http://hd.engadget.com/2008/02/29/nielsen-videoscan-high-def-market-share-for-week-ending-february/ Engadget HD Comments for Nielsen VideoScan High-Def market share for week ending February 24th, 2008 http://hd.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://hd.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2009 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://hd.engadget.com/2008/02/29/nielsen-videoscan-high-def-market-share-for-week-ending-february/http://hd.engadget.com/2008/02/29/nielsen-videoscan-high-def-market-share-for-week-ending-february/
I guess if I knew software was going to be entirely discontinued for my HD-DVD player by summer, I'd be buying up all the good movies I could, too. ]]>Feb 29th 2008 4:35PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2008/02/29/nielsen-videoscan-high-def-market-share-for-week-ending-february/http://hd.engadget.com/2008/02/29/nielsen-videoscan-high-def-market-share-for-week-ending-february/Feb 29th 2008 4:58PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2008/02/29/nielsen-videoscan-high-def-market-share-for-week-ending-february/http://hd.engadget.com/2008/02/29/nielsen-videoscan-high-def-market-share-for-week-ending-february/Feb 29th 2008 8:56PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2008/02/29/nielsen-videoscan-high-def-market-share-for-week-ending-february/http://hd.engadget.com/2008/02/29/nielsen-videoscan-high-def-market-share-for-week-ending-february/
*sigh*]]>Feb 29th 2008 4:55PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2008/02/29/nielsen-videoscan-high-def-market-share-for-week-ending-february/http://hd.engadget.com/2008/02/29/nielsen-videoscan-high-def-market-share-for-week-ending-february/Feb 29th 2008 5:06PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2008/02/29/nielsen-videoscan-high-def-market-share-for-week-ending-february/http://hd.engadget.com/2008/02/29/nielsen-videoscan-high-def-market-share-for-week-ending-february/Feb 29th 2008 5:11PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2008/02/29/nielsen-videoscan-high-def-market-share-for-week-ending-february/http://hd.engadget.com/2008/02/29/nielsen-videoscan-high-def-market-share-for-week-ending-february/Hi-Def: AG 100: MC 62]]>Mar 1st 2008 8:02AMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2008/02/29/nielsen-videoscan-high-def-market-share-for-week-ending-february/http://hd.engadget.com/2008/02/29/nielsen-videoscan-high-def-market-share-for-week-ending-february/
Engadget isn't the one who maintains this data, so asking them to provide DVD vs Blu Ray numbers isn't going to get anywhere. Engadget gets the numbers from Nielson Videoscan, so if you want to complain to someone, go to them.]]>Feb 29th 2008 11:46PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2008/02/29/nielsen-videoscan-high-def-market-share-for-week-ending-february/http://hd.engadget.com/2008/02/29/nielsen-videoscan-high-def-market-share-for-week-ending-february/
Engadget isn't the one who maintains this data, so asking them to provide DVD vs Blu Ray numbers isn't going to get anywhere. Engadget gets the numbers from Nielson Videoscan, so if you want to complain to someone, go to them.]]>Feb 29th 2008 11:46PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2008/02/29/nielsen-videoscan-high-def-market-share-for-week-ending-february/http://hd.engadget.com/2008/02/29/nielsen-videoscan-high-def-market-share-for-week-ending-february/Feb 29th 2008 5:20PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2008/02/29/nielsen-videoscan-high-def-market-share-for-week-ending-february/http://hd.engadget.com/2008/02/29/nielsen-videoscan-high-def-market-share-for-week-ending-february/Feb 29th 2008 5:26PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2008/02/29/nielsen-videoscan-high-def-market-share-for-week-ending-february/http://hd.engadget.com/2008/02/29/nielsen-videoscan-high-def-market-share-for-week-ending-february/
/purple]]>Feb 29th 2008 6:10PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2008/02/29/nielsen-videoscan-high-def-market-share-for-week-ending-february/http://hd.engadget.com/2008/02/29/nielsen-videoscan-high-def-market-share-for-week-ending-february/Feb 29th 2008 6:11PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2008/02/29/nielsen-videoscan-high-def-market-share-for-week-ending-february/http://hd.engadget.com/2008/02/29/nielsen-videoscan-high-def-market-share-for-week-ending-february/
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No class Paramount will probably sell it's wildly overpriced Star Trek season 1 on us BluBoys next, as if that will help push the format forward.

Warner Brothers is the only classy studio involved in this whole format mess.]]>Feb 29th 2008 5:29PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2008/02/29/nielsen-videoscan-high-def-market-share-for-week-ending-february/http://hd.engadget.com/2008/02/29/nielsen-videoscan-high-def-market-share-for-week-ending-february/Feb 29th 2008 5:41PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2008/02/29/nielsen-videoscan-high-def-market-share-for-week-ending-february/http://hd.engadget.com/2008/02/29/nielsen-videoscan-high-def-market-share-for-week-ending-february/Feb 29th 2008 6:24PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2008/02/29/nielsen-videoscan-high-def-market-share-for-week-ending-february/http://hd.engadget.com/2008/02/29/nielsen-videoscan-high-def-market-share-for-week-ending-february/HD DVD lost this week. 1 title in the number spot a victory does not make.

Some of you people need to get a clue.]]>Feb 29th 2008 6:57PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2008/02/29/nielsen-videoscan-high-def-market-share-for-week-ending-february/http://hd.engadget.com/2008/02/29/nielsen-videoscan-high-def-market-share-for-week-ending-february/Mar 4th 2008 12:59PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2008/02/29/nielsen-videoscan-high-def-market-share-for-week-ending-february/http://hd.engadget.com/2008/02/29/nielsen-videoscan-high-def-market-share-for-week-ending-february/
I also don't get why the previously HD DVD exclusive studios would drop the format so quickly. They are already set up to manufacture HD DVDs. I don't imagine that it would cost them much to continue. I'm sure that there would be enough sales to keep HD DVD production going along with Blu-ray production.

That way people who are planing to adopt a format would know that Blu-ray has won and to get all of the movies you would need to buy a blu-ray player, but those of us who already bought HD DVD players would still be able to buy movies. Obviously there is still a demand. As long as there is a demand they should continue to release movies.]]>Feb 29th 2008 5:36PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2008/02/29/nielsen-videoscan-high-def-market-share-for-week-ending-february/http://hd.engadget.com/2008/02/29/nielsen-videoscan-high-def-market-share-for-week-ending-february/Feb 29th 2008 6:21PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2008/02/29/nielsen-videoscan-high-def-market-share-for-week-ending-february/http://hd.engadget.com/2008/02/29/nielsen-videoscan-high-def-market-share-for-week-ending-february/
My guess is it's Paramount's way of trying to force HD DVD buyers over to Blu-ray as soon as possible. In a way it makes sense too, because now they can concentrate 100% on Blu-ray, but it does suck for the remaining HD DVD buyers.]]>Feb 29th 2008 11:01PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2008/02/29/nielsen-videoscan-high-def-market-share-for-week-ending-february/http://hd.engadget.com/2008/02/29/nielsen-videoscan-high-def-market-share-for-week-ending-february/Feb 29th 2008 11:07PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2008/02/29/nielsen-videoscan-high-def-market-share-for-week-ending-february/http://hd.engadget.com/2008/02/29/nielsen-videoscan-high-def-market-share-for-week-ending-february/Mar 2nd 2008 4:27AMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2008/02/29/nielsen-videoscan-high-def-market-share-for-week-ending-february/http://hd.engadget.com/2008/02/29/nielsen-videoscan-high-def-market-share-for-week-ending-february/And The Hd-Dvd Dead Start To Walk In Their Masquerade
There's No Escapin' The Jaws Of The Alien This Time
(They're Open Wide)
This Is The End Of Your Life


'Cause This Is Thriller, Thriller Night
And No One's Gonna Save You From The HD Dvd Beast About
Strike
You Know It's Thriller, Thriller Night
You're Fighting For Your Life Inside A Killer, Thriller
Tonight.....]]>Feb 29th 2008 5:43PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2008/02/29/nielsen-videoscan-high-def-market-share-for-week-ending-february/http://hd.engadget.com/2008/02/29/nielsen-videoscan-high-def-market-share-for-week-ending-february/It just goes to show, all studios should have been purple from the start and let the consumer decide the outcome, any format relying on a games console for long term success is taking a huge gamble.

The problems are, BR players way to expensive, discs way to expensive, DVD is still so damn good, there isn't the need to change like there was VHS V DVD, DVD is available to every TV on the planet, BR is available to about 5% of TVs.
IMO the only way forward was with a cheap format, one that people would pick up even if they didn't give a shi* about HD media because it was cheap enough, why not buy it?

BR is a dead man walking, enjoy your niche market blu trolls, I am enjoying watching BR tank.

Unless of course sony withholds content from consumers like they did with HD DVD, withhold DVD and force consumers blu, of course sony wouldn't do that though, geez that would be anti consumer.

HD DVD first after everything that has happened and 23% market share, ROFLMFAO!!]]>Feb 29th 2008 6:17PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2008/02/29/nielsen-videoscan-high-def-market-share-for-week-ending-february/http://hd.engadget.com/2008/02/29/nielsen-videoscan-high-def-market-share-for-week-ending-february/
you must have a degree in crappola!]]>Feb 29th 2008 6:29PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2008/02/29/nielsen-videoscan-high-def-market-share-for-week-ending-february/http://hd.engadget.com/2008/02/29/nielsen-videoscan-high-def-market-share-for-week-ending-february/Maybe it's you with the degree in crappola.]]>Feb 29th 2008 6:37PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2008/02/29/nielsen-videoscan-high-def-market-share-for-week-ending-february/http://hd.engadget.com/2008/02/29/nielsen-videoscan-high-def-market-share-for-week-ending-february/
You expect everyone on earth to go buy a Blu-ray player this week? It took DVD a couple years to get to a real good market penetration and affordable price. Check this out I can make baseless claims about a new technology too. Slingbox HD will reach a higher market penetration compared to Cable STBs. because streaming and DD are the future. OOOOOO! Amazing. Now can you refute that? No. I'm HD4ME and I have a sandy V cause HD-DVD lost, whine, whine. I have an idea STFU and come back in a year or two when you have real proof one way or another.]]>Feb 29th 2008 6:59PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2008/02/29/nielsen-videoscan-high-def-market-share-for-week-ending-february/http://hd.engadget.com/2008/02/29/nielsen-videoscan-high-def-market-share-for-week-ending-february/
Is Blu-Ray ready for mainstream adoption now? No, of course not. It's only a two-year-old format. But it will be adopted eventually. And you know what will drive the sales of Blu-Ray? The tremendous surge in sales for HDTVs. As more and more consumers purchase HDTVs and HD service, they will want HD discs.]]>Mar 1st 2008 12:07AMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2008/02/29/nielsen-videoscan-high-def-market-share-for-week-ending-february/http://hd.engadget.com/2008/02/29/nielsen-videoscan-high-def-market-share-for-week-ending-february/Mar 2nd 2008 12:29AMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2008/02/29/nielsen-videoscan-high-def-market-share-for-week-ending-february/http://hd.engadget.com/2008/02/29/nielsen-videoscan-high-def-market-share-for-week-ending-february/
Prices drop as selection increases and the format enters the mainstream. It happened for DVD and it will happen for Blu Ray. There are over a dozen CE firms, hundreds of retailers and every single studio competing for your blu ray bucks. Prices are dropping through competition. Which is the way it should be, not through someone like Toshiba massively subsidizing its players.

Clearly Toshiba horribly misjudged its strategy by chasing a market that wasn't there yet and losing piles of cash. Blu Ray players are already quite affordable for the early adopters who want them and they'll be affordable to the mainstream before the year is out.]]>Mar 2nd 2008 4:46AMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2008/02/29/nielsen-videoscan-high-def-market-share-for-week-ending-february/http://hd.engadget.com/2008/02/29/nielsen-videoscan-high-def-market-share-for-week-ending-february/Mar 4th 2008 10:37AMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2008/02/29/nielsen-videoscan-high-def-market-share-for-week-ending-february/http://hd.engadget.com/2008/02/29/nielsen-videoscan-high-def-market-share-for-week-ending-february/]]>Mar 1st 2008 5:14PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2008/02/29/nielsen-videoscan-high-def-market-share-for-week-ending-february/http://hd.engadget.com/2008/02/29/nielsen-videoscan-high-def-market-share-for-week-ending-february/Feb 29th 2008 7:04PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2008/02/29/nielsen-videoscan-high-def-market-share-for-week-ending-february/http://hd.engadget.com/2008/02/29/nielsen-videoscan-high-def-market-share-for-week-ending-february/Feb 29th 2008 7:22PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2008/02/29/nielsen-videoscan-high-def-market-share-for-week-ending-february/http://hd.engadget.com/2008/02/29/nielsen-videoscan-high-def-market-share-for-week-ending-february/Feb 29th 2008 7:35PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2008/02/29/nielsen-videoscan-high-def-market-share-for-week-ending-february/http://hd.engadget.com/2008/02/29/nielsen-videoscan-high-def-market-share-for-week-ending-february/Cut it anyway you want, a dead format trumped blu ray this week, lol!
]]>Feb 29th 2008 8:04PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2008/02/29/nielsen-videoscan-high-def-market-share-for-week-ending-february/http://hd.engadget.com/2008/02/29/nielsen-videoscan-high-def-market-share-for-week-ending-february/Feb 29th 2008 9:35PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2008/02/29/nielsen-videoscan-high-def-market-share-for-week-ending-february/http://hd.engadget.com/2008/02/29/nielsen-videoscan-high-def-market-share-for-week-ending-february/Feb 29th 2008 8:12PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2008/02/29/nielsen-videoscan-high-def-market-share-for-week-ending-february/http://hd.engadget.com/2008/02/29/nielsen-videoscan-high-def-market-share-for-week-ending-february/Feb 29th 2008 8:48PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2008/02/29/nielsen-videoscan-high-def-market-share-for-week-ending-february/http://hd.engadget.com/2008/02/29/nielsen-videoscan-high-def-market-share-for-week-ending-february/Feb 29th 2008 10:33PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2008/02/29/nielsen-videoscan-high-def-market-share-for-week-ending-february/http://hd.engadget.com/2008/02/29/nielsen-videoscan-high-def-market-share-for-week-ending-february/
Let's see how the numbers are on March 14th. :)]]>Mar 1st 2008 3:29AMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2008/02/29/nielsen-videoscan-high-def-market-share-for-week-ending-february/http://hd.engadget.com/2008/02/29/nielsen-videoscan-high-def-market-share-for-week-ending-february/
I don't know where all this bad feeling comes from... I understand how you and other HD DVD adopters might be upset, but when things don't go your way, which happens often in life, you've just got to brush yourself down and get on with whatever you think is the best for you.

I personally am quite upset for HD DVD adopters - it was a great format that just didn't quite make it due to a number of reasons. I went the path of BD and would also have been very annoyed if my player and discs were deemed "obsolete" and unworthy by the industry. Do you really wish the same fate on your BD counterparts, many of whom you have plenty in common with e.g. the enjoyment of HD movies in your home? I certainly didn't wish it on HD DVD - if there were some way the two formats could co-exist then that would have been great - but apparently that's impossible.

Surely it's in all AV enthusiasts' interests to get behind the remaining HD format? Only then will we have a voice that can be heard by the corporates - consumer demands can and will result in low costs, multi-region players, 1080p extras, etc.]]>Mar 1st 2008 5:02AMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2008/02/29/nielsen-videoscan-high-def-market-share-for-week-ending-february/http://hd.engadget.com/2008/02/29/nielsen-videoscan-high-def-market-share-for-week-ending-february/Mar 1st 2008 8:07AMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2008/02/29/nielsen-videoscan-high-def-market-share-for-week-ending-february/http://hd.engadget.com/2008/02/29/nielsen-videoscan-high-def-market-share-for-week-ending-february/Mar 1st 2008 10:06AMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2008/02/29/nielsen-videoscan-high-def-market-share-for-week-ending-february/http://hd.engadget.com/2008/02/29/nielsen-videoscan-high-def-market-share-for-week-ending-february/Mar 2nd 2008 12:02AMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2008/02/29/nielsen-videoscan-high-def-market-share-for-week-ending-february/http://hd.engadget.com/2008/02/29/nielsen-videoscan-high-def-market-share-for-week-ending-february/Mar 3rd 2008 8:55AMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2008/02/29/nielsen-videoscan-high-def-market-share-for-week-ending-february/http://hd.engadget.com/2008/02/29/nielsen-videoscan-high-def-market-share-for-week-ending-february/Mar 4th 2008 1:05PM