so obviously it doesn't make sense to compare all sales vs all sales.  What we want to see is how new releases for one format stack up against new releases for the other, to notice trends that way.

And, outside the top 20 but within Blu-Ray's catalog...yeah, Blu-Ray sales are way low, but DVD sales are so much lower than top-20 DVD sales that Blu-Ray may blow DVD away.  There's a smaller percentage of old movies that no one cares about on Blu-Ray than there are on DVD....

This is a fine metric to judge trends.