Dont get carried away and announce the death of DVD just yet. Sales increased by over 7% and total spending is just over $8 million? Why dont you release actual unit sales numbers which actually tell the amount of discs sold rather than all these blown up percentage figures? With even sony now jumping on the downloads bandwagon with the ps3 and even their tv's its hard to see any average user willing to pay the high prices for br discs and players.
one, engadget doesn't come up with these numbers, Nielsen does and it's posted in Home Media Magazine. Bitch to those people about how you think the survey should be run, please. BTW, you know what Nielsen does? Statistics. That's their business. Out of curiosity, what's your line of work?
two, the percentage comparison of DVD vs. BD in the middle of the chart is listed as being * UNIT VOLUME, which means the numbers shown are based on the number of "units sold" boys and girls.
I swear.
As for the rest of your post (about prices and people may not be willing to buy something something), you might have a point, but Blu-ray is the only place to get 1080p video and uncompressed or at least very high-quality audio, and I'm of the opinion there will always be people willing to pay for that (or at least marketed into thinking that they want it). It's really just that simple.
It doesn't make any difference whether it's dollars or units if you look at the final "DVD rose by this amount, Blu-ray rose by this" figures. Well, ok, all the Blu-ray disc manufacturers could add 10% to the costs of their discs and thus make it appear as if BD sales increased by 10%, but there's no good reason for them to do so: indeed, DVD prices are unlikely to get lower, but BD discs are likely to lower in price over the next few months.
So, in practice, the complaint doesn't stick. This is a good week for Blu-ray sales. It's the first week in a month and a half though, and the general trend over the last three months - a few blips notwithstanding - is for BD to grow at a slower rate than DVD. Unless we have a few weeks of this, I wouldn't see it as a trend.
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Dont get carried away and announce the death of DVD just yet. Sales increased by over 7% and total spending is just over $8 million? Why dont you release actual unit sales numbers which actually tell the amount of discs sold rather than all these blown up percentage figures? With even sony now jumping on the downloads bandwagon with the ps3 and even their tv's its hard to see any average user willing to pay the high prices for br discs and players.
one, engadget doesn't come up with these numbers, Nielsen does and it's posted in Home Media Magazine. Bitch to those people about how you think the survey should be run, please. BTW, you know what Nielsen does? Statistics. That's their business. Out of curiosity, what's your line of work?
two, the percentage comparison of DVD vs. BD in the middle of the chart is listed as being * UNIT VOLUME, which means the numbers shown are based on the number of "units sold" boys and girls.
I swear.
As for the rest of your post (about prices and people may not be willing to buy something something), you might have a point, but Blu-ray is the only place to get 1080p video and uncompressed or at least very high-quality audio, and I'm of the opinion there will always be people willing to pay for that (or at least marketed into thinking that they want it). It's really just that simple.
It doesn't make any difference whether it's dollars or units if you look at the final "DVD rose by this amount, Blu-ray rose by this" figures. Well, ok, all the Blu-ray disc manufacturers could add 10% to the costs of their discs and thus make it appear as if BD sales increased by 10%, but there's no good reason for them to do so: indeed, DVD prices are unlikely to get lower, but BD discs are likely to lower in price over the next few months.
So, in practice, the complaint doesn't stick. This is a good week for Blu-ray sales. It's the first week in a month and a half though, and the general trend over the last three months - a few blips notwithstanding - is for BD to grow at a slower rate than DVD. Unless we have a few weeks of this, I wouldn't see it as a trend.