The percentage of returned gadgets that have nothing wrong with them.
Of the $13.8 billion worth of returned products in 2007, only 5 percent were because gadgets were actually broken, according to a 2008 study.
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I just bought Appaloosa on DVD, that is a darn good Western. I see Blu-Ray is back down to 13% this week. At this rate, it won't even reach 25% until Thanksgiving!
Back down? Wasn't long ago being over 10% was a good week.. I think as long as stay above that doing fine... I think when 007 comes out it will get close to 20%...say 18%.
Since this past thanksgiving was around 10% going up to 25% would be great...but I bet by Christmas it's close to 30%
Quit kidding yourselves.
It's only a real 4.25% - and even that's so long as there's a bigger seller like Iron Man & Batman TDK to spike sales.
@MFM,
Care to supply numbers and a link to support you claim?
Who cares if big action movies sell better...I bet Batman DVD out sold Mama Mia DVD just like the BD counter parts did....and just like it happened in theaters too.
Sure, it was carried here on EngadgetHD afterall - despite a years worth of weekly Nielson 12%+ BS.
"Blu-ray software shipments grew ......to 63.2 million units in 2008, from 18 million units in 2007, DEG said.
DVD shipments also were down during the year, declining to 1.4 billion units, an almost 15% drop from 2007 unit shipments
http://www.engadgethd.com/2009/01/08/blu-ray-moved-63-2-million-units-in-2008
http://www.videobusiness.com/article/CA6627437.html?nid=3511
The actual release from DEG says DVD sold 1.407 billion to Blu-ray's 63.154 million
http://www.dvdinformation.com/News/press/CES2009yearEnd.htm
So it turns out I was wrong, it's not 4.25% it's 4.45%. Apologies.
But the point & general idea stands.
Forget the laughably delusional BS about 12%, 13%, 20%, 25% or 30%.
Unless you see everything Blu-ray did this year (including matching the to-date record Iron Man and Batman TDK sales numbers) you aren't likely to see much more 5%.
The fanboys element can fool themselves as much as they like but Blu-ray has absolutely not taken off this year and anything significant happening in 2009 (thanks to the coming recession - bye bye Circuit City, you are merely the 1st to go in 09) is very much doubtful.
Thanks for the laugh and not providing the facts on weekly numbers there MFM.
Good call MFM, it's amazing that even the regulars here who know better get taken in by the BDA BS and start quoting the BS as fact.
It's like the old adage, if you keep telling a lie long enough, sooner or later everyone, including the person telling the lie, starts to believe it to be true.
MFM,
So DVD sales dropped 15% but blu ray sales went up 350% and this is bad for blu ray.
You are right that weekly percentage did throw me off I was looking at it going from 7% to 15% and thinking "wow sale are doubling" but now I see last year they more then tripeled.
Thanks for the irrelevant drivel MFM...this post is about sales dollars of BD's compared to DVD's. Your only response is to link to articles about disc SHIPMENTS (which are clearly different from sales, a fact you may not understand), and revenue that includes not just sales but also rentals (rentals are irrelevant in this discussion).
Why don't you trust the Nielson numbers? Because you're a conspiracy theorist and believe that Nielson is only in business to make people think that BD is becoming popular. Nevermind that ACNielson is one of the largest and most reputable marketing firms in the world. They've obviously decided to throw that all away in an attempt to make BD the default video standard, and why? Just to make you mad I'm sure.
You also seem to be stuck on "to-date" sales of discs in an attempt to keep moving the goalposts. For some reason it seems that you believe the sales patterns of DVD's is wholly different from BD's. Why do you believe that DVD's of any certain title keep steadily selling weeks and months after the release date while BD's are only sold within the first week or two? Don't tell me...it's because they don't publish that information...if they did, you'd have to find another place to move the goalposts to.
The other thing you're stuck on is sales totals for the year with absolutely no regard for trend. Sales at the end of 2008 (and going in to 2009 so far) are trending triple, quadruple and above where they were just at this time last year. DVD is actually trending downward. If BD sales continue their upward trend, they'll easily total $1.5 to $2.0 billion...perhaps more, and that'll represent a much larger piece of the total media pie. There's nothing niche about that kind of revenue.
I'm also rather bored of your impending doom and gloom prophecies. Where did you get your finance/economics degree from? There is no "coming recession"....the recession is already here and has been for well over a year, making the growth of BD that much more impressive. Recessions start before anyone knows it....they're driven by lagging indicators. They also end before anyone knows it. I'm not saying that it will end soon, but a lot of the current theories out there have this one ending sometime this year. Circuit City going out of business has a very minimal impact on BD sales...that company was in trouble long before the current recession...this just sped up their fate.
So, go back to the drawing board and try again to discredit the success of BD. I'd wish you luck, but I'm sick of hearing from you, so I won't.