Let the hive mind of Engadget get that for you.
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I hate this BS percentile margins represented every week, why cant this site just grow some balls and just say it how it is, why does it have to be made pretty, to make all the blu faithful feel warm and fuzzy?? , it makes me sick!
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!
angry red nerd is angry.
Gus: what do you mean when you say "this site"???
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...
EQC, this site IS FALSLY representing the numbers. If you get your magnifying glass out and read the fine print, these figures are based the top 20 movies only, hence we get a much higher and FALSE report.
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.
"If you get your magnifying glass out and read the fine print, these figures are based the top 20 movies only"
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.
hddvd sucks
Gus, stop being such a dummy. Home Media Magazine gathers these stats, not EngadgetHD. Presumably they gather the top 20 because they are most indicative of where most sales are going each week.
EQC,
You've said what I've been saying the last few weeks.
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.
god damn gus. we already have too much of that from truth teller. dont be so stupid like him.