Posted by asjbiotek on 02/01/07 05:58

More independent data showing Blu-ray widening its lead over HD-DVD.
Btw, there are now 2 Blu-ray titles in the top 100 of amazon.com, the
first time this probably happened to either format (Casino Royale
(exclusive to Blu-ray) & The Departed)

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"The first official retail tracking data from Nielsen VideoScan seems
to show Blu-ray Disc outselling HD-DVD in unit software sales by a
more than 2 to 1 margin, and the gap is widening. According to data
reported in Home Media Retailing for the week ending 1/7/07, Year-to-
Date tracking indicated that for every 47.14 HD-DVDs sold there were
100 Blu-ray Disc titles sold. Just a week later, ending 1/14/07, the
same YTD tracking indicated just 38.36 HD-DVDs sold for every 100 Blu-
ray Discs sold. What's more, tracking by Nielsen VideoScan since the
inception of both formats appears to indicate that Blu-ray Disc is
quickly erasing the sales lead HD-DVD enjoyed as a result of launching
months earlier in 2006. On 1/7, HD-DVD's lead was 100 discs for every
85.05 Blu-ray Discs sold, while just a week later on 1/14, that lead
had been reduced to 100 HD-DVDs for every 92.40 Blu-ray Discs sold."

http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?t=798272




On Jan 22, 5:27 pm, asjbio...@gmail.com wrote:
> Well, here's more proof the end for HD-DVD is fast approaching.
>
> In addition to amazon.com, other sales channels are reporting much
> stronger blu-ray sales, even though HD-DVD got out first in 2006.
>
> http://www.videobusiness.com/index.asp?layout=article&articleid=CA640...
>
> for online retailer DVDEmpire:
>
> 1. Sales of Blu-ray discs are now stronger than sales of HD-DVD titles.
> For the week including Tuesday, Jan. 16, DVDEmpire.com noted that 57.7%
> of its high-def sales were BD and 42.3% were HD DVD.
>
> 2. there are already more titles in Blu-ray than HD-DVD....Through Jan.
> 16, DVDEmpire.com counted 190 HD DVD releases and 203 BD releases.
>
> And it'll just get worse as more people buy playstation and more
> blu-ray titles come out. Just this week, i already got the recent Ice
> Age 2 in blu-ray (and it's 20th century fox, so NO HD-DVD copy!)

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