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Format is officially dead and has 3 spots in top 10 and it takes no. 1 spot of all HD titles.

Just shows you, when sales stopped, even at a pitiful state HD DVD is in, they still can't break away.

It's so funny.

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...it's funny that even with fire sales, 3 great titles that I'd love to own on Blu, a lack of hot Blu titles for that week, that your dead format can't pull any closer, even just for the moment (even if anyone cared about the rankings at this point).

It's done dude. Hang up your HD-DVD hat and just enjoy your movies. You really need to let go. ]]>Mar 14th 2008 12:30PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2008/03/14/nielsen-videoscan-high-def-market-share-for-week-ending-march-9t/http://hd.engadget.com/2008/03/14/nielsen-videoscan-high-def-market-share-for-week-ending-march-9t/Mar 14th 2008 12:52PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2008/03/14/nielsen-videoscan-high-def-market-share-for-week-ending-march-9t/http://hd.engadget.com/2008/03/14/nielsen-videoscan-high-def-market-share-for-week-ending-march-9t/Mar 14th 2008 12:59PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2008/03/14/nielsen-videoscan-high-def-market-share-for-week-ending-march-9t/http://hd.engadget.com/2008/03/14/nielsen-videoscan-high-def-market-share-for-week-ending-march-9t/Mar 14th 2008 1:04PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2008/03/14/nielsen-videoscan-high-def-market-share-for-week-ending-march-9t/http://hd.engadget.com/2008/03/14/nielsen-videoscan-high-def-market-share-for-week-ending-march-9t/Mar 14th 2008 2:08PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2008/03/14/nielsen-videoscan-high-def-market-share-for-week-ending-march-9t/http://hd.engadget.com/2008/03/14/nielsen-videoscan-high-def-market-share-for-week-ending-march-9t/
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I'm not delusional at all. I have a good Blu-ray library as well. But, again, it's interesting to see some titles of a dead format still making it to the top.]]>Mar 14th 2008 1:49PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2008/03/14/nielsen-videoscan-high-def-market-share-for-week-ending-march-9t/http://hd.engadget.com/2008/03/14/nielsen-videoscan-high-def-market-share-for-week-ending-march-9t/
I'd love to see some actual sales numbers......my bet is both sets of actual numbers are rather small and weedy.

The coming US recession & European slowdown are going to just add to Blu-rays problems.
Couldn't be happening to a more deserving case.
It's just karma getting them back for the over-priced, DRM-ridden & incomplete mess that it is :P]]>Mar 14th 2008 1:57PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2008/03/14/nielsen-videoscan-high-def-market-share-for-week-ending-march-9t/http://hd.engadget.com/2008/03/14/nielsen-videoscan-high-def-market-share-for-week-ending-march-9t/
I'm really not one for name calling, but there really is something wrong with you dude.]]>Mar 14th 2008 2:45PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2008/03/14/nielsen-videoscan-high-def-market-share-for-week-ending-march-9t/http://hd.engadget.com/2008/03/14/nielsen-videoscan-high-def-market-share-for-week-ending-march-9t/
You need you eyes testing or your comprehension skills seriously upgraded if you reckon I've said anything like "now the 'coming recession' is blu-ray's fault".

BTW the word is that Toshiba 'lost' around $1 billion not 10
(which, btw, is nothing like as bad as 'a certain CE companies' losses over the last 5 yrs, actually).

.....and don't give me that 'I'm not one for name-calling' - as you then start name-calling.

There sure seems to be a hell of a lot wrong with your reading skills, comprehension abilities & financial knowledge.]]>Mar 14th 2008 2:51PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2008/03/14/nielsen-videoscan-high-def-market-share-for-week-ending-march-9t/http://hd.engadget.com/2008/03/14/nielsen-videoscan-high-def-market-share-for-week-ending-march-9t/Mar 14th 2008 2:05PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2008/03/14/nielsen-videoscan-high-def-market-share-for-week-ending-march-9t/http://hd.engadget.com/2008/03/14/nielsen-videoscan-high-def-market-share-for-week-ending-march-9t/Mar 14th 2008 2:10PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2008/03/14/nielsen-videoscan-high-def-market-share-for-week-ending-march-9t/http://hd.engadget.com/2008/03/14/nielsen-videoscan-high-def-market-share-for-week-ending-march-9t/
Yes it's very funny,Now go back to your hd-dvdead grave you pathetic loser.]]>Mar 14th 2008 2:20PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2008/03/14/nielsen-videoscan-high-def-market-share-for-week-ending-march-9t/http://hd.engadget.com/2008/03/14/nielsen-videoscan-high-def-market-share-for-week-ending-march-9t/
Not much to draw upon here though. There is a large user base of HD DVD (1Million+ players, including the add on), and they didn't just all trash/sell their player when Toshiba anounced they were out. Some did , not all.
So, connect the dots between a weak BR release week (only big new title being 30 Days of Night), a very Strong HD DVD release lineup (between Beowulf, American Gangster and the critically acclaimed Into the Wild), and a population literally starved for films (HD DVD users), and you get this.
No real surprise (except the lack of any bargain bin HD DVD title in the top 10). Next week will be a slaughter though (Week of No country for Old Men, I Robot, ID4, Dogma, Appleseed, Gattacca & Hitman among others).]]>Mar 14th 2008 2:50PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2008/03/14/nielsen-videoscan-high-def-market-share-for-week-ending-march-9t/http://hd.engadget.com/2008/03/14/nielsen-videoscan-high-def-market-share-for-week-ending-march-9t/Mar 14th 2008 3:02PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2008/03/14/nielsen-videoscan-high-def-market-share-for-week-ending-march-9t/http://hd.engadget.com/2008/03/14/nielsen-videoscan-high-def-market-share-for-week-ending-march-9t/
The means of signal delivery has nothing whatsoever to do with resolution (other than, ironically enough, to make people's SD TV resolution look as good as it can be and therefore further increase public satisfaction rates with the broadcast SD TV image)

It's that kind of either misunderstood or outright disinformation that turns off the mass-market
(and if you honestly think Blu-ray holds any great appeal there right now you are day-dreaming).]]>Mar 14th 2008 3:08PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2008/03/14/nielsen-videoscan-high-def-market-share-for-week-ending-march-9t/http://hd.engadget.com/2008/03/14/nielsen-videoscan-high-def-market-share-for-week-ending-march-9t/
The digital switch over is a perfect tie-in for marketing. Yes many people and probably most will just use the cheap digital converter but many will see this as an "excuse" to upgrade their TV system and to capitalize on that, they BDA needs to be out in front showing off HD movies right along side those HD TV's that people will be looking at when they exercise their "excuse".

Don't pretend that the digital switch over isn't being used as an excuse to push HDTV's. Stores already are positioning it this way (some even misleadingly so). Many people will gladly use this as an excuse. This has nothing technically do with it but all about perception and marketing/positioning. With HDTV's becoming more mainstream and more HD content flowing, we will see this year explode and partly because of interest being generated by the (even if unrelated) digital switchover....]]>Mar 14th 2008 3:24PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2008/03/14/nielsen-videoscan-high-def-market-share-for-week-ending-march-9t/http://hd.engadget.com/2008/03/14/nielsen-videoscan-high-def-market-share-for-week-ending-march-9t/
there will still be standard definition signals, too. it's just that the government wants to auction off the analog spectrum. you'll need a d-to-a converter box for many of the major channels that you get know. and there are some low-power (and mostly lower profile) tv stations that will still be broadcasting in analog.

http://www.dtvtransition.org/]]>Mar 15th 2008 1:52AMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2008/03/14/nielsen-videoscan-high-def-market-share-for-week-ending-march-9t/http://hd.engadget.com/2008/03/14/nielsen-videoscan-high-def-market-share-for-week-ending-march-9t/
Apparently you haven't been paying attention. I didn't say that people had to do it, I said it would be used as an excuse, marketed by TV makers as "Hey, airwaves are going digital, why not upgrade your TV too!", it will happen. Local news a few weeks ago ran a story of shoppers going TV shopping because of the switchover, some didn't know about the fact that it only affects over the waves others said it was a good time to get a new TV....

Mark my words, the switchover *will help* drive HDTV sales this year *even though* there is no technical need to get an HDTV because of it....]]>Mar 15th 2008 10:23AMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2008/03/14/nielsen-videoscan-high-def-market-share-for-week-ending-march-9t/http://hd.engadget.com/2008/03/14/nielsen-videoscan-high-def-market-share-for-week-ending-march-9t/Mar 16th 2008 5:16PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2008/03/14/nielsen-videoscan-high-def-market-share-for-week-ending-march-9t/http://hd.engadget.com/2008/03/14/nielsen-videoscan-high-def-market-share-for-week-ending-march-9t/Mar 14th 2008 4:36PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2008/03/14/nielsen-videoscan-high-def-market-share-for-week-ending-march-9t/http://hd.engadget.com/2008/03/14/nielsen-videoscan-high-def-market-share-for-week-ending-march-9t/Mar 14th 2008 5:23PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2008/03/14/nielsen-videoscan-high-def-market-share-for-week-ending-march-9t/http://hd.engadget.com/2008/03/14/nielsen-videoscan-high-def-market-share-for-week-ending-march-9t/The blu horde screamed for reds death because the market was fractured and we needed one unified format, now the excuse is lack of titles, whats the next excuse?
The red crowd replied with we need 2 formats for market place competition and cheap pricing to stimulate growth, now what have we got?
A unified market with prices spiraling upwards and it still cant beat a dead format! It shows how stupidly small the market is and how wrong the BDA have got it.
How can BR ever gain market dominance over DVD when it is only compatible with HD TV'S so by definition is all ready niche. Add to that poorly specified players and on todays market ridiculously overpriced hardware and software, and please don't tell me they are compatible with DVD players 10 years ago, nothing else in todays market is on the same level as 10 years ago why should BR be! All electronics are much cheaper then 10 years ago and the products are far more advanced.

Sony IS driving the BR bus and the other CE companies are just along for the ride, this IS just another sony blunder, consumers constantly reject sonys stupendously stupid attempts at market dominance through their monumentally ridiculous strategies, this BR disaster is just another in a long line of failures.
No doubt the usual blind blu wankers will walk all over this post, but there are none so blind as those who will NOT see, take the blinkers off fools.
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Why the Hell not? After all, you gladly cheered on each week when the competition was BD vs. HD-DVD and your preferred format was ahead. The point has been made again and again that the real competition was never between the two of them but instead it has always been against the pre-existing DVD format. This standard is what BD should always have been measured against and now that HD-DVD is gone, you are just going to pack up and leave rather than expose just how far behind BD is when one compares BD sales vs. DVD?

What a bunch of freaking LOSERS!!! If you truly believe in the purity and dominance of your preferred format, I dare you to post how far behind BD is week after week after week. Its a sucker's bet that there is no way that's happening though. Pathetic. Simply pathetic.]]>Mar 16th 2008 10:39AMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2008/03/14/nielsen-videoscan-high-def-market-share-for-week-ending-march-9t/http://hd.engadget.com/2008/03/14/nielsen-videoscan-high-def-market-share-for-week-ending-march-9t/Someone forgot their happy pills today]]>Mar 16th 2008 4:34AMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2008/03/14/nielsen-videoscan-high-def-market-share-for-week-ending-march-9t/http://hd.engadget.com/2008/03/14/nielsen-videoscan-high-def-market-share-for-week-ending-march-9t/
But even if we wanted to, the raw data isn't available to us from Nielsen to even make such a comparison. If you really think it is worth comparing, email Home Media Magazine, 'cause they're the ones with the raw data.]]>Mar 16th 2008 10:41AMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2008/03/14/nielsen-videoscan-high-def-market-share-for-week-ending-march-9t/http://hd.engadget.com/2008/03/14/nielsen-videoscan-high-def-market-share-for-week-ending-march-9t/
PS JimC - bet that really ticks you off doesnt it - you seem pretty up tight - you must really love blu ray with youre blu ray avatar and all.....heh]]>Mar 16th 2008 8:03AMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2008/03/14/nielsen-videoscan-high-def-market-share-for-week-ending-march-9t/http://hd.engadget.com/2008/03/14/nielsen-videoscan-high-def-market-share-for-week-ending-march-9t/Mar 20th 2008 6:18AM