[Posted May 9th 2008 10:46PM]

I certainly hope the whiners (all two of them) are satisfied with the statistics now.

You've got everything there now: total dollars spent on DVD sales and total dollars spent on Blu-Ray.

There's also still the "top 20" comparison which everybody understood and most of us (two whiners excepted) thought was fair. You know, since it's not reasonable to compare "total sales" when the entrained format has so many more movies available, and BD has less than 600. And, you know, because comparing number of disks sold between a format that offers $3 bargains at WalMart and one selling movies in the $12-$25 doesn't quite make sense.

Looky there, though, whiners! The money spent on BD's is actually about 7% of the money spent on DVD's....not the 0.5% you thought it would be. See how that top-20 comparison wasn't so horribly flawed? Do you get it now? Do you see?


Or maybe you still want absolute numbers...because you need something to complain about. Maybe you can say that you *know* in your little heart that BD's are way expensive...especially if you're comparing new $35 MSRP BD titles (which any normal person can find for $20) to $5 DVD's out of Wal-Mart's bargain bin. So OMG WTF BBQ, those $7 million in BD sales is only like 25 disks...and the $100 million spent on DVD's has got to be at least 100 million disks!!!! LOOK LOOK Blu-Ray is failing!

Or, you know, you could admit you can't do math, admit you know nothing about statistics/ratings, and admit that most of all, you don't know more than f'ing Nielsen on these subjects.

[Jove (Unverified) Posted May 10th 2008 10:28AM]

perfectly said... lets see what they complain about. probably the amount of unnesesary energy spent on the factories to create blu ray discs and its contribution to global warming or something like that...