http://hd.engadget.com/2008/05/02/nielsen-videoscan-high-def-market-share-for-week-ending-april-27/ Engadget HD Comments for Nielsen VideoScan High-Def market share for week ending April 27th, 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/2008/05/02/nielsen-videoscan-high-def-market-share-for-week-ending-april-27/http://hd.engadget.com/2008/05/02/nielsen-videoscan-high-def-market-share-for-week-ending-april-27/May 2nd 2008 10:14PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2008/05/02/nielsen-videoscan-high-def-market-share-for-week-ending-april-27/http://hd.engadget.com/2008/05/02/nielsen-videoscan-high-def-market-share-for-week-ending-april-27/
Just PRINT THE FACTS, BR is at about 0.6% market share overall, not this fairy flossed result, why do you have to print this crap, 0.6%, the truth doesn't hurt, just print it!
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Engadget isn't putting those plots together. It is Nielsen. You know, the most trusted statistics/ratings company in the world.

Any moron can look at the graph and see the footnote under it to realize that we're comparing BR's top 20 to DVD's top 20. Most people agree that that is a fair comparison. We've even got a listing of the total BR sales numbers this week...so things are really very clear to anybody who goes beyond looking at the pretty graphs and reads 4 lines of text. You'll notice that none of your theoretical "blu faithful" are in here saying how great these numbers are...

Do you really think that there's anything to be gained from a comparison of the total BR sales to the total DVD sales? If BR's got 500 titles available, and DVD's got 1,000,000 (many of which can be had for under $5 in the WalMart bargain bin), then the result will of course be skewed away from BR...but that won't be a measure of CONSUMER INTEREST anymore, will it?

No, it won't. It'll be a measure that's more indicative of the numbers of titles available in each format.

Further: all those $5 15-year-old movie bargain-bin DVD sales will be counted just the same as a new title that's $20-$30 on either format...so even more meaning will be lost (since they're counting volume sales in the pie charts).

So, sure, they could report that DVD sold 200x more disks than BR...but that'd be practically the same as saying "DVD sold 1000 copies of Jurassic Park this week, and BR sold zero!!!!!!" See how meaningless that is? Well, then again, maybe that sort of thing would make you happy...you'd finally have your "cold hard facts" stating that BR can't sell any movies.

If you've got any reasonable explanations as to why you think CONSUMER INTEREST would be measured by counting EVERY DVD sale and comparing it to the sales of the few titles available on BR, please feel free to explain...]]>May 2nd 2008 11:26PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2008/05/02/nielsen-videoscan-high-def-market-share-for-week-ending-april-27/http://hd.engadget.com/2008/05/02/nielsen-videoscan-high-def-market-share-for-week-ending-april-27/
Hemmy, I'm not angry because its blu, I'm angry because this site is misrepresenting the facts, what possible difference could the truth make, other than making blu zealots such as yourself feel warm and fuzzy.]]>May 2nd 2008 11:57PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2008/05/02/nielsen-videoscan-high-def-market-share-for-week-ending-april-27/http://hd.engadget.com/2008/05/02/nielsen-videoscan-high-def-market-share-for-week-ending-april-27/
If *you* get out your glasses and read, that's exactly what EQC *wrote* and what everyone already knows:

(EQC) "Any moron can look at the graph and see the footnote under it to realize that we're comparing BR's top 20 to DVD's top 20."


And no, the figures don't make me feel "warm and fuzzy". That is a psychological defense mechanism you're exhibiting.
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The only people who don't get it are people that want Blu-Ray to fail.
No good reasons are even presented and they derail any possible constructive communication from occuring; its getting really old.
E-ED won't ban these few repeat idiots because it causes more posts, what they don't realize is you can get this info elsewhere and if the posts remain this stupid, they will lose people's interest in coming to E-HD.]]>May 3rd 2008 8:49AMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2008/05/02/nielsen-videoscan-high-def-market-share-for-week-ending-april-27/http://hd.engadget.com/2008/05/02/nielsen-videoscan-high-def-market-share-for-week-ending-april-27/May 3rd 2008 10:49AMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2008/05/02/nielsen-videoscan-high-def-market-share-for-week-ending-april-27/http://hd.engadget.com/2008/05/02/nielsen-videoscan-high-def-market-share-for-week-ending-april-27/
Not to insult you but it obvious you don't understand statistics. How could you possibly compare DVD with over 1,000,000 available titles vs 500 Bluray titles? or a format that's been available for 10 yrs vs 2 yrs?The numbers would be grossly skewed. The only way to do this is to compare the top 20 to get a fairly reasonable reading of the market.


EQC - Well said...

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http://www.blu-ray.com/movies/movies.php?show=comingsoon

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Just thinking about the large number of releases in June and their coinciding with new players and Father's day makes me think a major promotional campaign is going to hit at the same time.

Wonder what will happen...]]>May 3rd 2008 4:26AMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2008/05/02/nielsen-videoscan-high-def-market-share-for-week-ending-april-27/http://hd.engadget.com/2008/05/02/nielsen-videoscan-high-def-market-share-for-week-ending-april-27/May 3rd 2008 11:14AMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2008/05/02/nielsen-videoscan-high-def-market-share-for-week-ending-april-27/http://hd.engadget.com/2008/05/02/nielsen-videoscan-high-def-market-share-for-week-ending-april-27/
Your review shows this phrase: "once in for all". The correct wording of this phrase is "once AND for all" Phonetically they do sound alike but there's quite a difference in meaning between them.

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"grammer" is spelled GRAMMAR


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