|  | Posted by Charles Marslett on 01/18/07 03:42 
Salesrank is a ranking, that is, 1 is highest, 10000 is a lot lower,so to make sense in the graphs they plot negative numbers.
 
 The graphs should be done as log plots, at a minimum, since there is a
 whole lot less difference between 500 and 501 than between first and
 second.....
 
 --Charles
 
 On Wed, 17 Jan 2007 18:59:59 -0800, "Bill's News"
 <BillsNews@pcmagic.net> wrote:
 
 >Rob Berryhill wrote:
 >> In article
 >> <1169055879.811124.313750@51g2000cwl.googlegroups.com>,
 >> asjbiotek@gmail.com says...
 >>> With regards to DVD title sales, here is the sales graph from
 >>> amazon.com of HD-HDVD versus BLu-ray sales. HD-DVD had a
 >>> major
 >>> advantage at the beginning (since it started selling players
 >>> much
 >>> earlier), but you can see that Blu-ray is rising much more
 >>> rapidly.
 >>>
 >>> http://www.eproductwars.com/dvd/graphs/salesrank-1-1-recent30.jpg
 >>
 >> Nice try, dipshit:
 >>
 >> http://www.eproductwars.com/dvd/
 >
 >I must be reading this chart wrong?
 >
 >1) Last 24 hours (radio button selection)
 >2) Current leader HD-DVD (headline box)
 >3) BluRay 743.7, HD-DVD 575.9 (salesrank [sic]: a
 >contradiction?)
 >4) All the numbers in the Y axis seem to have minus signs before
 >them and are in descending absolute value.
 >5) According to the key, BR is blue (the larger absolute value)
 >and HD is black, thus the numbers must be negative and it's
 >measuring returns not sales - which is why HD would then be
 >ahead, I guess?
 >
 >Who is eproductwars?  asjbiotek's brother?
 >
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