Mission: Impossible III sets HD DVD / Blu-ray sales record
By Darren Murph 
posted Nov 10th 2006 2:23AM
posted Nov 10th 2006 2:23AM
While Paramount's Mission: Impossible III didn't make it out on one of those forthcoming three-in-one mega discs, it did get the green light on all three major formats (and a forth, too), and set some records while it was at it. While Tom's personal life has been all but personal, the general public apparently still loves him, crazy antics and all, as studio sources have pegged first-week sales at 3.7 million units, more than either of the two previous releases in the franchise. More importantly, however, is the 20,000 units that were sold on HD DVD / Blu-ray formats, which made it the "the biggest-selling next-gen title since the formats launched. But with quite a few hits slated to hit shelves soon (and during the holiday shopping season, no less), we don't expect this record to stand for too terribly long.
Come one - you know what we want - the HD-DVD BluRay Breakout! How many for each format!?
Yeah why wasn't that included in the post?!!
Apparently the news writers didn’t feel it was important to segregate Blu-ray and HD DVD sales, choosing to lump them together instead as the “HD versions” of the film. After both take off a bit more, we suppose the numbers will begin to gain singular identities rather than being clumped together as one entity.
Well if you look @ amazon sales figures then HD-DVD is doing much better than blurry.
Now before someone posts that amazon sales rankings are not exact it does give us a ballpark figure.
Mission Impossible - Ultimate Missions Collection [Blu-ray]
Price: $69.95
Sales rank: 3532 (#5 among Blu-ray)
Release date: October 30, 2006
Mission Impossible - Ultimate Missions Collection [HD DVD]
Price: $69.95
Sales rank: 499 (#7 among HD-DVD)
Release date: October 30, 2006
Superman Returns [Blu-ray]
Price: $23.95
Sales rank: 1597 (#2 among Blu-ray)
Release date: November 28, 2006
The ranking # is how popular that title is compared to all DVD (SD DVD, HD-DVD, and Bluray). Lower is better, higher is worse. #1 would be the highest selling DVD for that week.
Interesting place to get these figures is:
http://wwww.thedvdwars.com
Some interesting #s:
HD-DVD has more titles for purchase. (97 vs 65)
HD-DVD has more titles (when including presales). (148 vs 94)
HD-DVD has lower (better) avg ranking. (503 vs 2718)
HD-DVD has the best ranked HD title. (Batman begins - 157th)
HD-DVD has more titles in the top 10,000. (96 vs 26)
HD-DVD has more titles in the top 1,000. (10 vs 1)
HD-DVD has lower (better) rank when compared to same title on Blu-ray.
I'll be getting both this movie and the HD DVD on Monday. I can't wait.