sulimo Posted April 9, 2007 Posted April 9, 2007 A rather interesting High Def Digest article. http://www.highdefdigest.com/news/show/564 You know...even if the Nielsen figures only represent half the US market, I'm rather surprised how low some of those figures are.
MELso Posted April 9, 2007 Posted April 9, 2007 Jeepers. Even though it's an article based in Sony spin (less than 30% of the shipped copies of Casino Royale actually sold, and why was the report based around the week that the only real 'must have' Blu-ray-exclusive title was released?), there are some scary numbers in the report. 1) A Casino Royale-inspired spike notwithstanding, the trend shows both Blu-ray and HD-DVD are plateauing in sales (Blu-Ray at a higher level about 2:1 of that of HD-DVD). 2) Only two titles sold more than 2000 copies in the week in question. 3) Overall, only a very few titles have sold more than 5000 copies. If sales remain this weak, I suspect it will not take long for some studios to start questioning why they are devoting resources to the production of HD discs...
sulimo Posted April 9, 2007 Author Posted April 9, 2007 Jeepers. Even though it's an article based in Sony spin (less than 30% of the shipped copies of Casino Royale actually sold, and why was the report based around the week that the only real 'must have' Blu-ray-exclusive title was released?), there are some scary numbers in the report. Sony trying to make the best of rather bad data from Nielsen. And what Sony actually published has figures for a fairly wide period. Well...October '06 through to mid-March.
sulimo Posted April 9, 2007 Author Posted April 9, 2007 If sales remain this weak, I suspect it will not take long for some studios to start questioning why they are devoting resources to the production of HD discs... Yeah. I wonder how this compares to sales of downloads from iTunes and the Xbox download service.
MELso Posted April 9, 2007 Posted April 9, 2007 Hmmm - I own 0.16% of all copies of Black Rain, 0.09% of all copies of The Deer Hunter, 0.05% of all copies of Reds and 0.07% of all copies of The Sting in circulation... NB - I only own one copy of each of the films in question...
Tweet Posted April 10, 2007 Posted April 10, 2007 HD is here to stay, regardless of whether disc sales have plateaued or not. The PS3 was the driver for BR movies but that novelty may be wearing off and the PS3 could be finding another role as a game machine for PS2 games. HD DVD is essentially a movie format with dedicated players, but as Toshiba is the sole manufacturer, keeping up with demand must be stretching their capacity to manufacture units. This limiting of stock availability must in turn reflect on disc sales for HD DVD, which would only allow for a slow rise anyway, thus HD DVD promotions have purposely been low key. How's that song go again ? ........" Nice and easy does it, every time. " C.M
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