they can do things to prolong the war, but BR's victory seems inevitable, at this point. For a time, I wasn't actually sure - after the pretty awesome start HD DVD had and the slow start BR had, it seemed like it could be either way, but after CES 07 and PS3 effect really hit (december/jan), I don't think HD DVD has much of a chance of winning. Looks more and more like BR is the one that will take the market. You can, if you wish, see that reflected in the likes of Amazon sales also, but these figures give a more concrete indication of what's going on overall. There's a very marked swing in sales momentum in BD's favour now. If anything Fox may have been conservative in their sales projections for BD vs HD-DVD. Notice also how much the lifetime gap closed in just one week (by over seven percentage points). Blu-ray is outselling HD-DVD in those first two weeks of the year by 2.6:1. Now, year to date, 100 BD titles have been sold for every 38.36 HD-DVD titles sold i.e. ![]() The figure on the left shows relative lifetime sales to date. YTD is year to date - up to the 7th, BD sold 100 titles for every 47.14 HD-DVD titles sold. Nielsen/Videoscan comprehensively covers the US home video market.Īnyway, without further ado, for the week ended January 7th 2007: No more do we have to rely solely on Amazon sales rankings to try and get an idea of the relative performance of Blu-ray and HD-DVD - has published figures from Nielsen/Videoscan.
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