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...
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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...